Francis D. Kimball

Francis D. Kimball (* 1820 in New Hampshire , † August 15, 1856 in Columbus , Ohio ) was an American lawyer and politician . He was Attorney General of Ohio in 1856 .

Career

Francis D. Kimball was born in New Hampshire about five years after the end of the British-American War . He received an education as a Whig and an abolitionist . Further details about his youth are not known. In 1842 he moved to Ohio and settled there in Medina County . Kimball was soon elected to the district administrator there. Between 1849 and 1853 he worked as a prosecuting attorney .

Kimball was an advocate of the anti-Nebraska movement in 1854 and a co-founder of the Republican Party . He attended the previous National Convention in Pittsburgh and then the first regular Republican National Convention in Philadelphia , where he contracted an illness which later led to his death. In 1855 he was nominated for the office of Attorney General of Ohio. Kimball won the subsequent election over George Wythe McCook with 168,868 to 132,216 votes. He served as Attorney General from January 14, 1856 until his death on August 15, 1856. Governor Salmon P. Chase then appointed Christopher Wolcott of Summit County to succeed him.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Joseph Patterson Smith: History of the Republican Party in Ohio , Volume 1, Lewis Publishing Company, 1898, pp. 40 and 46
2. ^ History of Medina County and Ohio , Baskin & Battey, 1881, p. 239