John G. Breslin

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John G. Breslin

John G. Breslin (* around 1824 in Lebanon , Pennsylvania , † February 22, 1889 in Huntington , West Virginia ) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ). He was a member of the Ohio General Assembly and was Treasurer of State of Ohio from 1852 to 1856 .

Career

John G. Breslin was born in Lebanon County around 1824 . His parents died when he was about three years old. He was then adopted by a family named McKissen. They moved to Dayton, Ohio when he was a child , where he decided at the age of 12 to go his own way. He moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he began an apprenticeship with Samuel Medary, editor of the Columbus Stateman, a Democratic newspaper. For the next six years he studied alongside his work. In 1842 Colonel Medary received a letter from the Democrats in Tiffin, Ohio, asking if he could recommend a young man to run a Democratic newspaper in their town. Medary recommended Breslin. Breslin was the first editor of the Seneca Advertiser. He published it from May 6, 1842 to 1854. The economic crisis of 1837 and the Mexican-American War overshadowed these years.

Breslin was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1848 and re-elected in 1849. At the age of 24, in 1848, he became Speaker of the House . In 1851 a new constitution was adopted in Ohio. In this context, the office of Treasurer of State became eligible. Breslin then ran against incumbent Albert A. Bliss , who belonged to the Whig Party , and won the election. During his time as Treasurer in Columbus he met Anna C. Borland from Lancaster, Ohio, whom he then married. He was re-elected in 1853 but lost to Republican William Harvey Gibson when he ran for a third term in 1855 . Gibson was from Tiffin and was a brother-in-law of Breslin. Breslin held his post as treasurer until the second Monday in January 1856. He then moved back to Tiffin.

Gibson was forced to resign in June 1857 when it became known that Breslin had embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars and Gibson did not report this immediately after the discovery. Breslin assured Gibson that he would get the money back. To avoid any inconvenience, Breslin fled to Canada after the embezzlement became known .

After living in Lancaster, Ohio for a year and a half, he and his wife moved to Huntington, West Virginia in 1871, where he worked as General Ticket Agent for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway . He held the post until his death in 1889. After his death, he was buried in Greenlawn Cemetery in Tiffin. His widow moved back to Lancaster.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c A Biographical Record of Fairfield County, Ohio, Illustrated , SJ Clarke Publishing Company, 1902, pp. 266-271
  2. ^ Manual of Legislative Practice in the General Assembly of Ohio , Westbote Company, 1917, p. 281
  3. ^ A b Bell, William junior : Annual Report of the Secretary of State to the Governor and General Assembly of the State of Ohio for the Year Ending ... , Columbus Printing Company, State Printers, 1876, p. 114
  4. ^ A b Bigger, David Dwight: Ohio's silver-tongued orator , United Brethren Publishing House, 1901, pp. 274-278
  5. ↑ The Runaway State Treasurer of Ohio ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / query.nytimes.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , The New York Times, July 12, 1858
  6. ^ John G. Breslin in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved June 11, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Breslin, John G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Lebanon , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1889
Place of death Huntington , West Virginia