Joseph T. Tracy

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Joseph Trimble Tracy (born December 28, 1865 in Mount Pleasant , Iowa , † January 2, 1952 in Columbus , Ohio ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ). He was Ohio State Auditor from 1921 to 1937 .

Career

Joseph Trimble Tracy, son of Noah and Nancy Ann Freeman Tracy, was born in Henry County about six months after the end of the Civil War . His family moved to Scioto County, Ohio , shortly after he was born , where he grew up on a farm. He attended Normal School in West Union, Ohio. He then taught at a school for five years and served as a County School Examiner . Then he was Deputy Clerk of Courts in Scioto County.

He was a county auditor in Scioto County from 1893 to 1899. Tracy was appointed municipal supervisor in the Bureau of Inspection and Supervision of Public Offices in the Auditor of State in 1902. He held the post for 14 years. During that time he helped set up accounting systems in 70 cities. In doing so, he built a reputation that helped him win the 1920 Auditor of State of Ohio election. He was re-elected in 1924, 1928 and 1932. In his re-election in 1940 he was defeated by the Democrat Joseph T. Ferguson with 1,525,839 to 1,479,840 votes.

Tracy married Alnore Arnold of Portsmouth, Ohio on April 11, 1894 . She died on January 9, 1921, the day before Tracy took up his post as Auditor of State. The couple had five children. Her son, Roger W. Tracy, and her grandson, Roger W. Tracy, Jr. were also Ohio politicians. Alnore was buried in the Green Lawn Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio. Tracy was a member of the Freemasons , Knights of Pythias, and King Avenue Methodist Church in Columbus. He died in Columbus in 1952 and was buried there in Green Lawn Cemetery.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f g Simeon Davidson Fess: Ohio: A Four-volume Reference Library on the History of a Great State , Lewis Publishing Company, 1937, OCLC 418516 , pp. 428f
  2. ^ The Biographical Annals of Ohio , Springfield Publishing Company, 1905, p. 542
  3. ↑ Our Campaign - Joseph T. Tracy
  4. ↑ 1940 Election Overview , Ohio Secretary of State
  5. ↑ Roger Walker Tracy in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved June 8, 2015.
  6. ↑ Roger W. Tracy on The Political Graveyard website
  7. ↑ Roger Wahlquist Tracy in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved June 8, 2015.
  8. ↑ Thomas Suddes: With 16% of Ohioans living in poverty, who 'speaks for the millions,' not the millionaires? , Cleveland.com
  9. ^ Our Campaign - Candidate Details - Joseph T. Tracy
  10. ^ Roger W. Tracy Junior on the rootsweb.ancestry.com website
  11. ^ A b Green Lawn Cemetery Burial Records
personal data
SURNAME Tracy, Joseph T.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tracy, Joseph Trimble (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Mount Pleasant , Iowa
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 1952
Place of death Columbus , Ohio