Secretary of State of Ohio
The Secretary of State of Ohio is one of the constitutional offices of the State of Ohio . He is responsible for monitoring elections in the state; the registration of business entities in the state (e.g. corporations etc.) and the issuing of permits to these business entities to do business in the state; the registration of secured transactions ; and grant access to public documents.
From 1803 to 1851, the Secretary of State of Ohio was elected by the Ohio General Assembly for a three-year term. As a result of the Ohio constitutional amendment of 1851, the incumbent was elected by the eligible population of Ohio for a two-year term. In 1954 the term of office was extended to four years. The Secretary of State is elected in even-numbered, off-cycle years (no presidential elections) after the party's internal primaries.
The current incumbent is John A. Husted , who took up his post in January 2011.
Northwest Territory *
| # | Secretary of State | Term of office |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Winthrop Sargent | 1788-1798 |
| 2 | William Henry Harrison | 1798-1799 |
| 3 | Charles Willing Byrd | 1799-1803 |
* The Northwest Territory comprised the states of Ohio , Indiana , Illinois , Michigan and Wisconsin as well as the part of Minnesota east of the Mississippi .
State of Ohio
| # | Secretary of State | image | Term of office | Party affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | William Creighton | 1803-1808 | Democratic Republican | |
| 2 | Jeremiah McLene | 1808-1831 | democrat | |
| 3 | Moses H. Kirby |
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1831-1835 | Whig |
| 4th | Benjamin B. Hinkson | 1835-1836 | democrat | |
| 5 | Carter B. Harlan | 1836-1840 | democrat | |
| 6th | William Trevitt | 1840-1841 | democrat | |
| 7th | John Sloane |
|
1841-1844 | Whig |
| 8th | Samuel Galloway |
|
1844-1850 | Whig |
| 9 | Henry W. King |
|
1850-1852 | Free soil |
| 10 | William Trevitt | 1852-1856 | democrat | |
| 11 | James H. Baker |
|
1856-1858 | republican |
| 12 | Addison Peale Russell |
|
1858-1862 | republican |
| 13 | Benjamin R. Cowen |
|
1862 | republican |
| 14th | Wilson S. Kennon | 1862-1863 | republican | |
| 15th | William W. Armstrong | 1863-1865 | democrat | |
| 16 | William Henry Smith |
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1865-1868 | republican |
| 17th | John Russell | 1868-1869 | republican | |
| 18th | Isaac R. Sherwood |
|
1869-1873 | republican |
| 19th | Allen T. Wikoff |
|
1873-1875 | republican |
| 20th | William Bell Jr. |
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1875-1877 | democrat |
| 21st | Milton Barnes |
|
1877-1881 | republican |
| 22nd | Charles Townsend |
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1881-1883 | republican |
| 23 | James W. Newman |
|
1883-1885 | democrat |
| 24 | James Sidney Robinson |
|
1885-1889 | republican |
| 25th | Daniel J. Ryan |
|
1889-1891 | republican |
| 26th | Christian L. Poorman |
|
1891-1893 | republican |
| 27 | Samuel McIntire Taylor |
|
1893-1897 | republican |
| 28 | Charles Kinney |
|
1897-1901 | republican |
| 29 | Lewis C. Laylin |
|
1901-1907 | republican |
| 30th | Carmi Thompson |
|
1907-1911 | republican |
| 31 | Charles H. Graves |
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1911-1915 | democrat |
| 32 | Charles Q. Hildebrant |
|
1915-1917 | republican |
| 33 | William D. Fulton |
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1917-1919 | democrat |
| 34 | Harvey C. Smith |
|
1919-1923 | republican |
| 35 | Thad H. Brown |
|
1923-1927 | republican |
| 36 | Clarence J. Brown |
|
1927-1933 | republican |
| 37 | George S. Myers |
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1933-1936 | democrat |
| 38 | William J. Kennedy | 1936-1939 | democrat | |
| 39 | Earl Griffith | 1939-1940 | republican | |
| 40 | George M. Neffiner | 1940-1941 | republican | |
| 41 | John E. Sweeney | 1941-1943 | democrat | |
| 42 | Edward J. Hummel | 1943-1949 | republican | |
| 43 | Charles F. Sweeney | 1949-1951 | republican | |
| 44 | Ted W. Brown | 1951-1979 | republican | |
| 45 | Anthony J. Celebrezze Jr. | 1979-1983 | democrat | |
| 46 | Sherrod Brown |
|
1983-1991 | democrat |
| 47 | Bob Taft |
|
1991-1999 | republican |
| 48 | Ken Blackwell |
|
1999-2007 | republican |
| 49 | Jennifer Brunner |
|
2007-2011 | Democrat |
| 50 | Jon A. Husted |
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since 2011 | republican |
