Thomas Worthington

Thomas Worthington (born July 16, 1773 in Charles Town , Jefferson County , Colony of Virginia , † June 20, 1827 in New York City ) was an American politician . He represented the state of Ohio in the US Senate and was its governor .

Life

Worthington, born and raised in what is now West Virginia , received a simple education in a rural school. As a young adult, he spent two years as a member of the merchant navy , earning the money to then pay for his training as a surveyor . In 1798 Worthington moved with his family to Ross County in what would later become the state of Ohio and settled there in Chillicothe . Here he was elected to the House of Representatives of the Northwest Territory in 1799 , where he held a seat until 1803. Most recently he was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1803, which put the Ohio State Constitution into writing.

In 1803 Worthington was elected to the US Senate in Washington, DC for Ohio , where he served from April 1, 1803 to March 3, 1807. After Worthington had been elected to the Ohio House of Representatives between 1807 and 1810 , he took over his vacant seat after US Senator Return Jonathan Meigs left and was again US Senator from December 15, 1810 to December 1, 1814. Worthington, who belonged to the Democratic Republican Party , ran for the office of governor of Ohio in 1814 and served as the sixth incumbent from December 8, 1814 to December 14, 1818. During his tenure, among other things, Columbus was determined as the new capital of Ohio and thus dissolved Chillicothe in this capacity.

After leaving the governorship, Worthington ran again for a seat in the House of Representatives in his state in 1821 and remained there until 1823. From 1824 to 1825 he was again representative of Ross County in the Ohio House of Representatives.

Worthington was married to Eleanor Van Swearingen and had ten children. He died in 1827, at the age of 53. The city of Worthington in Franklin County was named in his honor.

literature

Alfred Byron Sears: Thomas Worthington: Father of Ohio Statehood . Ohio State University Press, Columbus OH 1958; Reprint 1998. ISBN 0814207456 ( digital version as pdf on the publisher's pages in full access)

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personal data
SURNAME	Worthington, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 16, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH	Charles Town , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH	June 20, 1827
Place of death	New York City , New York