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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OhioThomas CORWIN
(1794-1865)
Senate Years of Service:
1845-1850Party: WhigCORWIN, Thomas, (brother
of Moses Bledso Corwin and uncle of Franklin Corwin), a
Representative and a Senator from Ohio; born in Bourbon County,
Ky., July 29, 1794; moved with his parents to Lebanon, Warren
County, Ohio, in 1798; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1817 and
commenced practice in Lebanon, Ohio; prosecuting attorney of Warren
County 1818-1828; member, State house of representatives 1822-1823,
1829; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-second and to the four
succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1831, until his
resignation, effective May 30, 1840, having become a candidate for
Governor; chairman, Committee on Public Lands (Twenty-sixth
Congress); Governor of Ohio 1840-1842; unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1842 and declined to be a candidate for the
nomination in 1844; president of the Ohio Whig convention in 1844;
elected as a Whig to the United States Senate and served from March
4, 1845, to July 20, 1850, when he resigned to enter the Cabinet;
appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Millard Fillmore
1850-1853; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and
Thirty-seventh Congresses and served from March 4, 1859, to March
12, 1861, when he resigned to enter the diplomatic service;
chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs (Thirty-sixth Congress);
appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as Minister to Mexico
1861-1864, when he resigned; settled in Washington, D.C., and
practiced law until his death on December 18, 1865; interment in
Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, Ohio.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Morrow, Josiah. Life
and Speeches of Thomas Corwin: Orator, Lawyer, Statesman.
Cincinnati: W.H. Anderson and Co., 1896; Graebner, Norman A.
“Thomas Corwin and the Sectional Crisis.” Ohio
History 86 (Autumn 1977): 229-47.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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