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| Name | C. William O'Neill |
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Marietta, Ohio , United States |
| Email | None |
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February 14, 1916
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| Died | August 20, 1978
(62 years)
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| Contributor | User 13 |
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| Info | - 59th Governor of Ohio, 1957 - 1959
- Born in Marietta, Ohio, on February 14, 1916
- He received his A. B. degree cum laude from Marietta College in 1938.
- Ohio State University Law School, 1942
- elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1938, when he was twenty-two years of age, the youngest person ever elected to the house. Reelected five times, he served six successive terms from 1939 to 1950, during which time he was speaker of the house in 1947-48 and minority floor leader in 1949-50.
- Ohio Attorney General, 1950, (at thirty- four, the youngest in Ohio history) and served in that office for three terms, January 1951 to January 1957.
- Attorney General O'Neill won the Republican nomination for governor in 1956 over Lieutenant Governor John W. Brown
- C. William O'Neill is the only person in Ohio history to head all three branches of the State’s government.
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