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  Thurman, Allen G.
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AffiliationDemocratic  
 
NameAllen G. Thurman
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Columbus, Ohio , United States
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Born November 13, 1813
DiedDecember 12, 1895 (82 years)
ContributorU Ole Polecat
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Aug 23, 2015 03:07pm
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Infoa Representative and a Senator from Ohio; born in Lynchburg, Va., November 13, 1813; moved with his parents to Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1819; attended the Chillicothe Academy; private secretary to the Governor 1834; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1835 and practiced in Ross County, Ohio; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1845-March 3, 1847); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1846; resumed the practice of law; associate justice of the supreme court of Ohio 1851-1854, chief justice 1854-1856; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor of Ohio in 1867; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1868; reelected in 1874, and served from March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1881; served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Forty-sixth Congress; chairman, Committee on Private Land Claims (Forty-second through Forty-fifth Congresses), Committee on the Judiciary (Forty-sixth Congress); appointed a member of the Electoral Commission to decide the contests in various States in the presidential election of 1876; unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the United States Senate in 1881; resumed the practice of law in Columbus, Ohio; appointed by President James Garfield a member of the international monetary conference in Paris in 1881; unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States on the Democratic ticket in 1888; died in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, December 12, 1895; interment in Green Lawn Cemetery.


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FAMILY
Wife Mary Anderson Dun Tompkins Thurman 00, 1844-Oct 17, 1891

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RACES
  11/06/1888 US Vice President Lost 41.90% (-16.21%)
  06/07/1888 US Vice President - D Convention Won 83.21% (+70.92%)
  07/11/1884 US President - D Convention Lost 7.61% (-51.47%)
  05/14/1884 US President - Anti-Monopoly Convention Lost 5.30% (-88.64%)
  01/18/1881 OH US Senate - Special Election Lost 37.78% (-24.44%)
  06/24/1880 US President - D Convention Lost 4.91% (-45.23%)
  01/13/1880 OH US Senate Lost 39.86% (-20.28%)
  06/29/1876 US President - D Convention Lost 0.34% (-60.80%)
  01/12/1874 OH US Senate Won 57.25% (+15.22%)
  01/15/1868 OH US Senate Won 52.48% (+4.96%)
  10/08/1867 OH Governor Lost 49.69% (-0.62%)
  10/08/1844 OH District 08 Won 50.58% (+2.39%)
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