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Title
Edward
Tiffin
Silhouette
Subject
Ohio Government
Presidents and Politics
Governors
Place
Chillicothe (Ohio)
Ross County (Ohio)
Description
This
silhouette
depicts
Edward
Tiffin
,
Ohio's
first
governor
.
It
is
the
only
image
known
for
which
he
posed
. The
silhouette
measures
approximately
3
by
5
inches
(7.62
by
12.7
cm)
.
Tiffin
(1766-1829)
was
born
in
Carlisle
,
England
and
immigrated
to
Berkeley
County
,
Virginia
(now
Jefferson
County
,
West
Virginia)
with his
parents
and
siblings
in
1783
. He
studied
medicine
and was also
ordained
as a
Methodist
lay
minister
. In
1798
, he
moved
to
Chillicothe
with his
family
,
including
his
brother-in-law
Thomas
Worthington
,
who
later
became
Tiffin's
political
ally
. The
Tiffins
also
brought
several
former
slaves
with them that they had
freed
before
leaving
Virginia
.
Tiffin
was
elected
speaker
of the
territorial
assembly
. A
leader
of the
Jeffersonian
Republicans
in
Ohio
,
Tiffin
opposed
Territorial
Governor
Arthur
St
.
Clair
,
who
believed
that the
settlers
were not
qualified
to
govern
themselves
and
required
the
leadership
of a
strong
governor
.
Tiffin
served
as
president
of the
Ohio's
1802
Constitutional
Convention
and was
elected
as the
state's
first
governor
, a
position
he
held
from
1803
to
1807
.
Tiffin
was
later
a
U
.
S
.
Senator
,
speaker
of the
Ohio
House
of
Representatives
,
commissioner
of the
General
Land
Office
in
Washington
D
.
C.
, and
surveyor-general
northwest
of the
Ohio
.
Date of Original
1800
circa
Source
Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution
Ross County Historical Society
Rights
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om1327_1109005_001.tif
Image Height
945
Image Width
673
File Size
111.808 KB
Format
picture
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