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[274] Born in Ohio, 1822; died, 1893. Graduated at Kenyon College, 1842; practiced law at Fremont, Ohio; volunteered at the outbreak of the war, and rose to be brigadier general; was wounded at South Mountain, and distinguished himself in the Shenandoah campaign of 1864; congressman, 1865–1866; governor of Ohio, 1868–1872; was elected governor on “honest money” issue, after a campaign of remarkable spirit,—a fact which brought him forward as candidate for President in 1876; was nominated over Blaine and Bristow on the seventh ballot, by the Republican Convention, and was declared elected after decision of the Electoral Commission, March 2, 1876.