Thomas Corwin

U. S. House of Representatives, Ohio, 1831-1840
Governor, Ohio, 1840-1842
U. S. Senator, Ohio, 1845-1850
U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1850-1853
U. S. Senator, Ohio, 1859-1861
U. S. Minister to Mexico, 1861-1864

Born: July 29, 1794, Bourbon County, Kentucky.

• Moved with his parents to Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, 1798.
  
• Studied law, was admitted to the bar, 1817.
  
• Commenced law practice in Lebanon, Ohio, 1817.
  
• Prosecuting Attorney of Warren County, Ohio, 1818-1828.
  
• Member of the Ohio State House of Representatives, 1822-1823, and again in 1829.
  
• Elected from Ohio as a Whig to the Twenty-second and to the four succeeding U. S. Congresses, serving from March 4, 1831, until his resignation, effective May 30, 1840, having become a candidate for Governor.
  
• Governor of Ohio, 1840-1842.
  
• Unsuccessful candidate for re-election, 1842, and declined to be a candidate for the nomination in 1844.
  
• President of the Ohio Whig Convention, 1844.
  
• Presidential Elector on the Whig ticket of Clay and Frelinghuysen, 1844.
  
• Elected from Ohio to the U. S. Senate, serving from March 4, 1845 - July 20, 1850, when he resigned to enter the U. S. Cabinet.
  
• Appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Fillmore, serving in that capacity from July 23, 1850 - March 7, 1853.
  
• Elected again from Ohio as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh U. S. Congresses, serving from March 4, 1859 - March 12, 1861, when he again resigned to enter the diplomatic service.
  
• Appointed by U. S. President Lincoln as Minister to Mexico, serving from March 22, 1861 - September 1, 1864, when he resigned.
  
• Settled in Washington, D. C., and practiced law until his death in 1865.

Died: December 18, 1865, Washington, D. C.
Buried: Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, Ohio.

(Source: U.S. Congress. House. Biographical Directory Of The American Congress 1774-1949, 85th Cong., 2nd sess., H. Doc. 607 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), pp. 759-2057.)