Seabury Ford

Seabury Ford

Seabury Ford (October 15, 1801ndash May 8, 1855) was a Whig politician from Ohio. He served as the 20th Governor of Ohio and the last Whig to do so.

Ford was born in Cheshire, Connecticut and moved to Burton, Ohio with his parents in 1804. After attending Yale University, he returned to Ohio to practice law. He read law under the direction of his uncle, Judge Peter Hitchcock.

After serving in the General Assembly, Ford was elected to the governorship in late 1848, by a margin of 311 votes out of nearly 300,000 cast. Ford served only a single term before returning home. His term was marred by fighting in a highly partisan Assembly that was divided over issues related to slavery and the Mexican-American War, as well as by a cholera epidemic that swept through Columbus.

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