Category
page 1Abolitionists from Ohio

James A. Garfield
James Abram Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 1881 until his death in September that year after being shot in July. A preacher, lawyer, and Civil War general, Garfield served nine terms in the United States House of Representatives and is the only sitting member of the House to be elected president. Before he ran for president, the Ohio General Assembly had elected him to the U.S. Senate, a position he declined upon becoming president-elect.

Horace Mann
American politician (1796-1859)

Lucy Webb Hayes
First Lady of the United States from 1877 to 1881
James G. Birney
American politician (1792-1857)
Frances Dana Barker Gage
American writer (1808-1884)
John Chivington
former Methodist pastor and colonel in the United States Volunteers
John Bingham
American politician (1815–1900)

Theodore Dwight Weld
American abolitionist (1803–1895)
John Mercer Langston
American politician (1829–1897)

Joshua Reed Giddings
American politician (1795–1864)
Benjamin Lundy
American Quaker abolitionist (1789-1839)
Sherlock James Andrews
American politician (1801–1880)
Carrie Williams Clifford
American writer and activist
Gamaliel Bailey
American physician, journalist, abolitionist (1807-1859)
Jonathan T. Updegraff
American politician (1822-1882)
John Anthony Copeland, Jr.
American rebel (1834-1859)
Justin Holland
American musician, guitar pedagogue (1819-1887)