George K. Nash
George Kilbon Nash | |
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1905 portrait by Charles T. Webber
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41st Governor of Ohio | |
In office January 8, 1900 – January 11, 1904 |
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Lieutenant | <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/> |
Preceded by | Asa S. Bushnell |
Succeeded by | Myron T. Herrick |
15th Ohio Attorney General | |
In office January 12, 1880 – April 16, 1883 |
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Preceded by | Isaiah Pillars |
Succeeded by | David Hollingsworth |
Personal details | |
Born | Medina County, Ohio |
August 14, 1842
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Columbus, Ohio |
Resting place | Green Lawn Cemetery |
Political party | Republican |
Spouse(s) | Adeline Ayres |
Children | Mary Nash |
Alma mater | Oberlin College |
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Military service | |
Allegiance | United States |
Service/branch | Union Army |
Unit | 150th Ohio Infantry |
Battles/wars | American Civil War |
George Kilbon Nash (August 14, 1842 – October 28, 1904) was a Republican politician from Ohio. He served as the 41st Governor of Ohio.
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Biography
Nash was born in York Township, Medina County, Ohio. He attended the preparatory school at Western Reserve College. At 20 years of age he entered Oberlin College and stayed until his sophomore year, when he enlisted as a private in the One hundred fiftieth regiment of the Ohio National Guard of the Union Army during the Civil War. After the war he studied law in the offices of Robert B. Warden, who had been a justice on the Ohio Supreme Court.[1][2] He was admitted to the bar in 1867 in Columbus, Ohio. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Franklin County, Ohio in 1870, and re-elected in 1872.[1] He re-entered private practice, and in 1876 lost a bid for Congress,[1][3] and lost for Ohio Attorney General in 1877.[1][4] In October, 1879, he was elected Ohio Attorney General.[5] In 1881 he was re-elected.[6] In 1883, he was appointed a member of the Supreme Court Commission of Ohio for two years. He then devoted time to lucrative private practice, including significant railroad litigation, and party politics.[1] Nash served as Governor of Ohio from January 8, 1900 to January 11, 1904.
Story with Dick Price
The following story is written in the book by Al Jennings, Through the Shadows With O. Henry. A young inmate, Dick Price, was sentenced for life for repeated safe-cracking, in which he was a good specialist. Once there was a necessity to open a safe of a company, when keys were lost. George Nash promised to pardon Price, if he did it. Price cracked the safe, but Nash didn't pardon him, failing to fulfil his promise. Soon Price died in prison. His story was used by O. Henry in his story "A Retrieved Reformation".
According to other sources,[7] the name of the safe-cracker was Jimmy Connors.
Family
George K. Nash was the son of Asa Nash and Electa Branch Nash. They were farmers in Medina County, originally from Massachusetts. There were three sons and two daughters in the family.[2] Nash married Mrs. William K. Deshler,[2] (Adaline Ayres),[8] April, 1882. She died October 17, 1886. They had one daughter, named Mary Nash, who died February 12, 1897. Both were interred in Green Lawn Cemetery, and Nash visited their graves and left flowers before each of his inaugurations.[2] Governor Nash was also buried at Green Lawn.[8]
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Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Smith 1898 Volume II : 122
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Mercer 1903 : 7-11
- ↑ 1876: Twelfth district Democrat Thomas Ewing 19,628, Nash 14,451 from Smith 1898 Volume I : 365
- ↑ 1877: Democrat Isaiah Pillars 269,506 Nash 252,155 from Smith 1898 Volume I : 379
- ↑ 1879: Nash 336,100 Isaiah Pillars 316,778 from Smith 1898 Volume I : 406
- ↑ 1881: Nash 315,665 Democrat Frank C. Daugherty 287,470 from Smith 1898 Volume I : 450
- ↑ Nextext at www.nextext.com
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Green Lawn Cemetery Burial Records
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