Mordecai Bartley
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| 18th Governor of Ohio | |
| In office December 3, 1844 – December 12, 1846 |
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| Preceded by | Thomas W. Bartley |
| Succeeded by | William Bebb |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 14th district |
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| In office March 4, 1823 – March 4, 1831 |
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| Preceded by | new district |
| Succeeded by | Eleutheros Cooke |
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| Born | December 16, 1783 Fayette County, Pennsylvania |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Mansfield, Ohio |
| Resting place | Mansfield Cemetery |
| Political party | Whig |
Mordecai Bartley (December 16, 1783 – October 10, 1870) was a Whig politician from Ohio. He served as the 18th Governor of Ohio. Bartley succeeded his son, Thomas W. Bartley as governor, one of only a few instances of this happening in the United States in high offices.
Biography
Bartley was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. After attending the local school in Virginia, he married Elizabeth Welles in 1804 and moved to Jefferson County, Ohio.[1]
Bartley served as a captain, and then an adjutant during the War of 1812. Following his service under General William Henry Harrison in the War of 1812, Bartley moved to Richland County, Ohio, near Mansfield. Engaged as a farmer, he served in the Ohio State Senate from 1816 to 1818. Elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1822, Bartley served four terms before declining to be renominated in 1830.[2]
Bartley was an Ohio Whig Party Presidential elector in 1836 for William Henry Harrison.[3]
He ran for governor in 1844 as a Whig - his son was a Democrat - after the candidate whom the Whigs had originally nominated, David Spangler, declined the nomination. Bartley served a single term from 1844 to 1846 before retiring once again. While he was Governor, Ohio raised forty companies and 7000 men for the Mexican-American War.[4]
References
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External links
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons- Mordecai Bartley at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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- Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from Appleton's Cyclopedia
- 1783 births
- 1870 deaths
- Governors of Ohio
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio
- Ohio State Senators
- Ohio Whigs
- People from Richland County, Ohio
- Ohio Democratic-Republicans
- Ohio National Republicans
- United States presidential electors
- American military personnel of the War of 1812
- Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives
- National Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives
- Whig Party state governors of the United States
