PL ~ Thomas Kirker Traditional Cache
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Thomas Kirker (1760 – February 20, 1837) was a
Democratic-
Republican politician from Ohio. He served as the second Governor
of Ohio.
Kirker was born in County Tyrone, Ireland. He moved with
his father to Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1779. He moved with
his new wife to Kentucky in 1790 and then Liberty Township,
Adams County, Ohio three years later. He was a delegate to
the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1802.[1] He served in
the first Ohio House of Representatives in 1803 and then in
the Ohio State Senate from 1803 to 1815. While serving as
Speaker of the Senate, Kirker became Governor upon the
resignation of Edward Tiffin to take a seat in the U.S.
Senate.
Kirker's term was extended through the 1807–1808 meeting
of
the Assembly due to the disqualification of Return J. Meigs,
Jr.
who had won the 1807 election to the governorship but had
been disqualified by the Assembly as he had not met the
residency requirements. Kirker ran for re-election in 1808,
but
lost to Samuel H. Huntington. Kirker later returned to the
Assembly, serving in the House of Representatives from 1816
to 1817 and in the State Senate from 1821 to 1825.
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