List of Governors of Ohio - Other High Offices Held

Other High Offices Held

This is a table of other governorships, congressional and other federal offices, and ranking diplomatic positions in foreign countries held by Ohio governors. All representatives and senators mentioned represented Ohio.

* Denotes those offices for which the governor resigned the governorship.

† Denotes those offices from which the governor resigned to take the governorship.

Name	Gubernatorial term	U.S. Congress		Other offices held	Source
Name	Gubernatorial term	House	Senate	Other offices held	Source
Arthur St. Clair	1789–1802			President of the United States in Congress Assembled
Edward Tiffin	1803–1807		S*	Commissioner of the General Land Office, Surveyor General of the Northwest Territory
Return J. Meigs, Jr.	1810–1814		S†	District Judge for Michigan Territory, U.S. Postmaster General
Thomas Worthington	1814–1818		S†
Ethan Allen Brown	1818–1822		S*	Commissioner of the General Land Office, Minister to Brazil
Jeremiah Morrow	1822–1826	H	S
Duncan McArthur	1830–1832	H
Robert Lucas	1832–1836			Governor of Iowa Territory
Joseph Vance	1836–1838	H
Wilson Shannon	1838–1840 1842–1844	H		Minister to Mexico*, Governor of Kansas Territory
Thomas Corwin	1840–1842	H	S	Minister to Mexico, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Mordecai Bartley	1844–1846	H
William Medill	1853–1856	H		First Comptroller of the United States Treasury, Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Salmon P. Chase	1856–1860		S	U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Chief Justice of the United States
William Dennison	1860–1862			U.S. Postmaster General, President of the D. C. Board of Commissioners
David Tod	1862–1864			Minister to Brazil
Jacob Dolson Cox	1866–1868	H		U.S. Secretary of the Interior
Rutherford B. Hayes	1868–1872 1876–1877	H		President of the United States*
Edward F. Noyes	1872–1874			Minister to France
William Allen	1874–1876	H	S
Thomas L. Young	1877–1878	H
Charles Foster	1880–1884	H		U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Joseph B. Foraker	1886–1890		S
James E. Campbell	1890–1892	H
William McKinley	1892–1896	H		President of the United States
Myron T. Herrick	1904–1906			Ambassador to France
John M. Pattison	1906	H
Judson Harmon	1909–1913			U.S. Attorney General
James M. Cox	1913–1915 1917–1921	H†
Frank B. Willis	1915–1917	H†	S
A. Victor Donahey	1923–1929		S
George White	1931–1935	H
Martin L. Davey	1935–1939	H
John W. Bricker	1939–1945		S
Frank J. Lausche	1945–1947 1949–1957		S*
John J. Gilligan	1971–1975	H
Dick Celeste	1983–1991			Ambassador to India
George Voinovich	1991–1998		S*
Ted Strickland	2007–2011	H
John Kasich	2011—	H

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