List of People From Ohio - Politicians, Public Servants, Public Officeholders, Etc.

Politicians, Public Servants, Public Officeholders, Etc.

See also: List of Ohio politicians

• Charles Anderson (Ohio governor) (Dayton)
• Frank J. Battisti (judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio) (Youngstown)
• Albert J. Beveridge (political leader) (Highland)
• Ken Blackwell (politician) (Cincinnati)
• Blue Jacket (Shawnee Indian Chief) (presently known as Ross County)
• William Jennings Bryan (U.S. presidential candidate) (Salem)
• Henry Lawrence Burnett – (prosecutor in trial for Abraham Lincoln assassination) (Youngstown)
• Prescott Bush (U.S. Senator, businessman) (Columbus)
• William Case (Cleveland)
• Steve Chabot (politician, former U.S. representative) (Cincinnati)
• James M. Cox (Governor, Presidential candidate, Media mogul) (Dayton)
• Charles G. Dawes (politician)
• William R. Day (US Supreme Court Justice) (Ravenna/Canton)
• John Dean (White House Counsel to President Nixon) (Akron)
• R. Michael DeWine (politician, U.S. Senator) (Cedarville)
• Steve Driehaus (politician, U.S. representative) (Cincinnati)
• James A. Garfield (Civil War general, U.S. president)
• James Rudolph Garfield (U.S. Interior Secretary)
• John J. Gilligan (politician, Ohio Governor)
• Bill Gradison (politician, U.S. representative)
• Ulysses S. Grant (soldier, politician, U.S. president) (Point Pleasant)
• Warren G. Harding (U.S. president) (Blooming Grove/Caledonia)
• Andrew L. Harris (Civil War general, U.S. Commissioner, Ohio Governor)
• Benjamin Harrison (soldier, politician, U.S. president) (North Bend)
• Dave Hobson (politician, U.S. representative) (Springfield)
• Rutherford B. Hayes (politician, U.S. president) (Delaware)
• Darrell Issa (politician, U.S. representative) (Cleveland)
• Nathaniel R. Jones (judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit) (Youngstown)
• Michael J. Kirwan (politician, U.S. representative) (Youngstown)
• Dennis Kucinich (politician) (Cleveland)
• Kenesaw Mountain Landis (federal judge, baseball commissioner) (Millville)
• Frank Lausche (Ohio Senator and Governor)
• Lucile Petry Leone (Cadet Nurse Corps, Assistant Surgeon General) (Preble County)
• Neil H. McElroy (businessman, cabinet secretary)
• William McKinley (U.S. president) (Niles)
• Arthur Ernest Morgan (college president, hydraulic engineer, TVA administrator)
• Chief Pontiac (Ottawa Indian Chief)
• James A. Rhodes (politician, Ohio Governor) (Jackson)
• Christina Romer (chair of Council of Economic Advisers) (Canton)
• William Saxbe (U.S. Senator, U.S. Attorney General, Ambassador to India)
• Kathleen Sebelius (U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, former Governor of Kansas) (Cincinnati)
• Donna Edna Shalala (U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, 1993–2001)
• Tony Snow (White House Press Secretary) (Cincinnati)
• William Howard Taft (politician, jurist, U.S. president, chief justice) (Cincinnati)
• Robert A. Taft I (politician) (Cincinnati)
• Robert Taft (Jr.)
• Robert A. Taft II (politician, Ohio governor)
• Charles Phelps Taft II, Mayor of Cincinnati
• Norman Thomas (politician) (Marion)
• David Tod (governor) (Youngstown)
• James Traficant (politician, U.S. representative) (Youngstown)
• Clement Vallandigham (politician, activist) (Dayton)
• George Voinovich (politician) (Cleveland)
• Brand Whitlock (politician, diplomat)
• Jay Williams, (mayor) (Youngstown)
• Mary Ellen Withrow, (U.S. Treasurer) (Marion)
• Victoria Claflin Woodhull (first woman to be nominated President) (Homer, Licking County)