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Ohio -- Politics and government -- 1787-1865

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• Ohio -- Politics and government

• Party Spirit in a Frontier Republic: Democratic Politics in Ohio, 1793-1821 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Donald J. Ratcliffe (PDF at Ohio State)
• In the Name of the People: Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859 (Columbus: Pub. for the Ohio Historical Society by the Ohio State University Press, c1959), by Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, ed. by Harry V. Jaffa and Robert W. Johannsen
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Thomas Worthington, Father of Ohio Statehood (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1998), by Alfred Byron Sears (PDF at Ohio State)
• Proceedings of the Democratic State Convention, Held at Columbus, Ohio, Friday, July 4, 1862, by Democratic Party (Ohio) Convention (page images at MOA)
• Ohio politics. Cox after Giddings. "Father Giddings" dodges under the bush with his colored friend. ([Washington, Printed by L. Towers, 1859]), by Samuel Sullivan Cox (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Ohio's War Governors (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1962), by Richard H. Abbott, contrib. by William B. Hesseltine (PDF at Ohio State)
• Dayton speech of Hon. John Brough ; President Lincoln's response relative to the arrest of Vallandigham. (Cincinnati : Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., printers, 1863), by John Brough (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address to the soldiers of Ohio. (Columbus, 1863), by Democratic party. Ohio (page images at HathiTrust)
• That we may have peace we must now make war. Address of William M. Dickson, at Greenwood hall, Cincinnati, September 23, 1863. (Cincinnati : Robert Clarke & Co., publishers, 1863), by William M. Dickson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. S. O. Griswold, of Cuyahoga County, on the resolutions relative to the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus and arrest of disloyal persons, delivered in the Ohio House of representatives. January 29, 1863. ([n.p., 1863]), by Seneca Origen Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freedom is always within the Union. (Columbus. R. Nevins, printer, 1861), by Henry Luther Dickey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. William J. Flagg ... delivered in the Ohio House of representatives, on the resolution of Mr. West to expel Hon. Otto Dresel, March 25, 1863. (Boston, Press of the Daily courier, 1863), by William Joseph Flagg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. Lewis B. Gunckel, of Montgomery County : delivered in the Senate of Ohio, March 2d, 1863, on the resolutions of Mr. Welch in favor of the Union. ([Columbus? : s.n., 1863]), by Lewis B. Gunckel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Masters of men; a retrospect in presidential politics, by Daniel J. Ryan; with eight contemporary portraits. (Columbus, O., McClelland & co., 1915), by Daniel Joseph Ryan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Journey Through My Years (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946), by James M. Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Story (1911), by Tom Loftin Johnson, ed. by Elizabeth J. Hauser (HTML at clevelandmemory.org)
• Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, by Rutherford B. Hayes, ed. by Charles Richard Williams (HTML with commentary at ohiohistory.org)
• Rutherford B. Hayes as governor of Ohio. ([n.p., 1876]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Journals of the General Assembly, by Ohio General Assembly (partial serial archives)

• Promises of Power: A Political Autobiography, by Carl Stokes (HTML with commentary at clevelandmemory.org)
• My Story (1911), by Tom Loftin Johnson, ed. by Elizabeth J. Hauser (HTML at clevelandmemory.org)

• History of the Police Department of Columbus, Ohio, From the Earliest Times to the Present with a Record of the Principal Crimes Committed (Columbus: Columbus Police Benevolent Association, 1908), by Columbus Police Benevolent Association (page images at HathiTrust)