Jeremiah Morrow was a Democratic-Republican Party

Democratic-Republican Party (United States)

The Democratic-Republican Party or Republican Party was an American political party founded in the early 1790s by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Political scientists use the former name, while historians prefer the latter one; contemporaries generally called the party the "Republicans", along...

 politician from Ohio

Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...

. He served as the ninth Governor of Ohio, and the last Democratic-Republican to do so.

Morrow was born near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

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, to the descendants of Scots-Irish

Scots-Irish American

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 immigrants. He moved to the Northwest Territory

Northwest Territory

The Territory Northwest of the River Ohio, more commonly known as the Northwest Territory, was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 13, 1787, until March 1, 1803, when the southeastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Ohio...

 in 1795. He lived at the mouth of the Little Miami River

Little Miami River

The Little Miami River is a Class I tributary of the Ohio River that flows through five counties in southwestern Ohio in the United States. The Little Miami joins the Ohio River east of Cincinnati. It forms parts of the borders between Hamilton and Clermont counties and between Hamilton and Warren...

 for a short time before moving to what is now Warren County

Warren County, Ohio

Warren County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. The population was 212,693 at the 2010 census. Its county seat is Lebanon. Warren County was erected May 1, 1803, from Hamilton County, and named for Dr...

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After serving in the Territorial House of Representatives and Territorial Senate, and as a Hamilton county

Hamilton County, Ohio

As of 2000, there were 845,303 people, 346,790 households, and 212,582 families residing in the county. The population density was 2,075 people per square mile . There were 373,393 housing units at an average density of 917 per square mile...

 delegate to the 1802 Constitutional Convention

Ohio Constitutional Convention (1802)

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, he was elected to the first State Senate a year later and served six months before becoming Ohio's first member of the United States House of Representatives

United States House of Representatives

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. Morrow won four additional full terms. He ran for the U.S. Senate

United States Senate

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 in 1812 and served a single term from 1813 to 1819, and did not seek re-election. Ohio Presidential elector in 1816 for James Monroe

James Monroe

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. He won election to the governorship in 1822 and served for two two-year terms. He declined to serve a third term, instead returning to the Ohio House of Representatives

Ohio House of Representatives

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 and State Senate. Morrow was sent back to Washington again in 1841, and served two more years in the House, but refused to be renominated in 1842, believing himself too old.

He is the namesake of the highest bridge in Ohio

Jeremiah Morrow Bridge

The Jeremiah Morrow Bridge is a pair of parallel continuous truss bridges which span the Little Miami River gorge between Fort Ancient and Oregonia, Ohio. The bridges are named for Governor Jeremiah Morrow....

, of Morrow County

Morrow County, Ohio

Morrow County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. Shawnee people used the area for hunting purposes before white settlers arrived in the early 19th century. Morrow County was organized in 1848 from parts of four neighboring counties and named for Jeremiah Morrow, Governor of...

, and of Morrow, Ohio

Morrow, Ohio

Morrow is a village in Salem Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2000 census, the village population was 1,286, up from 1,206 in 1990...

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