10 Facts About Allen Trimble

Allen Trimble was a Federalist and National Republican politician from Ohio.

Allen Trimble served as the eighth and tenth governor of Ohio, first concurrently as Senate Speaker, later elected twice in his own right.

Allen Trimble moved them to a homestead he and his father had established outside of Hillsboro, Ohio.

Trimble became Speaker of the Senate, and it was in this capacity that he became governor from January to December 1822 when Governor Ethan Allen Brown resigned to take a seat in the United States Senate.

Allen Trimble ran an election for a full term in 1822, but narrowly lost.

Allen Trimble challenged Jeremiah Morrow again in 1824, narrowing the distance between the two, but still losing.

Allen Trimble won a landslide election in 1826 as a National Republican and then won a second full term in 1828.

Allen Trimble then retired to farming, taking little part in politics for the next quarter-century, but did consent to accepting the nomination of the Know-Nothings for governor in 1855.

Allen Trimble came in third, losing to Republican US Senator Salmon Chase and incumbent Democrat William Medill.

Allen Trimble died at his family farm in Ohio, and was buried in Hillsboro Cemetery in Hillsboro, Ohio.