19 Facts About Edward Tiffin

Edward Tiffin was an American politician who served as the first governor of Ohio and later as a United States Senator from Ohio as a member of the Democratic-Republican party.

Edward Tiffin's family emigrated to Virginia in 1783, and he began practicing medicine at the age of seventeen.

Edward Tiffin headed westward, along with Thomas Worthington, in 1798, settling in Chillicothe, Ohio.

Edward Tiffin became the first doctor in Chillicothe, traveling on horseback, day and night, to treat the afflicted.

Edward Tiffin arrived with a letter addressed to the governor of the Northwest Territory, Arthur St Clair from George Washington, recommending him for public office.

Edward Tiffin served as the Speaker of the Territorial House of Representatives from 1799 to 1801 and as president of the 1802 Constitutional Convention, where he cast a tie-breaking vote to deny the voting franchise to the new state's 337 African American residents.

Edward Tiffin was a leader of the Chillicothe Junto, a group of Chillicothe Democratic-Republican politicians who brought about the admission of Ohio as a state in 1803 and largely controlled its politics for some years thereafter.

Edward Tiffin was the obvious choice for the governorship when Ohio was admitted to the Union.

Edward Tiffin was elected almost without opposition to a first term and re-elected by similarly overwhelming numbers two years later.

Edward Tiffin acted promptly to stop the Burr conspiracy in his second term.

Edward Tiffin was elected to the US Senate in 1806 and resigned the governorship in March 1807 to take his seat.

Edward Tiffin served only two years resigning after the death of his wife.

Edward Tiffin procured an appropriation of public money for the improvement of the Ohio River.

Edward Tiffin secured better and speedier transportation of the mails; a better and more rapid system for the surveys of western lands; and urged such modifications of the laws regarding sales of western land as would, to use his own words, 'guard the purchasers of them from unnecessary embarrassments and frequent ruin.

Edward Tiffin spent only a few months at home before being elected to the Ohio House of Representatives, where he served as speaker from 1809 to 1811.

Edward Tiffin remarried April 16,1809, to Mary Porter, originally from Delaware, and then of Ross County.

Edward Tiffin became the first commissioner of the United States General Land Office, which managed allocations of Federal lands.

Edward Tiffin quickly helped remove the Federal records from Washington before it was sacked during the War of 1812.

Edward Tiffin appeared upon the scene of action in the Northwest Territory in its creative period, when the work of moulding the destinies of a future commonwealth was committed to the care of a very few men.