26 Facts About Thomas Corwin

Thomas Corwin, known as Tom Corwin, The Wagon Boy, and Black Tom was a politician from the state of Ohio.

Thomas Corwin represented Ohio in both houses of Congress and served as the 15th governor of Ohio and the 20th Secretary of the Treasury.

Thomas Corwin was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, but he grew up in Lebanon, Ohio.

Thomas Corwin became a prosecuting attorney and won election to the Ohio House of Representatives.

Thomas Corwin served in the United States House of Representatives from 1830 to 1840, resigning from Congress to take office as Ohio's governor.

Thomas Corwin was defeated for re-election in 1842 but was elected by the state legislature to the United States Senate in 1844.

Thomas Corwin resigned from the Senate to become Secretary of the Treasury under President Millard Fillmore.

Thomas Corwin returned to the United States House of Representatives in 1859.

Thomas Corwin led the House of Representatives' effort to end the secessionist crisis that arose following the 1860 elections.

Thomas Corwin sponsored a constitutional amendment that would have forbidden the federal government from outlawing slavery, even through further constitutional amendments.

Thomas Corwin resigned from Congress in March 1861 to become the United States Ambassador to Mexico.

Thomas Corwin held that position until 1864 and died the following year.

Thomas Corwin moved with his parents to Lebanon, Ohio in 1798.

From 1822 to 1823, and in 1829, Thomas Corwin was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, where he made a spirited speech against the introduction of the whipping post into Ohio.

Thomas Corwin was a Presidential elector in 1844 for the Whig Party ticket of Henry Clay and Theodore Frelinghuysen.

Thomas Corwin was a member of the United States Senate, having been elected by the Ohio General Assembly as a Whig and served from March 4,1845, to July 20,1850.

Thomas Corwin resigned from the Senate to become President Millard Fillmore's Secretary of the Treasury shortly after the death of President Zachary Taylor.

Thomas Corwin retired as Secretary shortly after the end of Fillmore's administration.

Thomas Corwin was again elected to the House of Representatives in 1858, this time as a Republican and a member of the 36th Congress.

Thomas Corwin's amendment restated what most Americans already believed, that under the Constitution the Congress had no power to interfere with slavery in the states where it existed.

Thomas Corwin was reelected to the House of Representatives in 1860 but resigned on March 12,1861, after being appointed by the newly inaugurated President Lincoln to become Minister to Mexico, where he served until 1864.

Thomas Corwin acquired the nickname Black Tom not because he was African American in ancestry, but because of his dark, swarthy complexion.

Thomas Corwin did sometimes portray himself, for comedic effect, as having African ancestry.

In 1898, the village of Thomas Corwin, Ohio was named after him, which is located in Wayne Township, Warren County, Ohio.

Thomas Corwin was the namesake of the Tom Thomas Corwin Coal Company.

The associated company town Tom Thomas Corwin is an unincorporated community in Jackson County, Ohio.