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Benjamin Hough

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Benjamin Hough
2nd Ohio State Auditor
In office
March 1, 1808 – March 15, 1815
GovernorThomas Kirker
Samuel Huntington
Return J. Meigs Jr.
Othniel Looker
Thomas Worthington
Preceded byThomas Gibson
Succeeded byRalph Osborn
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives
from the Jefferson County district
In office
December 7, 1807 – February 29, 1808
Serving with Thomas Elliott
Thomas McCune
Preceded byThomas Elliott
Samuel Boyd
John McLaughlin
Succeeded byJames Pritchard
Samuel Dunlap
Thomas McCune
Member of the Ohio Senate
from the Jefferson County district
In office
December 2, 1805 – December 6, 1807
Serving with James Pritchard
John Taggart
Preceded byJohn Milligan
James Pritchard
Succeeded byJohn McLaughlin
John McConnell
Member of the Ohio Senate
from the Ross County district
In office
December 4, 1815 – November 30, 1817
Serving with John McDonald
James Dunlap
Preceded byHenry Brush
James Dunlap
William Creighton, Sr.
Succeeded byJames Dunlap
John McDonald
Personal details
Born1773
Virginia
DiedSeptember 4, 1819
Chillicothe, Ohio
Resting placeGrandview Cemetery
Political partyDemocratic Republican
SpouseElizabeth Core

Benjamin Hough[pronunciation?] (1773 – September 4, 1819) was the second State Auditor of the U.S. State of Ohio from 1808 to 1815. He also served in local political offices and in both houses of the Ohio General Assembly.

Hough was born in Virginia.[1] He was in Jefferson County, Northwest Territory by 1802 when he surveyed Cross Creek Township into quarter sections.[2] He was elected a county commissioner at the first election, April 2, 1804, after Ohio became a state.[3]

Hough represented Jefferson County in the Ohio State Senate 1805 to 1807,[4] and the Ohio House of Representatives 1807 to 1808.[5] Thomas Gibson resigned as Ohio State Auditor March 1, 1808.[6] The legislature had adjourned February 22, 1808, and would not meet again until December,[7] so Governor Thomas Kirker appointed Hough as Auditor.

Hough was re-elected by the legislature December 18, 1809,[8] and again February 20, 1812,[9] serving until March 15, 1815.[6] He remained in the capital, Chillicothe, after his term, and was elected again to the Ohio Senate, 1815 to 1816, from Ross County.[10] He was a Democratic-Republican Party Presidential elector in 1816 for Monroe/Tompkins. [11]

Hough was married to Elizabeth Core on August 29, 1806, by Stephen Ford, justice of the Peace, in Jefferson County.[12] Hough died at Chillicothe, leaving his widow and children. He is buried at Grandview Cemetery.[13][14]

Notes

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  1. ^ "Benjamin Hough". GENi.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
  2. ^ Hunter, W.H. (1900). "The Pathfinders of Jefferson County Supplementary to vol VI". Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications. VIII: 153.
  3. ^ Hunter, W.H. (1898). "The Pathfinders of Jefferson County". Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications. VI: 217.
  4. ^ Ohio 1917 : 217
  5. ^ Ohio 1917 : 255
  6. ^ a b Wikoff, Allen T. (1875). Annual report of the secretary of state to the Governor of the state of Ohio for the year 1874. Columbus: Nevins & Myers, State Printers. p. 12.
  7. ^ Taylor 1899 : 51
  8. ^ Taylor 1899 : 60
  9. ^ Taylor 1899 : 71
  10. ^ Ohio 1917 : 219
  11. ^ Taylor 1899 : 102
  12. ^ Tope, Melancthon (1896). History of The Tope Family. p. 18. Archived from the original on 2008-12-26. Retrieved 2012-01-09.
  13. ^ Jefferson County Ohio Genealogy Trails Newspaper Notices, Jefferson County, Ohio Page 62
  14. ^ Grandview Cemetery burials

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