- Samuel Medary
Infobox_Governor
name= Samuel Medary
caption=
order=3rd
title=Territorial Governor of Minnesota
term_start=April 23 ,1857
term_end=May 24 ,1858
predecessor=Willis Arnold Gorman
successor=Henry Hastings Sibley
birth_date= birth date|1801|2|25|mf=y
birth_place=Montgomery County, Pennsylvania ,United States
death_date= death date and age|1864|11|7|1801|2|25|mf=y
death_place=Columbus, Ohio ,United States
party= Democrat
profession= newspaper owner
spouse=
religion=
footnotes=Samuel Medary (
February 25 ,1801 –November 7 ,1864 ) Born and raised inMontgomery County, Pennsylvania , he settled inOhio in 1825. After a term in the Ohio legislature (1834) and state senate (1836-38) as aJackson Democrat , he purchased a newspaper in Columbus that became the "Ohio Statesman", which he edited until 1857. Active at the National Democratic Conventions atBaltimore in 1844, where he was instrumental in the nomination ofJames K. Polk ; and atCincinnati in 1856, where he was the President pro tem. PresidentJames Buchanan appointed him as the 3rd TerritorialGovernor of Minnesota fromApril 23 ,1857 toMay 24 ,1858 . Minnesota became a state onMay 11 ,1858 and electedHenry Hastings Sibley .Samuel Medary was also Governor of
Kansas Territory from December 1858 to December 1860.William F. Wheeler was territory Librarian and the Governor's Secretary while in office.Returning to Ohio, he established a newspaper he named "The Crisis". Medary was indicted by a federal
grand jury in 1864 for conspiracy against the government and was arrested. He was released on bonds, but died inColumbus, Ohio before he could be tried.One of the first townsites in Dakota Territory is named after Medary. The town of
Medaryville, Indiana was also named after him. In Columbus, OH a street dating back to the early 1900's was also named after him, Medary Ave.
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