Mordecai Bartley

Mordecai Bartley (December 16, 1783 – October 10, 1870) was a Whig politician from Ohio. He served as the 18th Governor of Ohio. Bartley succeeded his son, Thomas W. Bartley as governor, one of only a few instances of this happening in the United States in high offices.

Bartley was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. After attending school in Virginia, he moved to Jefferson County, Ohio. Following his service under General William Henry Harrison in the War of 1812, Bartley moved to Richland County, Ohio, near Mansfield. Engaged as a farmer, he served in the Ohio State Senate from 1816 to 1818. Elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1822, Bartley served four terms before declining to be renominated in 1830.

Bartley was an Ohio Whig Party Presidential elector in 1836 for William Henry Harrison.^[1]

He ran for governor in 1844 as a Whig - his son was a Democrat - after the candidate whom the Whigs had originally nominated, David Spangler, declined the nomination. Bartley served a single term from 1844 to 1846 before retiring once again.

External Links

1. ^ Taylor 1899 : 193

• Mordecai Bartley at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Biography at the National Governors Association
• Taylor, William Alexander; Taylor, Aubrey Clarence (1899). Ohio statesmen and annals of progress: from the year 1788 to the year 1900 .... 1. State of Ohio. p. 193. http://books.google.com/books?id=ztegAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA193. 

Political offices
Preceded by Thomas W. Bartley	Governor of Ohio 1844–1846	Succeeded by William Bebb
Ohio Senate
Preceded by William Gavit	Senator from Licking, Knox, and Richland Counties 1816–1818	Succeeded by John Spencer
United States House of Representatives
New district	United States Representative from Ohio's 14th congressional district 1823-03-04 – 1831-03-03	Succeeded by Eleutheros Cooke

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Name	Bartley, Mordecai
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Date of birth	December 16, 1783
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Date of death	October 10, 1870
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