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Title
Thomas
Corwin
Portrait
Subject
Ohio Government
Presidents and Politics
Arts and Entertainment
Governors
Place
Lebanon (Ohio)
Warren County (Ohio)
Description
Thomas
Corwin
(1794-1865)
,
shown
in this
framed
portrait
that
measures
39
by
48.5
inches
(99.06
by
123.19
cm)
, was
born
in
Bourbon
County
,
Kentucky
. His
family
moved
to
Lebanon
,
Ohio
when
he was
four
years
old
.
Matthias
Corwin
, his
father
,
served
several
terms
in the
Ohio
House
of
Representatives
.
Corwin's
political
career
began
in
1818
,
when
he
served
as
Warren
County
prosecuting
attorney
. A
member
of the
Whig
Party
,
Corwin
served
two
terms
in the
state
legislature
and
five
terms
in the
U
.
S
.
Congress
,
where
he
gained
a
reputation
for his
sharp
,
witty
debates
. In
1840
Corwin
was
elected
governor
of
Ohio
. He
wryly
declared
that his
duties
in that
office
were "to
appoint
notaries
public
and
pardon
convicts
in the
penitentiary.
" He
suffered
his
only
political
loss
in
1842
,
when
he
ran
for
re-election
.
Corwin
served
in the
U
.
S
.
Senate
from
1845-1850
and
led
the
Whig
opposition
to the
Mexican
War
. He
resigned
to
serve
in the
cabinet
of
President
Millard
Fillmore
as
secretary
of the
treasury
from
1850-1853
.
Retiring
from
politics
, he
returned
to his
law
practice
in
Lebanon
.
Corwin
was
re-elected
to
Congress
in
1860
.
Hoping
to
avoid
a
sectional
split
, he
authored
the "
Corwin
Amendment
"
which
would have
made
any
interference
with
slavery
where
it
existed
unconstitutional
.
Abraham
Lincoln
appointed
Corwin
minister
to
Mexico
.
Corwin
succeeded
in the
diplomatic
battle
with his
Confederate
counterpart
to
retain
Mexico's
support
for the
Union
during
the
Civil
War
.
John
Henry
Witt
(1840-1901)
painted
this
portrait
. A
native
of
Indiana
, he
studied
art
in
Cincinnati
before
settling
in
Columbus
. In
1865
,
Witt
won
a
cash
award
at the
Ohio
State
Fair
for the
best
oil
painting
by an
Ohio
artist
. This
is
one
of
thirteen
gubernatorial
portraits
painted
by the
artist
.
Creator
Witt, John Henry
Date of Original
1850
circa
Source
Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution
State Library of Ohio
Rights
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om1033_935276_001.tif
Image Height
1752
Image Width
1412
File Size
584.683 KB
Format
picture
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