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Mordecai Bartley

American politician (1783–1870)

Summary

American politician (1783–1870)

Field	Value
name	Mordecai Bartley
image	Mordecai Bartley 002.png
order	18th
office	Governor of Ohio
term_start	December 3, 1844
term_end	December 12, 1846
preceded	Thomas W. Bartley
succeeded	William Bebb
state2	Ohio
district2	14th
term_start2	March 4, 1823
term_end2	March 4, 1831
preceded2	new district
succeeded2	Eleutheros Cooke
state_senate3	Ohio
district3	Coshocton
term_start3	December 2, 1816
term_end3	December 6, 1818
preceded3	William Gavit
Abraham Shane
succeeded3	John Spencer
Joseph Wampler
alongside3	Abraham Shane
Joseph Wampler
party	Whig
birth_date
birth_place	Fayette County, Pennsylvania
death_date
death_place	Mansfield, Ohio, U.S.
restingplace	Mansfield Cemetery

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

Biography

Bartley was born in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. After attending the local school in Virginia, he married Elizabeth Welles in 1804 and moved to Jefferson County, Ohio.

Bartley served as a captain, and then an adjutant during the War of 1812. Following his service under General William Henry Harrison in the War, Bartley moved to Richland County, Ohio, near Mansfield.

While farming, he was elected and served one term 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.

He ran for governor in 1844 as a Whig after David Spangler, the original nominee, declined to run. Bartley served a single term from 1844 to 1846 before retiring again. While he was Governor, Ohio raised forty companies and 7,000 men for the Mexican–American War.

References

{{Ohio History Central. 58. Mordecai Bartley
"Ohio Governor Mordecai Bartley". National Governors Association.
[[#taylor1899. Taylor 1899]]: 193
(1937). "Ohio, A four volume reference library on the History of a Great State". Lewis Publishing Company.

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