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Thomas W. Bartley

American judge (1812–1885)

Summary

American judge (1812–1885)

Field	Value
name	Thomas Welles Bartley
image	Thomas W. Bartley.png
order	17th
office	Governor of Ohio
term_start	April 15, 1844
term_end	December 3, 1844
preceded	Wilson Shannon
succeeded	Mordecai Bartley
order1	28th
office1	Speaker of the Ohio Senate
term_start1	December 4, 1843
term_end1	December 1, 1844
preceded1	Wilson Shannon
succeeded1	Mordecai Bartley
office2	Associate Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
term_start2	February 2, 1852
term_end2	February 9, 1859
preceded2	Rufus Paine Spalding
succeeded2	William Virgil Peck
office3	Member of the Ohio House of Representatives from Richland County
term_start3	1839
term_end3	1841
preceded3	James Comings
succeeded3	R. W. Cahill
James P. Henderson
office4	Member of the Ohio Senate from Richland County
term_start4	1841
term_end4	1845
preceded4	William McLaughlin
succeeded4	Joseph Newman
party	Democratic
birth_date
birth_place	Jefferson County, Ohio, U.S.
death_date
death_place	Washington, D.C., U.S.
restingplace	Glenwood Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
alma_mater	Jefferson College
spouse	{{plainlist

James P. Henderson

Julia Maria Larwill
Susan D. Sherman
Ellen McCoy Thomas Welles Bartley (February 11, 1812 – June 20, 1885) was an American Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Ohio. He served as the 17th governor of Ohio. Bartley was succeeded in office by his father, Mordecai Bartley, one of only a few instances of this occurring in high elected office in the United States.

Biography

Bartley was born in Jefferson County, Ohio on February 11, 1812. As a child, he moved to Mansfield, Ohio with his family. Bartley attended Jefferson College and graduated in 1829. He studied law with Jacob Parker in Mansfield, Ohio, and studied law with Elijah Hayward in Washington, D.C.. Bartley was admitted to the bar in 1833, and began practice in Mansfield.

Career

Bartley served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1839 to 1841 and then in the Ohio State Senate from 1841 to 1845. He was elected Speaker of the Senate in 1843.

When Wilson Shannon resigned as governor on April 15, 1844, to take a diplomatic appointment as United States ambassador to Mexico, Bartley became Governor while concurrently remaining in the Senate. He served out the remainder of Shannon's term until December 3. Bartley sought renomination under the Democratic Party, but lost at the state convention by a single vote - avoiding a contest against his father, who accepted the Whig nomination. Bartley later served a contentious term on the Ohio State Supreme Court from 1852 to 1859.

Bartley lived in Mansfield, Ohio, and moved to Cincinnati, Ohio to practice law in 1863, and in 1867 to Washington, D.C., where he died in 1885. He was interred at Glenwood Cemetery.

Family life

On October 9, 1837, Bartley married his first wife, Julia Maria Larwill, in Wooster, Ohio. Bartley married his second wife, Susan D. Sherman (October 10, 1825– January 10, 1876), sister of John Sherman and General William Tecumseh Sherman, on November 7, 1848,. Ellen McCoy, widow of one of General Sherman's staff officers, was his third wife.

Death

Bartley was buried at Glenwood Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

References

"Ohio Governor Thomas Welles Bartley". National Governors Association.
{{Ohio History Central. 57. Thomas W. Bartley
"THOMAS W. BARTLEY". The Ohio Historical Society.
"Thomas Welles Bartley". The Supreme Court of Ohio & The Ohio Judicial System.
Kerr, ''William Tecumseh Sherman: A Family Chronicle'' 102 (1984)
(1901). "A Centennial biographical history of Richland County, Ohio". Lewis Publishing Company.

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