biography
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| (1771–1852)
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| biography:
| US representative, senator, and governor, born in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA. A self-educated surveyor who promoted Ohio's statehood in 1800, he sponsored legislation for affordable public land sales in Congress (Republican, Ohio, 1803–13) and the Senate (1813–19). As governor (1823–6), he promoted public education and canal-building programmes. He returned to Congress as a Whig (1840–3). |
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