biography
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| (1794–1865)
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| biography:
| US representative, senator, governor, and lawyer, born in Bourbon Co, Kentucky, USA. He served in the US House of Representatives (Whig, Ohio, 1831–40), then became Ohio's governor (1841–3). In the US Senate (1845–50), he denounced the Mexican War, predicting that acquisition of more territory would incite regional conflict. He served as treasury secretary to President Millard Fillmore (1851–3), then joined the Republican Party, becoming Lincoln's ambassador to Mexico (1861–4). |
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