60 Notable alumni of
Ohio Northern University
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Ohio Northern University is 1691st in the world, 599th in North America, and 564th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 60 notable alumni from Ohio Northern University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Mike DeWine
- Enrolled in Ohio Northern University
- In 1972 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Richard Michael DeWine is an American politician and attorney serving since 2019 as the 70th governor of Ohio. He served as the 50th Attorney General of Ohio from 2011 to 2019, and in both houses of Congress: in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 1991 and in the U.S. Senate from 1995 to 2007. He is a member of the Republican Party.
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Bob Peterson
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriteractorvoice actoranimator
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Robert Peterson is an American animator, director, screenwriter, storyboard supervisor and voice actor who works at Pixar. He was hired at Pixar by Roger Gould in 1994 as an animator for commercials, before subsequently becoming an animator on Toy Story (1995). He was the co-director and co-writer for Up (2009), in which he also voiced the characters Dug and Alpha. His work as a writer for the films Up and Finding Nemo (2003) earned him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He was also a co-writer on Cars 3 (2017) and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Animated Program for his work on Forky Asks A Question (2020).
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George Getty
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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George Franklin Getty was an American lawyer, pioneer oilman, father of industrialist J. Paul Getty, and patriarch of the Getty family.
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Benjamin Brafman
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Benjamin Brafman is an American criminal defense attorney and founder of the Manhattan-based law firm Brafman & Associates. Brafman is known for representing many high-profile defendants, including celebrities, accused Mafia members, and political figures.
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Mike Turner
- Enrolled in Ohio Northern University
- In 1982 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Michael Ray Turner is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from Ohio's 10th congressional district since 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party. Turner's district, numbered as the 3rd district from 2003 to 2013, is based in Dayton and consists of part of Clark County and all of Montgomery and Greene Counties.
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Tom Reed
- Enrolled in Ohio Northern University
- In 1996 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyerbusiness executivescreenwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Thomas Willard Reed II is an American lobbyist, attorney, and politician from the state of New York. Reed served as the U.S. representative for New York's 23rd congressional district; the district is in New York's Southern Tier. A Republican, Reed first joined the U.S. House after winning a special election to replace Eric Massa in 2010. He previously served one term as mayor of Corning, New York.
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Joseph Banks Rhine
- Occupations
- botanistparapsychologist
- Biography
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Joseph Banks Rhine, usually known as J. B. Rhine, was an American botanist who founded parapsychology as a branch of psychology, founding the parapsychology lab at Duke University, the Journal of Parapsychology, the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man, and the Parapsychological Association. Rhine wrote the books Extrasensory Perception and Parapsychology: Frontier Science of the Mind.
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Buck Rodgers
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Robert Leroy "Buck" Rodgers is an American former professional baseball player, coach, and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a catcher for the Los Angeles / California Angels for nine seasons during the 1960s. He later managed three major-league teams: the Milwaukee Brewers, Montreal Expos, and California Angels, compiling a managerial record of 784–774 (.503).
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George Washington Crile
- Occupations
- surgeon
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George Washington Crile was an American surgeon. Crile is now formally recognized as the first surgeon to have succeeded in a direct blood transfusion. He contributed to other procedures, such as neck dissection. Crile designed a small hemostatic forceps which bears his name; the Crile mosquito clamp. He also described a technique for using opioids, regional anesthesia and general anesthesia which is a concept known as balanced anesthesia. He is also known for co-founding the Cleveland Clinic in 1921.
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Anthony J. Celebrezze
- Occupations
- politicianjudge
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Anthony Joseph Celebrezze Sr. was an American politician of the Democratic Party, who served as the 49th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, as a cabinet member in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
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Bill Peterson
- Occupations
- player of American footballAmerican football coach
- Biography
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William E. Peterson was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. His career included head coaching stops at Florida State University, Rice University and with the Houston Oilers of the National Football League (NFL). Considered one of the unique characters in college sports, Peterson is credited with bringing the pro passing game to college football. He is also known as the "Coach of Coaches", having tutored such coaches as Joe Gibbs, Bill Parcells, Bobby Bowden, Don James, Dan Henning, Ken Meyer and many others. Coach "Pete", as he was known, is also remembered for his reshaping of the English language. One of his more novel expressions was to have his team "pair off in groups of threes, then line up in a circle." Beyond his trials with syntax, Peterson is best remembered for bringing the Seminoles to the forefront of college football, using pro-style offenses and a much feared passing game.
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Frank B. Willis
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Frank Bartlett Willis was an American politician and lawyer. He was a Republican from Ohio. He served as the 47th governor of Ohio from 1915 to 1917, then served as a U.S. Senator from Ohio from 1921 until his death in 1928.
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James Brainard
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James Brainard is a retired American politician of the Republican Party who served as the fifth mayor of Carmel, Indiana, a principal city in the Indianapolis metropolitan area from 1996 to 2024. At the time he left office on January 4, 2024, he was one of Indiana's longest serving mayors. During his tenure as mayor, Carmel's population grew from 25,000 in 1996 to 102,000 in 2021 and saw the creation of a new downtown called City Center, where a new 1,600-seat concert hall, The Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, opened in 2011. Two smaller theaters opened as well, in addition to the redevelopment of the oldest part of town into a new Arts & Design District. Brainard announced in September 2022 that he would not run for re-election in 2023, and his term expired on January 4, 2024, after which point he was succeeded by fellow Republican Sue Finkam.
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Simeon D. Fess
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Simeon Davison Fess was a Republican politician and educator from Ohio, United States. He served in the United States House of Representatives (1915 to 1923) and U.S. Senate (1923 to 1935).
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Del Latta
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Delbert Leroy Latta was an American lawyer and politician who served 15 terms as a United States Representative from Ohio's 5th district from 1959 to 1989. A Republican, he is one of the state's longest-serving politicians as well as the father of Bob Latta, who has held his father's congressional seat since 2007.
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Jason Trusnik
- Occupations
- player of American football
- Biography
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Jason Trusnik is a former American football linebacker and special teamer. He was signed by the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He played college football at Ohio Northern.
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Robert Sprague
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert Cole Sprague is an American politician serving as the 49th and current Ohio Treasurer of State. Prior to his election as treasurer, he represented the 83rd district in the Ohio House of Representatives, and served as city auditor and treasurer in his hometown of Findlay. He is a member of the Republican Party.
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Robert R. Cupp
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Robert Richard Cupp is an American politician who served as the Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives until December 31, 2022. He served in the House of Representatives from 2015, representing District 4 (Lima). He was elected as speaker on July 30, 2020, replacing Larry Householder who was removed from the position following his arrest on federal bribery charges. Cupp is a former justice of the Ohio Supreme Court.
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Benjamin Franklin Fairless
- Occupations
- civil engineerengineer
- Biography
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Benjamin Franklin Fairless was an American steel company executive. He was president of a wide range of steel companies during a turbulent and formative period in the American steel industry. His roles included President of Central Alloy Steel from 1928 to 1930; First Vice President of Republic Steel (which had absorbed Central Steel) from 1930 to 1935; President of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Company from 1935 to 1938; and then President (1938–1955), and later Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the board of directors (1952–1955) of U.S. Steel, the largest steel corporation in the United States.
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Jamal Robertson
- Occupations
- player of American footballCanadian football player
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Jamal Robertson is a former American and Canadian football running back and kick returner. He played college football at Ohio Northern and played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) and Canadian Football League (CFL) from 2001 to 2011.
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Arthur Raymond Robinson
- Occupations
- lawyerwriterpoliticianjudge
- Biography
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Arthur Raymond Robinson was a United States senator from Indiana.
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Cassius Jackson Keyser
- Enrolled in Ohio Northern University
- Studied in 1879-1883
- Occupations
- journalistphilosophermathematician
- Biography
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Cassius Jackson Keyser was an American mathematician of pronounced philosophical inclinations.
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Grant E. Mouser
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Grant Earl Mouser was a U.S. Representative from Ohio for two terms from 1905 to 1909.
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George Rappleyea
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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George Washington Rappleyea was an American metallurgical engineer and the manager of the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company in Dayton, Tennessee. He held this position in the summer of 1925 when he became the chief architect of the Scopes trial. During a meeting at Robinson's Drug Store, it was Rappleyea who convinced a group of Dayton businessmen to sponsor a test case of the Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in the state's schools. Rappleyea is held responsible for convincing John T. Scopes to be the defendant in the famous "Monkey" Trial.
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Stephanie L. Haines
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Stephanie Lou Haines is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
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Baldemar Velasquez
- Occupations
- farmworkertrade unionist
- Biography
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Baldemar Velásquez is an American labor union activist. He co-founded and is president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO. He was named a MacArthur Fellow (also known as the "Genius Grant") in 1989, and awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle in 1994, the highest honor Mexico can bestow on a non-citizen.
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George E. Killian
- Occupations
- sports officialbasketball coach
- Biography
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George Ernest Killian was an American sports administrator, president of the International University Sports Federation (FISU) and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA)
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Frank T. Bow
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Frank Townsend Bow was a noted Ohio jurist and politician who served as a Republican Congressman in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1951, until his death from heart failure in Bethesda, Maryland on November 13, 1972.
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Ernest Carroll Moore
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Ernest Carroll Moore was an American educator. He co-founded the University of California, Southern Branch, in Los Angeles, California.
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John M. Robsion
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerteacher
- Biography
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John Marshall Robsion, a Republican, represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
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Edward Albert Ostermann
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Edward Albert Ostermann was a United States Marine Corps major general who received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the U.S. occupation of Haiti.
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Cheryl L. Mason
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- lawyer
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Cheryl L. Mason is an American attorney, and former executive and government official for the Department of Veterans Affairs. From November 2017 until August 2022, she served as the fourth Senate-confirmed first woman and military spouse Chairman of the Board of Veterans' Appeals. In 2020, she was named a PREVENTS Task Force Ambassador, along with Lead Ambassador Second Lady Karen Pence. PREVENTS was the first national public health campaign to address suicide prevention. Previously Mason served as Deputy Vice Chairman, Chief Veterans Law Judge, and Veterans Law Judge at the Board. Starting in early 2021, Chairman Mason has worked closely with First Lady Dr. Jill Biden’s Joining Forces initiative to address the challenges and issues of military and veterans families to include military spouse employment and veterans transition. Chairman Mason also serves as a VA champion and advocate for suicide prevention.
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Walter Curran Mendenhall
- Occupations
- geologist
- Biography
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Walter Curran Mendenhall, was the fifth director of the United States Geological Survey.
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Robert Franklin Jones
- Enrolled in Ohio Northern University
- Studied in 1929
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Robert Franklin Jones was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio for four terms from 1939 to 1947.
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Gregory L. Frost
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Gregory Lynn Frost is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
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Ralph Dayton Cole
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Ralph Dayton Cole was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1905 to 1911. He was the brother of Raymond Clinton Cole, who also served in Congress.
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Benjamin Finkel
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Benjamin Franklin Finkel was a mathematician and educator most remembered today as the founder of the American Mathematical Monthly journal. Born in Fairfield County, Ohio and educated in small country schools, Finkel received both a BS and MA from Ohio Northern University, then known as Ohio Normal University (1888 and 1891, respectively). In 1888 he copyrighted A Mathematical Solution Book. The purpose of the book was to provide mathematics teachers a text utilizing a systematic method of problem solving, "The Step Method", representing a chain of reasoning, in logical order, to arrive at the correct result. The first edition was postponed until 1893, due to financial problems of the original publisher. The book's preface stated that the work was based upon eight years of teaching in the public schools. This was followed by following editions in 1897, 1899 and 1902. In 1895 he became professor of mathematics and physics at Drury University, then known as Drury College. He was a University Scholar in Mathematics at the University of Chicago from 1895–1896. In 1906 he was awarded a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania, where he had earlier earned an additional master's degree in 1904 and a Harrison fellow appointment in 1905. He was a member of the American Mathematical Society, 1891; the London Mathematical Society, 1898; and Circolo Matematico di Palermo, 1902. He retained his professorship at Drury College until his death in 1947.
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Kirtland I. Perky
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Kirtland Irving Perky was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Idaho.
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Earl D. Bloom
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Earl D. Bloom was an American politician who served as the 35th, 37th and 39th lieutenant governor of Ohio from 1917 to 1919, 1923 to 1925, and 1927 to 1928.
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R. Clint Cole
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Raymond Clinton Cole was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1919 to 1925. He was the brother of Ralph Dayton Cole, who also served in Congress.
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Benjamin F. Welty
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Benjamin Franklin Welty was an American soldier, attorney, and a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1917 to 1921.
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Jane Earll
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jane M. Earll is an American attorney, politician and former Republican member of the Pennsylvania State Senate who represented the 49th District from 1997 to 2013.
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Anthony A. Alaimo
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Anthony Alfred Alaimo was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia.
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Louis W. Fairfield
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Louis William Fairfield was an American educator and politician who served four terms as a U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1917 to 1925.
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Charles H. Lewis
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Charles Hendrickson Lewis was an American politician who served as the 38th lieutenant governor of Ohio from 1925 to 1927.
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Homer Alonzo Ramey
- Enrolled in Ohio Northern University
- In 1916 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Homer Alonzo Ramey was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1943 to 1949.
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Charles Cyrus Kearns
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Charles Cyrus Kearns was an American lawyer and politician who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio from 1915 to 1931.
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Arthur W. Overmyer
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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Arthur Warren Overmyer was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, and a judge on the Ohio Court of Appeals.
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Reuben Melville Wanamaker
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Reuben Melville Wanamaker was a judge in the U.S. state of Ohio. He served on the Ohio Supreme Court from 1913 until he took his life in 1924.
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Jacob Henry Miller
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Jacob Henry Miller was a lawyer from the U.S. State of Ohio who served as President of the Ohio State Senate.
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Edward Oscar McCowen
- Enrolled in Ohio Northern University
- Studied in 1908
- Occupations
- politicianhead teacherteacher
- Biography
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Edward Oscar McCowen was a three-term Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio from 1943 to 1949.
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Girard Edward Kalbfleisch
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Girard Edward Kalbfleisch was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
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Thomas Weidley
- Enrolled in Ohio Northern University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering
- Occupations
- military leader
- Biography
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Thomas D. Weidley is a United States Marine Corps major general who most recently served as the Assistant Chief of Staff for Strategic Planning and Policy of the United Nations Command, ROK/US Combined Forces Command, and United States Forces Korea. Previously, he served as the Commander of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing.
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Charles Carl Crabbe
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Charles Carl Crabbe was a lawyer from the U.S. state of Ohio who was a legislator in the Ohio House of Representatives and served as Ohio Attorney General 1923–1927.
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Edward S. Matthias
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Edward Shiloh Matthias was a Republican lawyer from the U.S. state of Ohio who served the longest term in state history as a judge on the Ohio Supreme Court, more than 38 years.
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Charles L. Swain
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Charles L. Swain was a Democratic politician from Cincinnati, Ohio, United States who was Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, and an unsuccessful candidate for Ohio's 2nd congressional district.
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William Frederick Garver
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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William Frederick Garver was a judge from the U.S. State of Ohio who sat on the Ohio District Courts of Appeals and the Ohio Supreme Court during the 1930s.
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George E. Kryder
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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George E. Kryder was a Republican politician from Henry County, Ohio. He was President of the Ohio Senate in 1923 and 1924.
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Walter Frank Rittman
- Years
- 1883-1954 (aged 71)
- Occupations
- chemical engineer
- Biography
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Walter Frank Rittman was a chemical engineer with the United States Bureau of Mines.
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Charles D. Conover
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Charles D. Conover was a Republican politician in the U.S. state of Ohio who was Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives 1915–1916.
