MORROW, JEREMIAH, a Representative and a Senator from Ohio; born near Gettysburg, Pa., October 6,
1771; attended the public schools; moved to that part of the Northwest Territory which is now the
State of Ohio in 1795; surveyor; engaged in agricultural pursuits; member, Territorial house of
representatives 1801-1802; member, State senate 1803; upon the admission of Ohio as a State into
the Union was elected as a Democratic Republican to the Eighth and to the four succeeding
Congresses and served from October 17, 1803, to March 3, 1813; did not seek renomination in
1812, having become a candidate for Senator; chairman, Committee on Public Lands (Tenth through
Twelfth Congresses); elected as a Democratic Republican to the United States Senate and served
from March 4, 1813, to March 3, 1819; was not a candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on
Public Lands (Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses); State canal commissioner 1822; Governor of
Ohio 1822-1826; member, State senate 1827-1828; member, State house of representatives 1829,
1835; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Thomas Corwin and on the same day was elected to the Twenty-seventh Congress and served from
October 13, 1840, to March 3, 1843; declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1842;
chairman, Committee on Public Lands (Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses); resumed
agricultural pursuits; died near Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, March 22, 1852; interment in Union
Cemetery, on the Montgomery Pike, near his home, in Warren County, Ohio.
