An additional near Kansas City International Airport is signed along with Interstate 29 and U. S. Route 71, making I-435 the second-longest complete beltway numbered as a single Interstate Highway in the U. S., and fifth longest in the world after Cincinnati, Ohio's Interstate 275 at, Houston, Texas's Beltway 8 at, Berlin's Bundesautobahn 10 at, and London's M25 motorway at.

John W. Brown is Ohio's longest serving Lieutenant Governor, having served under three different governors from 1953 – 1957 and 1963 – 1975.

Serving her fourteenth term in the House of Representatives, Kaptur is the dean of Ohio's congressional delegation, the longest currently-serving woman in the House and the second longest-serving ever after Edith Rogers ; in the Congress, she is currently tied for the third longest-serving woman with Senator Barbara Boxer, behind Senators Barbara Mikulski and Olympia Snowe.

Stuart's Opera House, built in 1879, is one of Ohio's last remaining fully operating opera houses, and is located in Nelsonville's Historic Square Arts District.

The Western Star is Ohio's oldest weekly newspaper and second oldest of any sort after the daily Chillicothe Gazette.

The paper, based in Lebanon, Ohio for more than 200 years, closed its Lebanon office in 2010 as part of a consolidation of Cox Media Group Ohio's weekly newspaper facilities to Liberty Township, Butler County, Ohio.

The Chillicothe Gazette, Ohio's oldest newspaper, published daily at Chillicothe, Ohio, the seat of Ross County, Ohio, by the Gannett Company.

The paper eventually assumed the name The Chillicothe Gazette and continues as Ohio's oldest newspaper.

As a political novice, Cafaro won a surprise victory in the 2004 Democratic primary for Ohio's 14th congressional district, topping a five-candidate field, which included 2002 nominee Dale V. Blanchard, columnist Herb Hammer, U. S. Marine Charles L. Wolfe, and Ohio state Rep. Edward Jerse ( who received the endorsement of the Akron Beacon Journal newspaper ).

When Thomson decided to exit the newspaper business in 2000, the papers were sold to Cox Communications, along with ten other papers, including the daily Middletown Journal and Ohio's oldest weekly, The Western Star, effective September 2, 2000.

There he met Jim Lancaster, promoter of Ohio's Midwest Championship Wrestling, who agreed to train him.

When Michigan sought statehood in the early 1830s, it sought to include the disputed territory within its boundaries ; Ohio's Congressional delegation was in turn able to halt Michigan's admission to the Union.

When Congress passed the Enabling Act of 1802, which authorized Ohio to begin the process of becoming a U. S. state, the language defining Ohio's northern boundary differed slightly from that used in the Northwest Ordinance: the border was to be " an east and west line drawn through the southern extreme of Lake Michigan, running east ... until it shall intersect Lake Erie or the territorial line Canada ; thence with the same, through Lake Erie to the Pennsylvania line aforesaid.

Because the territorial boundary line between the U. S. and Canada ran through the middle of Lake Erie and then up the Detroit River, combined with the prevailing belief regarding the location of the southern tip of Lake Michigan, the framers of the 1802 Ohio Constitution believed it was the intent of Congress that Ohio's northern boundary should certainly be north of the mouth of the Maumee River, and possibly even of the Detroit River.

The draft constitution with this proviso was accepted by the United States Congress, but before Ohio's admission to the Union in February 1803, the proposed constitution was referred to a Congressional committee.

Ohio was a crucial swing state in presidential elections, and it would have been devastating to the fledgling Democratic Party to lose Ohio's electoral votes.

In Michigan v. Ohio, the court upheld a special master's report and ruled that the boundary between the two states in Lake Erie was angled to the northeast, as described in Ohio's state constitution, and not a straight east-west line.

By 1914 the Republican Party was beginning to show signs of reunification, with the result that support weakened for Ohio's U. S. Senator Theodore Burton, who then decided not to stand for re-election.

Harding's general election opponent, Timothy Hogan, fell victim to fervid anti-Catholic sentiment ( which Harding did not voice ) and Harding was elected to the U. S. Senate, becoming Ohio's first senator elected by popular vote.

The office was established in 1789 by Article I, Section 2 of the United States Constitution, which states in part, " The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker ..." The current speaker is John Boehner, a Republican who represents Ohio's 8th congressional district.

In 1854, he was elected a Republican to the United States House of Representatives for Ohio's thirteenth district where he was the Republican candidate for Speaker in the long contest of 1859 – 60 and served as chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means from 1860 to 1861.

Clermont County was the birthplace of Ohio's first Democratic governor of the 20th century in 1847, John Pattison of Milford.

Unlike Pennsylvania's oil, northwest Ohio's " sour crude " was high in sulfur content, smelling like rotten eggs, and customers shunned it.

It was the home of Ohio's fifth governor Othneil Looker.

Willoughby's first permanent settler was David Abbott in 1798, pre-dating Ohio's bid for statehood by five years.

Marion was one of Ohio's major industrial centers until the 1970s.

Pandora was once possibly Ohio's largest industrial area until several fires burned down the business district of Pandora numerous times.

The installation was named Fort Meigs in honor of Ohio's fourth governor, Return Jonathan Meigs.

Up until April 30, 1971, Rockwood was a stop on the Baltimore & Ohio's daily Washington — Akron passenger train.

: Ohio's response was unsettling.

The first IL team in Ohio's capital, the Columbus Jets, was the transplanted Ottawa Athletics which moved to Columbus in 1955.

Brandenburg was charged with advocating violence under Ohio's criminal syndicalism statute for his participation in the rally and for the speech he made.

On July 4, 1800, in preparation for Ohio's statehood, the Indiana Territory was decreed by an act of the U. S. Congress, signed into law by President John Adams on May 7, 1800, effective on July 4.

Deborah D. Pryce ( born July 29, 1951 in Warren, Ohio ) is an American politician from Ohio and former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for Ohio's 15th congressional district, which includes the western half of Columbus and the surrounding suburbs.

* David Robinson ( Ohio candidate ) ( born 1961 ), American political figure ; 2008 Democratic nominee for Ohio's 12th congressional district

* William O ' Neill ( Ohio jurist ) ( born 1947 ), appellate judge and 2008 candidate for U. S. Representative from Ohio's 14th congressional district

Charles J. Luken ( born July 18, 1951, in Cincinnati, Ohio ) is an American politician of the Democratic party who was mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio and served in the Ohio's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.

Robert D. " Bob " McEwen ( born January 12, 1950 ) is a lobbyist and American politician of the Republican Party, who was a member of the United States House of Representatives from southern Ohio's Sixth District, from January 3, 1981 to January 3, 1993.

Charles W. Sanders ( born May 12, 1947 ) is an insurance agent, tour bus driver, and retired Ohio auto worker who has run as a Democrat for the U. S. House of Representatives four times in Ohio's heavily Republican Second Congressional District from 1998 to 2004, losing four times to incumbent Congressman Robert J. Portman.

* Brian Williams ( politician ) ( born 1942 ), member of the US state of Ohio's House of Representatives

Bruce Edward Johnson ( born May 25, 1960 ) is an American lawyer and Republican politician who was appointed the State of Ohio's 63rd Lieutenant Governor on January 5, 2005, to complete an unexpired term.

Clancy was born in Cincinnati, in Ohio's Hamilton County.

Charles Somers aka Charles W. Somers, ( born October 13, 1868 in Newark, Ohio-June 29, 1934 Put-in-Bay, Ohio ) was an American executive in Cleveland, Ohio's coal industry who also achieved prominence in Major League Baseball.