McClellan then resisted the President's demand that he pursue Lee's retreating and exposed army, while his counterpart General Don Carlos Buell likewise refused orders to move the Army of the Ohio against rebel forces in eastern Tennessee.

He was distantly related to General Moses Cleaveland after whom the city of Cleveland, Ohio, was named.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Morgan's Raid – At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.

* Richard Butler ( general ) ( 1743 – 1791 ), American Revolutionary War General, later killed fighting Native Americans in Ohio

Former Ohio Governor and U. S. Surveyor General Edward Tiffin who commissioned the Harris Line survey.

U. S. Surveyor General Edward Tiffin, who was in charge of the survey, was a former Ohio governor.

Acting as commander-in-chief of Ohio's militia, Governor Lucas, along with General John Bell and about 600 other fully armed militiamen, arrived in Perrysburg, Ohio, ten miles ( 16 km ) southwest of Toledo, on March 31, 1835.

Shortly thereafter, Governor Mason and General Brown arrived to occupy the city of Toledo proper with around 1, 000 armed men, intending to prevent Ohio advances into the Toledo area as well as stopping further border marking from taking place.

Harding's appointment of Harry M. Daugherty as Attorney General received at the time more criticism than any other ; Harding's campaign manager's Ohio lobbying and back room maneuvers with politicians were not considered the best qualifications.

The most sensational allegations include one that President Harding and Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty participated in bacchanalian orgies at the Ohio Gang's Little Green House on K Street in Washington, D. C .; witnesses to this were considered unreliable and one was a convicted perjurer.

* February 18 – Ohio University is chartered by the Ohio General Assembly.

The Forbes Expedition was a British campaign in September – October 1758, with 6, 000 troops led by General John Forbes to drive the French out of the contested Ohio Country.

Garfield later commanded the 20th Brigade of Ohio under Buell at the Battle of Shiloh, where he led troops in an attempt, delayed by weather, to reinforce Maj Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, after a surprise attack by Confederate General Albert S. Johnston.

As 1944 began the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party's 1940 candidate, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's powerful, moderate eastern establishment, General Douglas MacArthur, then serving as an Allied commander in the Pacific theater of the war, and former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, then serving as a U. S. naval officer in the Pacific.

With Eisenhower refusing to run, the contest for the Republican nomination was between New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, Ohio Senator Robert Taft, California Governor Earl Warren, General Douglas MacArthur and Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, the senior Republican in the Senate.

His older brothers were Charles Taylor Sherman, a federal judge in Ohio, and General William Tecumseh Sherman of Civil War fame.

Named Me William Tecumseh ": Rebutting the Charge That General Sherman Lied About His Name », Ohio History ( 2008 ), vol.

The first known hospital-based ambulance service operated out of Commercial Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio ( now the Cincinnati General ) by 1865.

* James Murray ( Ohio politician ) ( c. 1830 – 1881 ), Attorney General of Ohio

In 1796, Washington appointed Benjamin Hawkins as General Superintendent of Indian Affairs dealing with all tribes south of the Ohio River.

In 1873, more than 80 years after Congress offered it to the nation's state lawmakers, the Ohio General Assembly ratified the compensation amendment as a means of protest against the " Salary Grab Act ".

Marshall County was formed in 1835 from Ohio County by act of the Virginia Assembly.

Wyandot County is represented in the Ohio General Assembly by state Representative Jeff McClain, formerly Wyandot County Auditor, and state Senator Dave Burke.

Warren County was created by the first Ohio General Assembly in the Act of March 24, 1803, which also created Butler and Montgomery Counties.

Hancock County was created on January 21, 1828, by the Ohio General Assembly from the southern portions of Wood County.

On January 18, 1810, the Kentucky General Assembly created Butler County from portions of Logan and Ohio counties.

It owes its name to the Ohio town, which was in the northwestern corner of the " College Township ", the survey township designated by the Ohio General Assembly as the site of the state college that became Miami University.

Hamilton was first incorporated by act of the Ohio General Assembly in 1810, but lost its status in 1815 for failure to hold elections.

At the Attorney General's urging, the Ohio General Assembly passed a law later that year primarily targeted at New Rome, that allowed for the dissolution of a village that had fewer than 150 people, provided little or no public services and had a pattern of wrongdoing or incompetence.

The first session of the Ohio General Assembly created Greene County from the Northwest Territory, embracing the homeland of the Shawnee Indians.

On March 2, 1850 the Ohio General Assembly rode from Columbus, Ohio to Xenia and back on the newly completed Columbus and Xenia Railroad.

Dissatisfaction rose with Circleville's layout, however, and in 1837, the Ohio General Assembly authorized the " Circleville Squaring Company " to convert it into a square.

March 1, The Findlay, Gilboa, and Defiance Plank Road Company is incorporated by the Ohio General Assembly to create a road from Findlay in Hancock County to Gilboa.

March 3, The Gilead And Gilboa Plank Road Company is incorporated by the Ohio General Assembly to create a road from the bank of the Maumee River near Gilead in Wood County to Gilboa.

By an act of the Virginia General Assembly on December 27, 1797, Wheeling was named the county seat of Ohio County.

Declining a Cabinet position, Hanna secured appointment as senator from Ohio after Sherman was made Secretary of State ; he was re-elected by the Ohio General Assembly in 1898 and 1904.

Eleutheros Cooke was a pioneer Ohio lawyer and Whig, a member of the Ohio General Assembly and member of Congress from Ohio in 1831-1833.

The U. S. Supreme Court, in Grove Press, Inc., v. Gerstein, citing Jacobellis v. Ohio ( which was decided the same day in 1964 ), overruled the state court findings of obscenity and declared the book a work of literature ; it was one of the notable events in what has come to be known as the sexual revolution.

After Betty leaves the mansion in tears, Joe begins packing, having decided to return to Ohio.

By 1774, the Earl of Dunmore, then governor of the colonies of New York and Virginia, decided to raise an army of three thousand to go against the Shawnees in their homeland in present-day Ohio.

Ostracised by their families for this step, the couple decided to settle in America, where Blennerhassett in 1798 bought a ( now-eponymous ) island in the Ohio River about two miles below what is now Parkersburg, West Virginia.

When the news broke that northwest Ohio had oil, Standard Oil of Cleveland decided to build a refinery in Lima.

Located in northern Bexley, the Governor ’ s Mansion — originally built as a private residence in 1925 and given to the state in 1955 — has been home to Ohio governors from 1957 – 2010, when Governor John Kasich controversially decided to reside at his home in Westerville.

The Ohio Department of Transportation eventually decided that New Rome's lower speed limit was inconsistent with state law guidelines.

Originally called Jefferson, it was the county seat of Pike County from 1815 – 1845, when it was decided by James Emmitt, a wealthy local entrepreneur, to move the county seat to Waverly due to its closer proximity to the then new Ohio & Erie Canal.

After his Ohio and Minnesota tours in the summer of 1957, he decided to form his own band with members closer to his age.

The Supreme Court had already decided unanimously in 1915 in Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio that free speech did not extend to motion pictures, and while there had been token attempts to clean up the movies before, such as when the studios formed the National Association of the Motion Picture Industry ( NAMPI ) in 1916, little had come of the efforts.

In 1886, its partners – Joseph Newton Pew, Philip Pisano and Edward O. Emerson – decided to expand their gas business with a stake in the new oil discoveries in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Although the British had successfully pacified the uprising in the Ohio Country, British military dominance was tenuous, and they decided to negotiate with the Ottawa leader.

Kansas, Ohio, and Maryland banned the film, and Preminger and United Artists decided to bring suit in a Maryland court.

About 1759, the Pekowi band decided to move west into the Ohio Country.

Stringer decided to attend Ohio State University, where he played for the Ohio State Buckeyes football team from 1992 to 1994.

Moses Cleaveland, a surveyor charged with exploring the Connecticut Western Reserve, first arrived at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River in 1796, and subsequently decided to locate a settlement there, which became Cleveland, Ohio.

The founding members of 98 Degrees met after Canton, Ohio native Jeff Timmons decided to quit university and pursue a music career.

* On July 24, 2012, after receiving a letter from FFRF, the Steubenville, Ohio city council decided to remove the image of the Christ the King Chapel at the Franciscan University of Steubenville from its town logo.

It was decided to despatch a large British force under the command of Edward Braddock to America to drive the French out of Ohio and occupy the lands for Britain.

Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U. S. 643 ( 1961 ), was a landmark case in criminal procedure, in which the United States Supreme Court decided that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, which protects against " unreasonable searches and seizures ," may not be used in state law criminal prosecutions in state courts, as well, as had previously been the law, as in federal criminal law prosecutions in federal courts.

When the Ohio legislature decided to choose their own location for the bridge, they failed to pick such an obvious spot, hoping to defend Cincinnati's preeminence over Newport and Covington, the rival Kentucky cities.

When the crews reached the compacted gravel bed of the Ohio River, Roebling decided this would be sufficient for the foundation of the Cincinnati tower.