The campaign was sure to be a struggle ; the Whigs nominated their " Eagle Orator " Gustavus Henry, and Johnson wasted no time in calling him to task for his " Henry-mandering " of the First District, as their debates made their way across the state from one county seat to the next.

Ann Arbor is a city in the US state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County.

In the late 6th century, the city re-emerged as the seat of a county and an archdiocese within the Merovingian kingdom of the Franks, but royal Frankish power was never strong.

Boone is the county seat of Watauga County and the home of Appalachian State University.

This quake destroyed the county seat of Alameda County then located in San Leandro and it subsequently moved to Oakland.

John C. Hammond and Henry P. Field, both Amherst graduates, introduced Coolidge to the law practice in the county seat of Hampshire County.

It is also the county seat of Merrimack County.

In 1994, the administrative county ( which did not include the county borough of Dublin ) was dissolved and the area divided among the administrative counties of Dún Laoghaire – Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin each with its county seat.

Cadillac () is a city in the U. S. state of Michigan and is the county seat of Wexford County.

Cadillac became the county seat after the so-called " Battle of Manton ," in which a show of force was involved in enforcing a controversial decision to move the county seat from Manton, Michigan.

Cadillac partisans, however, won the county seat by county-wide vote in April 1882.

The city serves as the county seat of Boone County and as the location of the University of Missouri.

Columbus () is a city in and the county seat of Bartholomew County, Indiana, United States.

Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, though a small portion of the city limits also extend into DuPage County.

** Cortez, Colorado, a city and county seat of Montezuma County

Prior to 1969, Carson City was also the county seat of Ormsby County.

Dayton () is the 6th largest city in the U. S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Montgomery County.

Dedham () is a town in and the county seat of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.

It became the county seat of Norfolk County.

Above the tree are the scales of justice, representing Dedham as the county seat and home to Norfolk County's courts.

Fermanagh District Council is the only one of the 26 district councils in Northern Ireland that contains all of the county it is named after.

A county park in East Meadow, New York ( Long Island ) is named in his honor.

In 1843 he was named a county commissioner in Platte County, where he then lived.

The town ( and county ) were named for him.

* the geographical area comprising the two westernmost provinces of the Flemish Region, West Flanders and East Flanders, parts of a former county named Flanders.

Kernite was discovered in 1926 in western Kern County, in Southern California, and later named for the county.

The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire.

These counties are typically ( though not always ) named after their county town.

The county in which Toledo sat would, later in 1835, be named after incumbent Governor Robert Lucas, a move that further exacerbated the growing tensions with Michigan.

* The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates Kingston, named for King George III of the United Kingdom, as the county seat of Dobbs County, North Carolina.

* The North Carolina General Assembly passes an act establishing the town of Martinsborough, named for Royal Governor Josiah Martin, on the land of Richard Evans, which will serve as the county seat of Pitt County.

The General Assembly also establishes Warrenton ( also named for Joseph Warren ) to be the county seat of Warren County and Louisburg ( named for Louis XVI of France ) to be the county seat of Franklin County.

* The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates Lincolnton, North Carolina ( named for American General Benjamin Lincoln ) as the new county seat for Lincoln County.

The county is named for Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, who married George III of the United Kingdom in 1761.

In several other cases, such as Buckinghamshire, the town which came to be accepted as the county town is different from that after which the shire is named.

Some of the Obotrites also migrated to the south and settled in the Pannonian Plain, where the Bodrogiensis county of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary was named after them.

The southern portion of the county, of which Rockville was a part, was named Montgomery County.

Across the county line in Bourbon County, an early distiller named Jacob Spears is credited with being the first to label his product " Bourbon whiskey ".

The county ( and the county seat ) may have been named for Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore.

Anglo-American settlers named the county for Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales ( 1707 – 1751 ), the eldest son of King George II of Great Britain.

named after its former county town, Antrim ) is one of six counties that form Northern Ireland, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland.