David Tod
| David Tod | |
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| 25th Governor of Ohio | |
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In office January 4, 1862 – January 11, 1864 |
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| Lieutenant | Benjamin Stanton |
| Preceded by | William Dennison |
| Succeeded by | John Brough |
| United States Minister to Brazil | |
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In office August 28, 1847 – August 9, 1851 |
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| President |
James K. Polk Zachary Taylor Millard Fillmore |
| Preceded by | Henry A. Wise |
| Succeeded by | Robert C. Schenck |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
February 21, 1805 Youngstown, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | November 13, 1868 (aged 63) Youngstown, Ohio, U.S. |
| Political party |
Democratic (Before 1861) Republican (1861–1864) National Union (1864–1868) |
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David Tod (February 21, 1805 – November 13, 1868) was a politician and industrialist from the U.S. state of Ohio. As the 25th Governor of Ohio, Tod gained recognition for his forceful and energetic leadership during the American Civil War.
A Democrat who supported the war effort, Tod helped to maintain a fragile alliance between the state's Republicans and War Democrats and took steps to secure Ohio's borders. In 1863, the state's pro-Union party failed to nominate Tod for a second term because of his tepid support for the abolition of slavery and his unpopularity among the state's myriad political factions.
After completing his two-year term as Ohio governor, Tod turned down an invitation to serve in the government of President Abraham Lincoln as Secretary of the Treasury, citing poor health. Tod died of a stroke in 1868, three years after the end of the war.
Tod was born in Youngstown, Ohio, to a family actively involved in local and state politics. His father, George Tod, born to a Scottish immigrant in Suffield, Connecticut, had relocated to the Connecticut Western Reserve in 1800. There, George Tod pursued a career in public life, serving as an Ohio lawmaker between 1804 and 1806, and winning a seat as a justice on the Ohio Supreme Court in 1807.
David Tod attended Burton Academy in Geauga County and studied law in Warren, where he was appointed postmaster. Admitted to the Ohio bar in 1827, he accumulated considerable wealth as a lawyer actively involved in the coal and iron industries of the Mahoning Valley, and he went on to become president of the Cleveland and Mahoning Railroad.
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