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James A. Rhodes

Jim Rhodes
Jim Rhodes in Bettsville, Ohio October 15, 1981.jpg
Governor James A. Rhodes in 1981
61st and 63rd Governor of Ohio
In office
January 13, 1975 – January 10, 1983
Lieutenant Richard F. Celeste (1975–1979)
George Voinovich (1979)
Preceded by John J. Gilligan
Succeeded by Richard F. Celeste
In office
January 14, 1963 – January 11, 1971
Lieutenant John W. Brown
Preceded by Michael DiSalle
Succeeded by John J. Gilligan
21st Ohio State Auditor
In office
1953–1963
Preceded by Joseph T. Ferguson
Succeeded by Roger W. Tracy, Jr.
44th Mayor of Columbus, Ohio
In office
1944–1952
Preceded by Floyd F. Green
Succeeded by Robert T. Oestreicher
Personal details
Born James Allen Rhodes
(1909-09-13)September 13, 1909
Coalton, Ohio
Died March 4, 2001(2001-03-04) (aged 91)
Columbus, Ohio
Resting place Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Helen Rawlins
Education Springfield High School
Alma mater Ohio State University

James Allen "Jim" Rhodes (September 13, 1909 – March 4, 2001) was an American Republican politician from Ohio, and as of 2006 one of only six US state governors to serve 4 four-year terms in office. (The other five were Edwin Edwards, George Wallace, Jim Hunt, Bill Janklow, and Terry Branstad.) Rhodes is tied for the fourth longest gubernatorial tenure in post-Constitutional U.S. history at 5,840 days.

As governor in 1970, Rhodes sent National Guard troops onto the Kent State University campus at the request of Kent, Ohio's mayor, after Kent State students burned the ROTC building down on May 2. On May 4, four students were killed and nine others were wounded by the Guard. One victim, Dean Kahler, suffered permanent paralysis.

Rhodes was born in Coalton, Jackson County, Ohio, to James and Susan Howe Rhodes, who were of Welsh descent. Rhodes has commented that the reason he and his family were Republicans was because of the respect his father, a mine superintendent, had for John L. Lewis, a prominent Republican union activist. When Rhodes was nine his father died and the family moved to north Springfield where Rhodes graduated from Springfield High School where he played on the football team. Subsequently, the family moved again, this time to Columbus, because Rhodes earned a modest basketball scholarship to The Ohio State University. Although Rhodes dropped out after his first quarter he is often described as a "student" or "alumnus" of Ohio State. After dropping out of college, Rhodes opened a business called Jim's Place across from the university on North High Street. Jim's Place has been described as a place where one could buy anything, from doughnuts and hamburgers, to stag films, or place bets on numbers games.


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