John Brough
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| 26th Governor of Ohio | |
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In office January 11, 1864 – August 29, 1865 |
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| Lieutenant | Charles Anderson |
| Preceded by | David Tod |
| Succeeded by | Charles Anderson |
| 5th Ohio State Auditor | |
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In office March 15, 1839 – March 15, 1845 |
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| Preceded by | John A. Bryan |
| Succeeded by | John Woods |
| Member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the Fairfield & Hocking counties district |
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In office December 3, 1838 – March 14, 1839 |
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| Preceded by |
William Medill John Graybill |
| Succeeded by | James Spencer Lewis Hite |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 17, 1811 Marietta, Ohio |
| Died | August 29, 1865 (aged 53) Cleveland, Ohio |
| Resting place | Woodland Cemetery (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| Political party |
Union Democrat |
| Spouse(s) | Achsah P. Pruden Caroline A. Nelson |
| Children | seven |
| Alma mater | Ohio University |
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John Brough (rhymes with "huff") (September 17, 1811 – August 29, 1865) was a War Democrat politician from Ohio. He served as the 26th Governor of Ohio during the final years of the American Civil War, dying in office of gangrene shortly after the war concluded.
Born in Marietta, Ohio, to an English immigrant and a Pennsylvania-born mother, Brough was orphaned at the age of 11. To support himself, he became a printer's apprentice, and later received three years of part-time education at Ohio University, where he worked part-time as a reporter for the Athens Mirror. He rose to become a newspaper publisher in Marietta and then in Lancaster, where he and his brother Charles purchased the Ohio Eagle, a paper that espoused the views of the Democratic Party.
Brough served two years as Clerk of the Ohio Senate (where he also served as the capital correspondent for his newspaper, as well as the Ohio Statesman). He was elected as a Democrat to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1837, representing the Fairfield-Hocking district, and served from 1838–39, chairing the Committee on Banks and Currency. He then took office as State Auditor, serving until 1845, when the Whigs swept most of the state's Democrats out of office in the Election of 1844.
He was a trustee of Ohio University from 1840 to 1843.
In 1841, he and his brother bought the Cincinnati Advertiser and renamed it the Cincinnati Enquirer. Brough then moved to Indiana, where he entered the railroad business and became President of the Madison and Indianapolis Railway in 1848. He later presided over the Bellefontaine and Indiana Railway.
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