William Creighton, Jr.
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 3rd district |
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In office March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1817 |
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| Preceded by | new seat |
| Succeeded by | Levi Barber |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 6th district |
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In office March 4, 1827 – before November 1, 1828 |
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| Preceded by | John Thomson |
| Succeeded by | Francis Swaine Muhlenberg |
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In office March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1833 |
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| Preceded by | Francis Swaine Muhlenberg |
| Succeeded by | Samuel Finley Vinton |
| first Ohio Secretary of State | |
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In office March 1803 – December 1808 |
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| Preceded by | new office |
| Succeeded by | Jeremiah McLene |
| United States District Court for the District of Ohio | |
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In office November 1, 1828 – February 16, 1829 |
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| Appointed by | John Quincy Adams |
| Preceded by | Charles Willing Byrd |
| Succeeded by | John Wilson Campbell |
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October 29, 1778 Berkeley County, Virginia |
| Died | October 8, 1851 (aged 72) Chillicothe, Ohio |
| Resting place | Grandview Cemetery |
| Political party | Democratic-Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Eliza Meade |
| Children | two |
| Alma mater | Dickinson College |
William Creighton (October 29, 1778 – October 8, 1851) was an attorney, banker and legislator. Creighton was Ohio’s first Secretary of State and designer of the Great Seal of Ohio.
Creighton was born in Berkeley County, Virginia, the son of Robert and Margaret Creighton. William graduated in 1795 from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He read law in 1798 and was admitted to the bar in Ross County, Ohio, in June 1799. He began his practice in Chillicothe.
Creighton always signed his name "William Creighton, Jr." because he had an elder cousin of the same name who also lived in Ross County, Ohio. His elder cousin, who styled himself William Creighton, Sr., was also politically active, holding seats in the Ohio House (1803 and 1831) and Ohio Senate (1813–14), and appointed United States postmaster in Ross County from 1815 to 1831.
Arthur St. Clair, governor of the Northwest Territory opposed the admission of Ohio as a state and proposed to divide the territory up in such a way as to preclude Ohio’s eligibility for admission. Suspecting that St. Clair might attempt some sort of coup by means of the legislature, the members rushed through the organization and Constitution in order to forestall his opposition. Although the 1802 Constitution was not presented to the voters for approval, Creighton wrote to his friend Thomas Worthington a few days after the territorial legislature’s adjournment, "The Sovereign people continue remarkably quiet. I must relate to you an anecdote of Daniel Hamilton. In this place the other day he was asked how the people of his neighborhood like the Constitution? He said they did not like it at all because it had no pictures in it."
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