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Thomas L. Young


33rd Governor of Ohio
In office March 2, 1877 – January 14, 1878
Lieutenant	H. W. Curtiss
Preceded by	Rutherford B. Hayes
Succeeded by	Richard M. Bishop
12th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio
In office January 10, 1876 – March 2, 1877
Governor	Rutherford B. Hayes
Preceded by	Alphonso Hart
Succeeded by	H. W. Curtiss
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 2nd district
In office March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1883
Preceded by	Henry B. Banning
Succeeded by	Isaac M. Jordan
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the Hamilton County district
In office January 1, 1866 – January 5, 1868Serving with ten others
Preceded by	ten others
Succeeded by	nine others
Member of the Ohio Senate from the first district
In office January 1, 1872 – January 4, 1874Serving with John Schiff Joseph F. Wright
Preceded by	Thomas H. Yeatman Michael Goepper Samuel Furman Hunt Nathan Lord, Jr.
Succeeded by	William R. Wallace Vachel Worthington Stephen H. Burton

Personal details
Born	(1832-12-14)December 14, 1832 Killyleagh, County Down, Ireland, U.K.
Died	July 20, 1888(1888-07-20) (aged 55) Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Resting place	Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Political party	Republican
Alma mater	Cincinnati Law School
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch/service	United States Army Union Army
Years of service	1848 – 1858, 1861 – 1864
Rank	Colonel Brevet Brigadier General
Commands	118th Ohio Infantry

Thomas Lowry Young (December 14, 1832 – July 20, 1888) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Ohio. Young, a Republican, served as the 33rd governor of Ohio from March 2, 1877, to January 14, 1878.

Early life

Young was born in Killyleagh, County Down, in Ulster, a northern province of Ireland. At that time, all of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. While living in Ireland, his father was a gardener for The 2nd Baron Dufferin and Claneboye. He immigrated with his parents to the United States as a child and spent his childhood in New York.

He worked for a Democratic Party newspaper in Sidney, Ohio in 1862 between military service, and afterward, and spoke out against the Lincoln Administration, believing them to be too soft in the war effort thus far. After military service, he returned to Cincinnati and graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1865.

Military service

Young enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1848, originally joining as a musician. He advanced through the ranks of the artillery to become a First Sergeant in the 3rd U.S. Artillery, serving under Brevet Major John F. Reynolds. After his service ended in January 1858, Young moved to Pennsylvania, then to Cincinnati a year later, where he served as the Assistant Superintendent for the House of Refuge Reform School for Youth.

In March 1861 Young, believing a civil war to be imminent, wrote to General Winfield Scott volunteering his services. He officially joined the American Civil War effort a month later. Between August and December, he served under John C. Frémont as a captain while stationed in Missouri. The unit disbanded at the beginning of 1862, and Young left the service.

Young re-enlisted and received a commission as major in the 118th Ohio Infantry in September 1862, where he remained for the duration of his service. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in February 1863 and the rank of colonel in April 1864. At the Battle of Resaca in May, Young led a charge against the enemy that was quickly defeated; the charge caused him to lose 116 of his 270 men in the span of a few minutes. He contracted an illness during the Atlanta Campaign and resigned from the Army in September. President Abraham Lincoln brevetted him Brigadier-General of volunteers for his service on March 13, 1865.

Career

Shortly afterward, he began his political career with an appointment as Assistant City Auditor, a position he held for the rest of the year. He was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives afterward and served a single two-year term from 1866 to 1868. Young became Hamilton County Recorder in October 1867, and held the position until President Andrew Johnson named him Internal Revenue Supervisor of Southern Ohio in late 1868, a position he held through 1869.

After resigning from that position, Young worked in real estate until 1871 when he was elected to the Ohio State Senate. At that point he was considered highly regarded in the Republican Party, and when elected to the State Senate, he had more votes than most other Republicans on the statewide ballot.

Young was elected the 12th lieutenant governor of Ohio in 1875, defeating Samuel Cary, taking office in 1876. He then filled out the term of Rutherford B. Hayes when the latter was elected to the presidency, serving from 1877 to 1878.

Young was then elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1878 and served two terms before losing a battle for renomination in 1882.

Personal life

He died in 1888 while holding a position on the Cincinnati Board of Public Affairs. Young was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati.

Notes

Clarke 1889, p. 198
^ "Thomas L. Young". Ohio History Central. Retrieved August 28, 2012.
"Thomas L. Young". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved October 19, 2008.
^ Reid 1895, p. 988
Reid 1895, p. 989
Clarke 1889, p. 200

References

Clarke, Robert (1889). Reunion of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland. Princeton University. pp. 198–202.
Reid, Whitelaw (1895). "Thomas L. Young". Ohio in the War Her Statesmen Generals and Soldiers. Vol. 1. Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company. pp. 988–989.

External links

Thomas L. Young at Find a Grave

"Young, Thomas Lowry" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900.

Political offices
Preceded byAlphonso Hart	Lieutenant Governor of Ohio 1876–1877	Succeeded byH. W. Curtiss
Preceded byRutherford B. Hayes	Governor of Ohio 1877–1878	Succeeded byRichard M. Bishop
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded byHenry B. Banning	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 2nd congressional district March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1883	Succeeded byIsaac M. Jordan

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Lieutenant governors	Medill Myers Ford Welker Kirk Stanton Anderson McBurney Lee Mueller Hart Young Curtiss Fitch Hickenlooper Richards Warwick Kennedy Conrad Lyon Lampson Marquis Harris Jones Caldwell Nippert Gordon Harding Harris Treadway Pomerene Nichols Greenlund Arnold Bloom C. Brown Bloom Lewis Bloom Pickrel Braden J. T. Brown Pickrel Sawyer Mosier Yoder Herbert Nye Herbert Nye J. W. Brown Herbert Donahey J. W. Brown Celeste Voinovich Shoemaker Leonard DeWine Hollister O'Connor Bradley Johnson Fisher Taylor Husted

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Alexander Campbell Ross Woods Shields Corwin Webster Weller Cunningham Fisher Campbell Harrison Groesbeck Gurley Long Hayes Cary Stevenson Banning Young Jordan Brown Caldwell Bromwell Goebel Allen Heintz Stephens Tatgenhorst Hess Bigelow Hess Wagner Hess Clancy Luken Gradison Portman Schmidt Wenstrup Taylor (elect)

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