Allen Trimble (November 24, 1783 – February 3, 1870) was a

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and

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politician from

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. Son of James Trimble and Jane Allen. He served as the eighth and tenth

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, first concurrently as Senate Speaker, later elected twice in his own right.

Biography

Governor Trimble was born Hugh Allen Trimble in

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to James Trimble, Revolutionary War veteran, and Jane Allen Trimble. He was of Ulster Scots ancestry. In October 1784, his father moved his family to a veterans land grant in then

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. In October 1804, James Trimble died leaving Allen head of the family. Allen Trimble moved them to a homestead he and his father had established outside of

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Career

Trimble was a clerk of the Common Pleas Court in 1808. He also served as recorder of deeds in 1808. After briefly serving during the

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, Trimble served in the

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from 1816 to 1817 and then in the

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from 1818 to 1826. Trimble became Speaker of the Senate, and it was in this capacity that he became governor from January to December 1822 when Governor

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resigned to take a seat in the

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. Trimble ran an election for a full term in

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, but narrowly lost. He challenged

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again in 1824, narrowing the distance between the two, but still losing. He won a landslide election in 1826, however, as a

and then won a second full term in 1828. Trimble did not seek re-election in 1830. He then retired to farming, taking little part in politics for the next quarter-century, but did consent to accepting the nomination of the

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for governor in 1855. Trimble came in third, losing to

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and incumbent

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William Medill. In 1860 he was a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party convention in Baltimore.

Death

Trimble died at his family farm in Ohio, and was buried in Hillsboro Cemetery in Hillsboro, Ohio.

Legacy

Trimble,

, a village in

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, is named in Trimble's honor. Court Street, a street in

, on the north side of the Highland County Courthouse, was renamed "Governor Trimble Place" in 1974. Trimble's daughter,

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, helped to initiate the

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. Trimble is an ancestor of astronomer Virginia Louise Trimble

References

External links

National Governors AssociationOhio Memory
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