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politicians who brought about the admission of

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as a state (1803) and largely controlled its politics for some years thereafter. The best known were

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and

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References

*''Dictionary of American History'' by

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, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940 History of Ohio Politicians from Chillicothe, Ohio