Hugh Llewellyn Nichols (March 25, 1865 – December 29, 1942) was an American politician who served as the 32nd

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from 1911 to 1913 and Chief Justice, Supreme Court of Ohio 1913 to 1920.

Biography

Hugh L. Nichols was born March 25, 1865, at New Richmond, Clermont County, Ohio to parents Perry Jackson and Jeannette Gilmore Nichols. He was educated in the public schools of Batavia, Ohio, and at the Ohio Wesleyan University in

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, where he was a member of the Chi Phi Fraternity and the

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. He was

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in 1886. In 1887 Nichols married to Louise Dean Stirling of Batavia, Ohio. In the Autumn of 1897, Nichols was elected to the Ohio State Senate to represent the 2nd and 4th Districts, ( Butler,

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, Clermont, and Brown County, Ohio), for the 73rd General Assembly, 1898–1899. In the 1898 election, he was nominated by the Democrats for a seat on the Ohio Supreme Court, but lost to

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William T. Spear. He was a delegate to the

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, and was Chairman of the Democratic State Executive Committee, where he managed the successful campaign of

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Harmon. In 1911, Lieutenant Governor

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was elected to the

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and resigned. Governor Harmon appointed Nichols to fill the vacancy, and he was re-elected in 1912. Nichols was appointed September 22, 1913 to the new position of

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James Cox, and elected to a full six-year term in 1914, serving until the end of 1920. He lost re-election in 1920. After defeat in 1920, Nichols founded the Cincinnati firm ''Nichols, Wood, Marx and Ginter'', where he was senior partner until his death. In 1922, Nichols was appointed chairman of the U. S. Grant Memorial Centenary Association, which directed the restoration of the

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in Point Pleasant, Ohio, and directed the state to acquire it. On October 19, 1942, Nichols was admitted to Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati with a fractured vertebra. He died there of a

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December 29, 1942, and was buried in Batavia Union Cemetery. He had an adopted daughter, Amy House Nichols, who preceded him in death. He also had Nichols was a

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nichols, Hugh L. Lieutenant Governors of Ohio Chief Justices of the Ohio Supreme Court 1865 births 1942 deaths Ohio Wesleyan University alumni University of Cincinnati College of Law alumni Ohio lawyers Democratic Party Ohio state senators Politicians from Cincinnati People from New Richmond, Ohio