Andrew Graham McBurney (November 13, 1817 – April 23, 1894) was an American Republican politician who served as the eighth lieutenant governor of Ohio from 1866 to 1868.

Biography

McBurney was born in 1815 near Montgomery, Ohio, and was the eldest son of James and Magdalen Falen McBurney. The family soon moved to Lebanon, Ohio, where McBurney finished his apprenticeship as a cabinet-maker in 1836. Smith 1898 : 212 He

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in 1840, and was admitted to the bar 1843. He became a law partner to

Thomas Corwin Thomas Corwin (July 29, 1794 – December 18, 1865), also known as Tom Corwin, The Wagon Boy, and Black Tom was a politician from the state of Ohio. He represented Ohio in both houses of Congress and served as the 15th governor of Ohio and the ...

Career

McBurney was a

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until the start of the Civil War, when he became a Republican. In 1861 and 1863, he was elected to the

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, representing the Second District (

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and Warren counties) in the Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth General Assembly. In 1865, he was elected Lieutenant Governor, serving one term.1865 election McBurney 224,943 Democrat William Lang 193,510 from Smith 1898 : 209 He was an

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on the Grant/ Colfax ticket in 1868, but did not again participate in Politics. In 1871 he was co-counsel with

Clement Vallandigham Clement Laird Vallandigham ( ; July 29, 1820 – June 17, 1871) was an American politician and leader of the Copperhead faction of anti-war Democrats during the American Civil War. He served two terms for Ohio's 3rd congressional district in the ...

in a murder trial. He was the only witness to see Vallandigham accidentally shoot himself to death in the ''

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''. He died 1894 in Lebanon. McBurney is buried in Lebanon.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mcburney, Andrew G. Lieutenant Governors of Ohio 1815 births 1894 deaths People from Montgomery, Ohio Ohio lawyers Republican Party Ohio state senators 1868 United States presidential electors 19th-century American politicians American lawyers admitted to the practice of law by reading law People from Lebanon, Ohio 19th-century American lawyers