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Ohio
Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the west, and Michigan to the northwest. Of the 50 List of states and territories of the United States, U.S. states, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 34th-largest by area. With a population of nearly 11.9 million, Ohio is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, seventh-most populous and List of U.S. states and territories by population density, tenth-most densely populated state. Its List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities in Ohio, most populous city is Columbus, Ohio, Columbus, with the two other major Metropolitan statistical area, metropolitan centers being Cleveland and Cincinnati, alongside Dayton, Ohio, Dayton, Akron, Ohio, Akron, and Toledo, Ohio, Toledo. Ohio is nicknamed th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Cleveland
The Cleveland metropolitan area, or Greater Cleveland as it is more commonly known, is the metropolitan area surrounding the city of Cleveland in Northeast Ohio, United States. According to the 2020 census results, the six-county Cleveland, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) consists of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Cuyahoga County, Ashtabula County, Ohio, Ashtabula County, Geauga County, Ohio, Geauga County, Lake County, Ohio, Lake County, Lorain County, Ohio, Lorain County, and Medina County, Ohio, Medina County, and has a population of 2,185,825, making it the List of Metropolitan Statistical Areas, 33rd-most populous metropolitan area in the United States and the third largest metropolitan area in Ohio. The metro area is also part of the larger Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH Combined Statistical Area, Cleveland–Akron–Canton Combined Statistical Area with a population of over 3.7 million people, the most populous statistical area in Ohio and the 17th most populous in the United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohio House Of Representatives
The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio; the other house of the bicameral legislature being the Ohio Senate. The House of Representatives first met in Chillicothe on March 3, 1803, under the later superseded state constitution of that year. In 1816, the capital was moved to Columbus, where it is located today. Members are limited to four successive two-year elected terms (terms are considered successive if they are separated by less than four years). Time served by appointment to fill out another representative's uncompleted term does not count against the term limit. There are 99 members in the house, elected from single-member districts. Every even-numbered year, all the seats are up for re-election. Composition Leadership Members of the 136th House of Representatives ↑: Member was originally appointed to the seat. Officials Speaker of the House The Speaker of the Hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus (, ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities in Ohio, most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 United States census, 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the List of United States cities by population, 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwestern United States, Midwest (after Chicago), and the third-most populous U.S. state capital (after Phoenix, Arizona, and Austin, Texas). Columbus is the county seat of Franklin County, Ohio, Franklin County; it also extends into Delaware County, Ohio, Delaware and Fairfield County, Ohio, Fairfield counties. The Columbus metropolitan area, Ohio, Columbus metropolitan area encompasses ten counties in central Ohio and had a population of 2.14 million in 2020, making it the Ohio statistical areas, largest metropolitan area entirely in Ohio and Metropolitan statistical area, 32nd-largest metro area in the U.S. Columbus originated as several Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike DeWine
Richard Michael DeWine ( ; born January 5, 1947) is an American politician and attorney serving as the 70th List of governors of Ohio, governor of Ohio since 2019. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, he served as the 50th Attorney General of Ohio, attorney general of Ohio from 2011 to 2019, in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983 to 1991, and in the U.S. Senate from 1995 to 2007. DeWine is a native of Yellow Springs, Ohio. He graduated from Miami University with a bachelor's degree in 1969 and earned a Juris Doctor from Claude W. Pettit College of Law, Ohio Northern University College of Law in 1972. After graduation, DeWine worked as an assistant prosecutor for Greene County, Ohio, Greene County and was elected county prosecutor, serving one term. He continued his political career in the Ohio Senate in 1980. He served as a United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative from 1983 until 1991. In 1991, he was sworn in as the 59t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohio River
The Ohio River () is a river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing in a southwesterly direction from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to its river mouth, mouth on the Mississippi River in Cairo, Illinois, Cairo, Illinois. It is the third largest river by discharge volume in the United States and the largest tributary by volume of the Mississippi River. It is also the sixth oldest river on the North American continent. The river flows through or along the border of six U.S. state, states, and its drainage basin includes parts of 14 states. Through its largest tributary, the Tennessee River, the basin includes several states of the southeastern United States. It is the source of drinking water for five million people. The river became a primary transportation route for pioneers during the westward expansion of the early U.S. The lower Ohio River just below Louisville was obstructed by rapids known as the Falls of the Oh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohio Senate
The Ohio Senate is the upper house of the Ohio General Assembly. The State Senate, which meets in the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, first convened in 1803. Senators are elected for four year terms, staggered every two years such that half of the seats are contested at each election. Even numbered seats and odd numbered seats are contested in separate election years. The president of the Ohio Senate presides over the body when in session, and is currently Rob McColley. Currently, the Senate consists of 24 Republicans and 9 Democrats, with the Republicans controlling two more seats than the 22 required for a supermajority vote. Senators are limited to two consecutive terms. Each senator represents approximately 349,000 Ohioans, and each Senate district encompasses three corresponding Ohio House of Representatives The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio; the other house of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbus Metropolitan Area, Ohio
The Columbus, Ohio metropolitan area is a metropolitan area in Central Ohio surrounding the state capital of Columbus, Ohio, Columbus. As defined by the U.S. Census Bureau, it includes the counties of Delaware County, Ohio, Delaware, Fairfield County, Ohio, Fairfield, Franklin County, Ohio, Franklin, Hocking County, Ohio, Hocking, Licking County, Ohio, Licking, Madison County, Ohio, Madison, Morrow County, Ohio, Morrow, Perry County, Ohio, Perry, Pickaway County, Ohio, Pickaway, and Union County, Ohio, Union. At the 2020 census, the MSA had a population of 2,138,926, making it Metropolitan statistical area, 32nd-most populous in the United States and the second largest in Ohio, behind the Cincinnati metropolitan area. The metro area, also known as Central Ohio or Greater Columbus, is one of the largest and fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the Midwestern United States. The larger combined statistical area (the Columbus–Marion–Zanesville combined statistical area) adds the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Tressel
James Patrick Tressel (born December 5, 1952) is an American politician and retired college football coach who has served as the 67th lieutenant governor of Ohio since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, Tressel previously was the president of Youngstown State University from 2014 to 2023. Before becoming an administrator, Tressel was the head football coach of the Youngstown State Penguins and later the Ohio State Buckeyes in a career that spanned from 1986 until 2010. Tressel's teams won five national championships (four with YSU during the 1990s, and one with OSU in 2002) during the course of his career, earning him numerous Coach of the Year accolades, and an induction into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2015. Tressel was born in Painesville, Ohio, and attended Baldwin–Wallace College, where he played football as quarterback under his father, Lee Tressel. Tressel succeeded Bill Narduzzi as Youngstown State's fourth head football coach in 1986 and remained ther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Husted
Jon Allen Husted ( ; born August 25, 1967) is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Ohio since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, Husted served as the 66th lieutenant governor of Ohio from 2019 to 2025 and as the 50th secretary of state of Ohio from 2011 to 2019. Husted represented the 6th District of the Ohio Senate (a portion of Montgomery County) from 2009 to 2011 and was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 2001 to 2009. From 2005 to 2009, he served as Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives. He was elected Ohio Secretary of State in 2010 and reelected in 2014. Husted was a candidate in the Republican primary for governor of Ohio in the 2018 election, but later announced that he would instead run for lieutenant governor of Ohio as Attorney General Mike DeWine's running mate. On January 17, 2025, Governor DeWine appointed Husted to fill the vacant U.S. Senate seat created by the resignation of JD Vance, who be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
With God, All Things Are Possible
With God, all things are possible is the motto of the U.S. state of Ohio. Quoted from the Gospel of Matthew, verse , it is the only List of U.S. state and territory mottos, state motto taken directly from the Bible (, ''para de Theō panta dynata''). It is defined in section 5.06 of the Ohio Revised Code and sometimes appears beneath the Seal of Ohio. The motto was adopted in 1959 and survived a federal constitutional challenge in 2001. The state maintains that it is a generic expression of optimism rather than an endorsement of a particular religion. Usage The motto appears beneath the Seal of Ohio on the official letterhead of some state and county agencies. A large-scale version is displayed in a plaza near the Ohio Statehouse. The state motto appears on the flag of Franklin County, Ohio, Franklin County, beneath the county seal, which is based on the state seal. List of school districts in Ohio, School districts in Ohio are required to accept and display any donated copy of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cincinnati Metropolitan Area
The Cincinnati metropolitan area (also known as the Cincinnati Tri-State area or Greater Cincinnati) is a metropolitan area with its Urban area, core in Ohio and Kentucky. Its largest city is Cincinnati and includes surrounding counties in the U.S. states of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. The United States Census Bureau's formal name for the area is the Cincinnati, OH–KY–IN Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the metro area had a population of 2,256,884, making Greater Cincinnati the Metropolitan statistical area, 28th-most populous metropolitan area in the United States, and the largest metro area in Ohio, followed by Columbus metropolitan area, Ohio, Columbus and Greater Cleveland, Cleveland. The Cincinnati–Wilmington, OH–KY–IN Combined Statistical Area, adds Clinton County, Ohio (defined as the Wilmington, OH Micropolitan statistical area, micropolitan area) and, until 2023, Mason County, Kentucky (defined as the Maysville, KY micropolitan area), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Supreme Court Of Ohio
The Supreme Court of the State of Ohio is the highest court in the U.S. state of Ohio, with final authority over interpretations of Ohio law and the Ohio Constitution. The court has seven members, a chief justice and six associate justices, who are elected at large by the voters of Ohio for six-year terms. The court has a total of 1,550 other employees. Since 2004, the court has met in the Thomas J. Moyer Ohio Judicial Center (formerly known as the Ohio Departments Building) on the east bank of the Scioto River in Downtown Columbus. Prior to 2004, the court met in the James A. Rhodes State Office Tower and earlier in the Judiciary Annex (now the Senate Building) of the Ohio Statehouse. The Ohio Supreme Court and the rest of the judiciary is established and authorized within Article IV of the Ohio Constitution. History The Supreme Court of Ohio was founded in 1802, established in the state constitution as a three-member court, holding courts in each county every year. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
