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Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr. (pronunciation: [mɛgz] – rhymes with "eggs") (
November 17,
1764 –
March 29,
1825) was a
Democratic-Republican politician from
Ohio. He served as the 4th
Governor of Ohio and 5th
United States Postmaster General.
Meigs was born in
Middletown, Connecticut, the son of
Return J. Meigs, Sr. and the descendant of early
Puritan settlers in
Massachusetts. He graduated from
Yale College in 1785. After passing the bar in
Connecticut, he moved to
Marietta, Ohio three years later. He was appointed the first Chief Justice of the Ohio State Supreme Court in 1803. He served in that position for a year before serving as a judge in the
Louisiana Territory and
Michigan Territory. He returned to Ohio in 1807 to run for governor. He won the election, but was declared ineligible for failing to meet the residency requirements. He then was appointed to the
U.S. Senate to finish the term of
John Smith and was re-elected to his own term a year later. He resigned in late 1810 after winning the governorship. He served two two-year terms, resigning in April 1814 when appointed Postmaster General by
President Madison. He served until resigning in 1823 due to ill health.
Return J. Meigs was disappointed not to have a male heir. However, two of his younger brothers, John and Timothy, each named a son Return Jonathan Meigs. The first of these passed the bar in
Frankfort, Kentucky, but commenced law practice in
Athens, Tennessee, and became prominent in
Tennessee state affairs before the
Civil War, but moved to New York at the time of Tennessee's secession from the
Union in 1861.
(External Link
) Among those men who read law under his tutelage in Tennessee was
William Parish Chilton.
Meigs County, Ohio is named in his honor. (
Meigs County, Tennessee is named for his father.)
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