Ohio Secretary of State

The Secretary of State of Ohio is an elected statewide official in the State of Ohio. The Secretary of state is responsible for overseeing elections in the state; registering business entities (corporations, etc.) and granting them the authority to do business within the state; registering secured transactions; and granting access to public documents.

Secretary of State of Ohio
Seal of the Secretary of State
Incumbent Frank LaRose since January 14, 2019
Style	The Honorable
Term length	Four years, two term limit
Inaugural holder	William Creighton, Jr. 1803
Formation	Ohio Constitution
Salary	$109,554
Website	Office of the Ohio Secretary of State

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From 1803 to 1851, the Ohio Secretary of State was elected by the Ohio General Assembly to a three-year term. The 1851 Ohio Constitution made the office elective, with a two-year term. In 1954, the office's term was extended to four years. The Secretary of State is elected in even-numbered, off cycle years, (no Presidential elections), after partisan primary elections.

List of Ohio Secretaries of State

#	Secretary of State	Term of Office	Party
1	William Creighton, Jr.	1803–1808	Democratic Republican
2	Jeremiah McLene	1808–1831	Democratic
3	Moses H. Kirby	1831–1835	Whig
4	Benjamin B. Hinkson [lower-alpha 1]	1835–1836	Democratic
5	Carter B. Harlan [lower-alpha 2]	1836–1840	Democratic
6	William Trevitt	1840–1841	Democratic
7	John Sloane	1841–1844	Whig
8	Samuel Galloway	1844–1850	Whig
9	Henry W. King	1850–1852	Free Soil
10	William Trevitt	1852–1856	Democratic
11	James H. Baker	1856–1858	Republican
12	Addison P. Russell	1858–1862	Republican
13	Benjamin R. Cowen [lower-alpha 3]	1862	Republican
14	Wilson S. Kennon	1862–1863	Republican
15	William W. Armstrong	1863–1865	Democratic
16	William Henry Smith[lower-alpha 3]	1865–1868	Republican
17	John Russell	1868–1869	Republican
18	Isaac R. Sherwood	1869–1873	Republican
19	Allen T. Wikoff	1873–1875	Republican
20	William Bell, Jr.	1875–1877	Democratic
21	Milton Barnes	1877–1881	Republican
22	Charles Townsend	1881–1883	Republican
23	James W. Newman	1883-1885	Democratic
24	James Sidney Robinson	1885–1889	Republican
25	Daniel J. Ryan [lower-alpha 4]	1889–1891	Republican
26	Christian L. Poorman	1891–1893	Republican
27	Samuel M. Taylor	1893–1897	Republican
28	Charles Kinney	1897–1901	Republican
29	Lewis C. Laylin	1901–1907	Republican
30	Carmi Thompson	1907–1911	Republican
31	Charles H. Graves	1911–1915	Democratic
32	Charles Quinn Hildebrant	1915–1917	Republican
33	William D. Fulton	1917–1919	Democratic
34	Harvey C. Smith	1919–1923	Republican
35	Thad H. Brown	1923–1927	Republican
36	Clarence J. Brown Sr.	1927–1933	Republican
37	George S. Myers [lower-alpha 5]	1933–1936	Democratic
38	William J. Kennedy	1936–1939	Democratic
39	Earl Griffith [lower-alpha 2]	1939–1940	Republican
40	George M. Neffiner	1940–1941	Republican
41	John E. Sweeney	1941–1943	Democratic
42	Edward J. Hummel	1943–1949	Republican
43	Donald K. Zoller	1949–1951	Republican
44	Ted W. Brown	1951–1979	Republican
45	Anthony J. Celebrezze Jr.	1979–1983	Democratic
46	Sherrod Brown	1983–1991	Democratic
47	Bob Taft	1991–1999	Republican
48	Ken Blackwell	1999–2007	Republican
49	Jennifer L. Brunner	2007–2011	Democratic
50	Jon A. Husted	2011–2019	Republican
51	Frank LaRose	2019-	Republican

1. Resigned February 12, 1836.-[1]
2. Died in office.
3. Resigned.
4. Resigned April 1891.[2]
5. Resigned December 31, 1936.

See also

• Election Results, Ohio Secretary of State
• List of company registers

References

1. Taylor, William Alexander; Taylor, Aubrey Clarence (1899). Ohio statesmen and annals of progress: from the year 1788 to the year 1900 ... State of Ohio. p. 170.
2. Gilkey, Elliott Howard, ed. (1901). The Ohio Hundred Year Book: a Handbook of the Public Men and Public Institutions of Ohio ... State of Ohio. p. 425.

External links

• Ohio Secretary of State
• "Secretaries of State of the State of Ohio: 1788 - present". Frank LaRose, Ohio Secretary of State. State of Ohio. Retrieved 29 July 2014.