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Samuel Medary
This formal portrait represents Samuel Medary, 1801-1864, newspaper editor and publisher from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He serves as the sixth territorial governor of Kansas from December 20, 1859 until December 10, 1860. Prior to his appointment as a territorial governor, Medary is elected, in 1834, to the Ohio House of Representatives and later to the Ohio State Senate, 1836-38, as a Jackson Democrat. In 1857 he is appointed governor of the Minnesota Territory, 1857-1858. When he resigns as the territorial governor of Kansas, in 1860, Medary returns to Columbus, Ohio to establish the newspaper the Crisis, which he continues to publish until his death in 1864.
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This formal portrait shows Samuel Medary (1801-1864), a newspaper editor and publisher from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. He served as the sixth territorial Governor of Kansas from December 20, 1859 until December 10, 1860. Prior to his appointment as a territorial Governor, Medary was elected in 1834 to the Ohio House of Representatives and later to the Ohio State Senate from 1836 to 1838 as a Jackson Democrat. In 1857, he was appointed Governor of the Minnesota Territory. He served in this position until he was appointed in December of 1858 as the governor of Kansas Territory. He resigned from that position in 1860 to return to Columbus, Ohio, to establish the newspaper the Crisis, which he continued to publish until his death in 1864.
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