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Thomas Ewing
1st United States Secretary of the Interior
In office March 8, 1849 – July 22, 1850
President
Zachary Taylor Millard Fillmore
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Thomas McKennan
14th United States Secretary of the Treasury
In office March 4, 1841 – September 11, 1841
President
William Henry Harrison John Tyler
Preceded by
Levi Woodbury
Succeeded by
Walter Forward
United States Senator from Ohio
In office July 20, 1850 – March 3, 1851
Appointed by
Seabury Ford
Preceded by
Thomas Corwin
Succeeded by
Benjamin Wade
In office March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1837
Preceded by
Jacob Burnet
Succeeded by
William Allen
Personal details
Born
(1789-12-28)December 28, 1789 West Liberty, Virginia, U.S. (now West Virginia)
Died
October 26, 1871(1871-10-26) (aged 81) Lancaster, Ohio, U.S.
Political party
National Republican (Before 1833) Whig (1833–1871)
Spouse
Maria Wills Boyle
Education
Ohio University (BA)
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Thomas Ewing Sr. (December 28, 1789 – October 26, 1871) was a National Republican and Whig politician from Ohio. He served in the U.S. Senate as well as serving as the fourteenth secretary of the treasury and the first secretary of the interior. He is also known as the foster father (and subsequently father-in-law) of famous American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman.
ThomasEwing Sr. (December 28, 1789 – October 26, 1871) was a National Republican and Whig politician from Ohio. He served in the U.S. Senate as well as...
ThomasEwing Sherman, S.J. (October 12, 1856 – April 29, 1933) was an American lawyer, educator, and Catholic priest. He was the fourth child and second...
(nickname, "Ellen") Boyle Ewing was born in Lancaster, Ohio, the daughter of prominent Whig politician ThomasEwing and Maria Boyle Ewing. Her parents also raised...
1913 and 1917. He was the son of General ThomasEwing Jr. and the grandson of Secretary ThomasEwing, Sr. Thomas was born during the Civil War, on 21 May...
Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney ThomasEwing. Ewing was a prominent member of the Whig Party who became U.S. senator...
1867 Tenure of Office Act. Johnson then nominated ThomasEwing. The Senate refused to consider Ewing's nomination, while they moved to impeach Johnson....
Thomas William Ewing (born September 19, 1935 in Atlanta, Illinois) is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives and the...
a member of the prestigious Ewing family, son of ThomasEwing, the eldest brother of ThomasEwing, Jr. and Charles Ewing, and the foster brother and brother-in-law...
so Taylor would be appointing that department's inaugural secretary. ThomasEwing, who had previously served as a senator from Ohio and as Secretary of...
commission to try the conspirators. Mudd was represented by General ThomasEwing Jr. The trial began on May 10. Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt...
Patrick Aloysius Ewing Sr. (born August 5, 1962) is a Jamaican-American basketball coach and former professional player who last coached for the Georgetown...
office Left office President(s) 1 ThomasEwing Ohio March 8, 1849 July 22, 1850 Zachary Taylor Millard Fillmore 2 Thomas M. T. McKennan Pennsylvania August...
address him only in writing. A few days later, however, Treasury Secretary ThomasEwing reported to Harrison that federal funds were in such trouble that the...
by a vote of 33 to 25. Douglas was helped considerably by the work of ThomasEwing Jr., a noted Kansas Free State politician and lawyer, who led a legislative...
Brigadier-General John Marmaduke drove Union troops under Brigadier-General ThomasEwing and Major James Wilson from the lower Arcadia Valley into Fort Davidson...
14 August 1874, prominent surveyor and hydrographer, Commander John ThomasEwing Gowlland was drowned in an accident off the headland. In August 1963...
EwingThomas Kerr (January 21, 1900 – July 1, 1992) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming...
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