Ohio Secretary of State

Elected statewide official in the State of Ohio

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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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.

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

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# | Image | Secretary of State | Term of office | Party

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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[a] | 1835–1836 | Democratic
5 |  | Carter B. Harlan[b] | 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[c] | 1862 | Republican
14 |  | Wilson S. Kennon | 1862–1863 | Republican
15 |  | William W. Armstrong | 1863–1865 | Democratic
16 |  | William Henry Smith[c] | 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[d] | 1889–1891 | Republican
26 |  | Christian L. Poorman | 1891–1893 | Republican
27 |  | Samuel McIntire 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 | 1927–1933 | Republican
37 |  | George S. Myers[e] | 1933–1936 | Democratic
38 |  | William J. Kennedy | 1936–1939 | Democratic
39 |  | Earl Griffith[b] | 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 Brunner | 2007–2011 | Democratic
50 |  | Jon Husted | 2011–2019 | Republican
51 |  | Frank LaRose | 2019–present | Republican

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

## See also

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* Ohio Secretary of State elections
* Ohio Attorney General

## References

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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

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

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Political party affiliations
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Secretaries of state of Ohio

* Creighton
* McLene
* Kirby
* Hinkson
* Harlan
* Trevitt
* Sloane
* Galloway
* King
* Trevitt
* Baker
* A. Russell
* Cowen
* Kennon
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* W. Smith
* J. Russell
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* Newman
* Robinson
* Ryan
* Poorman
* Taylor
* Kinney
* Laylin
* Thompson
* Graves
* Hildebrant
* Fulton
* H. Smith
* T. H. Brown
* C. Brown
* Myers
* Kennedy
* Griffith
* Neffiner
* J. Sweeney
* Hummel
* C. Sweeney
* T. W. Brown
* Celebrezze
* S. Brown
* Taft
* Blackwell
* Brunner
* Husted
* LaRose

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