Editing Allen Trimble (section)

==Career==
Trimble was a clerk of the Common Pleas Court in 1808. He also served as recorder of deeds in 1808.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.nga.org/cms/render/live/en/sites/NGA/home/governors/past-governors-bios/page_ohio/col2-content/main-content-list/title_trimble_allen.html|title=Ohio Governor Allen Trimble|publisher= National Governors Association|access-date=July 11, 2012}}</ref>

After briefly serving during the [[War of 1812]], Trimble served in the [[Ohio House of Representatives]] from 1816 to 1817 and then in the [[Ohio State Senate]] from 1818 to 1826. Trimble became Speaker of the Senate, and it was in this capacity that he became governor from January to December 1822 when Governor [[Ethan Allen Brown]] resigned to take a seat in the [[United States Senate]].

Trimble ran an election for a full term in [[1822 Ohio gubernatorial election|1822]], but narrowly lost. He challenged [[Jeremiah Morrow]] again in [[1824 Ohio gubernatorial election|1824]], narrowing the distance between the two, but still losing. He won a landslide election in 1826, however, as a [[National Republican Party|National Republican]] and then won a second full term in 1828. Trimble did not seek re-election in 1830. 

He then retired to farming, taking little part in politics for the next quarter-century, but did consent to accepting the nomination of the [[Know Nothing|Know-Nothings]] for governor in [[1855 Ohio gubernatorial election|1855]]. Trimble came in third, losing to [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] [[List of United States Senators from Ohio|US Senator]] [[Salmon Chase]] and incumbent [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[William Medill]]. In 1860 he was a delegate to the [[United States Constitutional Union Party|Constitutional Union Party]] convention in Baltimore.