Editing Allen Trimble

{{Short description|American politician (1783–1870)}}
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|name                = Allen Trimble
|image               = Allen Trimble.jpg
|caption             = 
|order1              = 8th & 10th
|office1             = Governor of Ohio
|term_start1         = December 19, 1826
|term_end1           = December 18, 1830
|predecessor1        = [[Jeremiah Morrow]]
|successor1          = [[Duncan McArthur]]
|term_start2         = January 4, 1822
|term_end2           = December 28, 1822
|predecessor2        = [[Ethan Allen Brown]] 
|successor2          = Jeremiah Morrow
|office3             = 12th [[Speaker of the Ohio Senate]]
|term_start3         = December 6, 1819
|term_end3           = December 3, 1826
|predecessor3        = [[Robert Lucas (governor)|Robert Lucas]] 
|successor3          = [[Abraham Shepherd]]
|office4             = Member of the [[Ohio Senate]] from [[Highland County, Ohio|Highland]] and [[Fayette County, Ohio|Fayette]] counties
|term_start4         = 1817
|term_end4           = 1826
|preceded4           = Samuel Evans
|succeeded4          = John Jones
|office5             = Member of the [[Ohio House of Representatives]] from [[Highland County, Ohio|Highland]] County
|term_start5         = 1816
|term_end5           = 1817
|preceded5           = James Johnston
|succeeded5          = Joseph Swearingen
|birth_date          = {{birth date|1783|11|24}}
|birth_place         = [[Augusta County, Virginia]]
|death_date          = {{Death date and age|1870|2|3|1783|11|24}}
|death_place         = [[Hillsboro, Ohio]]
|nationality         = 
|party               = {{Plainlist|
* [[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]]
* [[National Republican Party|National Republican]]
* [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]]
* [[Know Nothing]]
* [[Constitutional Union Party (United States)|Constitutional Union]]
}}
|spouse              =
|relations           = {{Plainlist|
* James Trimble (father)
* Jane Allen Trimble (mother)
}}
|children            = [[Eliza Thompson]] (daughter)
|residence           =
|alma_mater          =
|occupation          =
|profession          =
|religion            =
|signature           = Signature of Allen Trimble.png
}}
'''Allen Trimble''' (November 24, 1783 – February 3, 1870) was a [[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]] and [[National Republican]] politician from [[Ohio]]. He served as the eighth and tenth [[governor of Ohio]], first concurrently as Senate Speaker, later elected twice in his own right.

==Biography==
Governor Trimble was born Hugh Allen Trimble in [[Augusta County, Virginia]] to James Trimble, [[U.S. Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] veteran, and Jane Allen Trimble.<ref name="histsoc">{{cite web|url=http://www.ohiohistory.org/onlinedoc/ohgovernment/governors/trimble.html |title=Allen Trimble |publisher=Ohio Historical Society |access-date=July 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120516024430/http://www.ohiohistory.org/onlinedoc/ohgovernment/governors/trimble.html |archive-date=May 16, 2012 }}</ref> He was of [[Scots-Irish American|Ulster Scots]] ancestry.<ref>Scotland's mark on America By George Fraser Black page 57</ref> In October 1784, his father moved his family to a veterans land grant in then [[Fayette County, Kentucky]]. In October 1804, James Trimble died leaving Allen head of the family. Allen Trimble moved them to a homestead he and his father had established outside of [[Hillsboro, Ohio]].<ref name="histsoc" />

==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.

==Death==
Trimble died at his family farm in Ohio, and was buried in Hillsboro Cemetery in Hillsboro, Ohio.

==Legacy==
[[Trimble, Ohio|Trimble]], [[Ohio]], a village in [[Athens County, Ohio]], is named in Trimble's honor. Court Street, a street in [[Hillsboro, Ohio]], on the north side of the [[Highland County Courthouse (Ohio)|Highland County Courthouse]], was renamed "Governor Trimble Place" in 1974.<ref>{{cite news|title=Streets Get New Names And Signs|newspaper=The (Hillsboro) Press Gazette|date=September 11, 1974}}</ref>

Trimble's daughter, [[Eliza Thompson|Eliza]], helped to initiate the [[Temperance movement#United States|temperance movement in the United States]].

Trimble is an ancestor of astronomer [[Virginia Louise Trimble]]<ref>{{cite AV media | people = Virginia Trimble  | year = 2013  | title = 2013 Bullitt Lecture in Astronomy at the University of Louisville with speaker Virginia Trimble, "Blurring the Boundaries Among Physics, Chemistry and Astronomy:  The Moseley and Bohr Centeneries"
 | language = en  | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIEoN8A7y9g  | access-date = October 27, 2016  
 }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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*[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 National Governors Association]
*[http://www.ohiomemory.org/cdm/#ad-image-0 Ohio Memory]
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