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Charles Anderson (Twenty-seventh Governor of the State of Ohio, attorney, politician, stock raiser, and soldier.)

b. 1814-06-01 d. 1895-09-02

Twenty-seventh Governor of the State of Ohio, attorney, politician, stock raiser, and soldier. Jefferson County, Kentucky, native. Son of Richard Clough Anderson and Sarah Marshall Anderson. Married Eliza J. Brown Anderson in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio, on September 16, 1865. Father of Latham Anderson, Kitty Anderson, and Bell Anderson. Graduated from Miami University in Butler County, Ohio, in 1833. Served in the Senate of the State of Ohio from Montgomery County in 1844. Attorney in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1850. Stock raiser in Bexar County, Texas, in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Bexar County in 1860. Served in the 93rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from August 25, 1862, to February 21, 1863. Wounded at the Battle of Stone's River, Rutherford County, Tennessee. Resigned on February 21, 1863. Served as Lieutenant Governor of the State of Ohio from 1864 to 1865. Served as Acting Governor of the State of Ohio from 1865 to 1866.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati Ward 7, p. 445A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Texas, Bexar County, p. 475.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Texas, Bexar County, p. 17.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, Eddyville, p. 44B.

"Ohio Redeemed! Victory! Victory! The State Is Safe!" Summit Beacon (Akron, OH), October 16, 1844, p. 2.

"Gov. Anderson," The Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, OH), September 3, 1895, p. 1.

Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, KY, National 2316, State 116.

Frank Conover, ed., Centennial Portrait and Biographical Record of the City of Dayton and of Montgomery County, Ohio: Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent Representative Citizens, together with the Biographies and Portraits of the Presidents of the United States and Biographies of the Governors of Ohio (Chicago: A.W. Bowen & Co., 1897), 152-3.

Whitelaw Reid, Ohio in the War: Her Statesmen, Generals, and Soldiers, vol. II (Cincinnati, OH: The Robert Clarke Company, 1895), 517.

Joseph P. Smith, ed., History of the Republican Party in Ohio, vol. 1 (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1898), 165.

Lineage Book: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, vol. XXXII (Harrisburg, PA: Telegraph Printing Company, 1911), 9-10.

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Anderson, Charles. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202240 (November 12, 2026).

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