State Election Ticket Collection (SC-18)

John Brough was born on September 17, 1811. By the age of 20 he purchased the Washington County Republican a newspaper and sold it in 1833. From 1835 to 1837 he served as clerk for the Ohio Senate and a year later in 1838 he successfully ran as representative for Fairfield and Hocking Counties. John’s love of the newspaper world continued when together with his brother they bought the Cincinnati Advertiser renamed it the Cincinnati Enquirer which was one of the most influential Democratic newspaper before the civil war. In 1863 he ran for governor of Ohio and won but was a highly contested victory. John served from July 11, 1864 to August 29, 1865 in which he died from gangrene from a sprained ankle which had gotten infected.