1863 Civil War, Ohio Political Election Ticket, John Brough for Governor

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This is a 1863 Civil War Ohio political election ticket.  There are a number of races on the ballot.   Running for Governor was John Brough of Cuyahoga County.  The ticket measures 4" x 11" with a blank back.  A 1 1/2" bottom edge is folded up.
John Brough
(
/
ˈ
b
r
ʌ
f
/
; rhymes with "huff") (September 17, 1811 – August 29, 1865) was a
War Democrat
politician from
Ohio
. He served as the 26th
governor of Ohio
during the final years of the
American Civil War
, dying in office of
gangrene
shortly after the war concluded.
Born in
Marietta, Ohio
, to an English immigrant and a Pennsylvania-born mother, Brough was orphaned at the age of 11. To support himself, he became a printer's apprentice, and later received three years of part-time education at
Ohio University
, where he worked part-time as a reporter for the
Athens Mirror
. He rose to become a newspaper publisher in Marietta and then in
Lancaster
, where he and his brother Charles purchased the
Ohio Eagle
, a paper that espoused the views of the
Democratic Party
.
Ohio
Republicans
and War Democrats dissatisfied with the leadership of Ohio Gov.
David Tod
turned to Brough after he made a strongly pro-Union speech in his hometown of Marietta on June 10, 1863. He was elected to the governorship that fall on a pro-Union ticket, partly due to his stronger support than Tod of the anti-slavery direction that the Northern war effort was taking. Having been elected as a representative of the
Unionist Party
, Brough is the last Ohio governor to date who was neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Brough also defeated
Copperhead
leader
Clement Vallandigham
. This prompted President
Abraham Lincoln
to wire Brough, "Glory to God in the Highest. Ohio has saved the Nation."
Brough took office in January 1864. Ohio historian Walter Havighurst described Brough as being "a big bull of a man with driving energy," and Richard H. Abbott wrote that he "had a reputation for rough and ready politics with a temperament to match... [he was] a blunt, outspoken, rude man who loved to chew tobacco [and thus] presented quite a contrast with his two handsome and dignified predecessors,
William Dennison
and David Tod."
As governor, Brough strongly supported the Lincoln Administration's war efforts and was key to persuading other Midwestern governors to raise
100-day regiments
in early 1864 to release  more seasoned troops for duty in Gen.
Ulysses S. Grant
's spring campaign. Ohio contributed more than 34,000 troops, and was the only one of the five participating states (the others were
Indiana
,
Illinois
,
Iowa
and
Wisconsin
) to exceed its quota.
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