List of Ohio politicians by federal office

Many politicians and lawyers from the state of Ohio have served in senior positions in the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the United States federal government. These have included seven presidents, three presidents of the Senate, two speakers of the House of Representatives, and three chief justices of the United States.

Executive branch

Presidents of the United States and candidates

Name	Life dates	Party	Candidate	Nominee	Served
James M. Cox	1870-1957	Democratic		1920
James A. Garfield	1831-1881	Republican		1880	1881
John H. Glenn Jr.	1921-2016	Democratic	1984
Ulysses S. Grant	1822-1885	Republican		1868, 1872	1869-1877
Warren G. Harding	1865-1923	Republican		1920	1921-1923
Benjamin Harrison	1833-1901	Republican		1888, 1892	1889-1893
Rutherford B. Hayes	1822-1893	Republican		1876	1877-1881
William McKinley	1843-1901	Republican		1896, 1900	1843-1901
William H. Taft I	1857-1930	Republican		1908, 1912	1909-1913
Aaron S. Watkins	1863-1941	(Prohibition)		1920

Vice presidents of the United States and candidates

Name	Life dates	Party	Candidate	Served
John W. Bricker	1893–1986	Republican	1944
Samuel F. Cary	1814–1900	Greenback	1876
Thomas A. Hendricks	1819–1885	Democratic	1884	1885
Thomas Morris	1776–1844	Liberty	1844
George H. Pendleton	1825–1889	Democratic	1864
Allen G. Thurman	1813–1895	Democratic	1888
Aaron S. Watkins	1863–1941	Prohibition	1908, 1912

Cabinet secretaries

Name	Life dates	Party	Offices (with dates of service)
Newton D. Baker	1871-1937	Democratic	1916-1921: Secretary of War
Anthony J. Celebrezze Sr.	1910-1998	Democratic	1962-1965: Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
Salmon P. Chase	1808-1873	Republican	1861-1864: Secretary of the Treasury
Thomas Corwin	1794-1865	Whig	1850-1853: Secretary of the Treasury
William B. Saxbe	1916-2010	Republican	1974-1975: Attorney General
John Sherman	1823-1900	Republican	1877-1881: Secretary of the Treasury 1897-1898: Secretary of State
Alphonso Taft	1810-1891	Republican	1876: Secretary of War 1876-1877: Attorney General
William H. Taft I	1857-1930	Republican	1904-1908: Secretary of War

United States ambassadors

• List of ambassadors of the United States from Ohio

Other federal officers

Name	Life dates	Party	Positions and dates
William H. Taft I	1857-1930	Republican	1901-1904: Civilian Governor of the Philippines
Mary Ellen Withrow	1930-	Democratic	1994-2001: U.S. Treasurer

Legislative branch

Senate

Presidents pro tempore of the United States Senate

Name	Life dates	Party	Term(s) of service
John Sherman	1823-1900	Republican	1885-1887
Allen G. Thurman	1813-1895	Democratic	1879-1880
Benjamin F. Wade	1800-1878	Republican	1867-1869

Majority leaders of the United States Senate

None

Minority leaders of the United States Senate

Name	Life dates	Party	Term(s) of service
Robert A. Taft I	1889-1953	Republican	1953

Democratic leadership officeholders (whips, conference chairmen, etc.) of the United States Senate

Name	Life dates	Term(s) of service
George H. Pendleton	1825-1889	Democratic Conference Chairman: 1881-1885

Republican leadership officeholders (whips, conference chairmen, etc.) of the United States Senate

Name	Life dates	Term(s) of service
Harold H. Burton	1888-1964	Republican Conference Secretary: 1944-1945
Simeon D. Fess	1861-1936	Republican Whip: 1929-1933
John Sherman	1823-1900	Republican Conference Chairman: 1884-1885, 1891-1897
Robert A. Taft I	1889-1953	Republican Policy Committee Chairman: 1947-1952

United States senators and candidates

Name	Life dates	Party	Candidate	Term(s) of service
Israel Amter			1928s
Donald E. Babcock		American	1976
George H. Bender	1869-1961	Republican	1954s, 1956	1954-1957
Gilbert Bettman	1881-1942	Republican	1932
James E. Betts	1932/1933-	Republican	1980
Mary O. Boyle	1941-	Democratic	1998
John W. Bricker	1893-1986	Republican	1946, 1952, 1958	1947-1959
John Marshall Briley		Republican	1962
Robert J. Bulkley	1880-1965	Democratic	1930s, 1932, 1938	1930-1933
Thomas A. Burke	1898-1971	Democratic	1954s	1953-1954
Harold Hitz Burton	1888-1964	Republican	1940	1941-1946
Theodore E. Burton	1851-1929	Republican	1928s	1928-1929
Theodore S. Celeste	1954-	Democratic	2000
R. Michael DeWine	1947-	Republican	1992, 1994, 2000	1995-2006
Michael DiSalle	1908-1981	Democratic	1952
A. Victor Donahey	1873-1946	Democratic	1934	1935-1941
John Eastman		Natural Law	2000
William Farkas		Socialist Labor	1946, 1958
Joseph T. Ferguson		Democratic	1950
Simeon D. Fess	1861-1936	Republican	1922, 1928, 1934	1923-1935
Eric D. Fingerhut	1959-	Democratic	2004
I. O. Ford		Communist	1932
Emma Lila Fundaburk			1976
John J. Gilligan	1921-2013	Democratic	1968
John H. Glenn Jr.	1921-2016	Democratic	1974, 1986, 1992	1975-1999
? Goerke		Socialist Labor	1926
James Goward			1928
Virginia D. Green			1922
Martha Kathryn Grevatt			1992
Kathleen G. Harroff			1974
Philip Herzing		Libertarian	1982
James W. Huffman	1894-1980	Democratic	1946
Graham P. Hunt		Democratic	1928s
J. Wetherell Hutton			1928
Joel Z. Hyatt	1950-	Democratic	1994
Richard B. Kay		American Independent	1970, 1974
Thomas N. Kindness	1929-2014	Republican	1986
Frank J. Lausche	1895-1990	Democratic	1956, 1962	1957-1963
Cyrus Locher	1878-1929	Democratic		1928
John McAlister		Libertarian	2000
Roscoe C. McCulloch	1880-1958	Republican	1930s
John McSweeney	1890-1969	Democratic	1940
Frank M. Mecartney	1890-1969	(Prohibition)	1932
Alicia Merel			1982
Howard M. Metzenbaum	1917-2008	Democratic	1970, 1976, 1982, 1988	1974-1975, 1977-1995
Rick Nagin			1980
John O'Neill		Socialist Labor	1970, 1976
Ralph J. Perk	1914-1999	Republican	1974
Paul E. Pfeifer	1942-	Republican	1982
William G. Pickrel	1888-1966	Democratic	1944
Atlee Pomerene	1863-1937	Democratic	1922
John E. Powers			1980
W. C. Sandberg		Communist	1934
William B. Saxbe	1916-2010	Republican	1968	1969-1974
Melissa Singler			1976
Joseph J. Slovenec			1994
Anna K. Storck			1926
Henry B. Strong			1926
Kingsley A. Taft	1903-1970	Republican	1946s	1946-1947
Robert A. Taft	1889-1953	Republican	1938, 1944, 1950	1939-1953
Robert Taft Jr.	1917-1993	Republican	1964, 1970, 1976	1971-1976
Charles V. Truax	1887-1935	Democratic	1928
Henry P. Webber		Democratic	1946
Frank B. Willis	1871-1928	Republican	1920, 1926	1920-1928
Joseph Willnecker			1928
George V. Voinovich	1936-2016	Republican	1988, 1998, 2004	1999-present
Stephen M. Young	1889-1984	Democratic	1958, 1964	1959-1971

House of Representatives

Speakers of the United States House of Representatives

Name	Life dates	Party	Term(s) of service
J. Warren Keifer	1836-1932	Republican	1881-1883
Nicholas Longworth	1869-1931	Republican	1925-1931

Majority leaders of the United States House of Representatives

Name	Life dates	Party	Term(s) of service
Nicholas Longworth	1869-1931	Republican	1923-1925

Minority leaders of the United States House of Representatives

None

Democratic leadership officeholders (whips, caucus chairmen, etc.) in the United States House of Representatives

Name	Life dates	Position (with dates of service)
George W. Geddes	1824-1892	1883-1885: Democratic Caucus Chairman
Edson B. Olds	1802-1869	1853-1855: Democratic Caucus Chairman

Republican leadership officeholders (whips, conference chairmen, etc.) in the United States House of Representatives

Name	Life dates	Position (with dates of service)
John A. Boehner	1949-	1995-1999: Republican Conference Chairman
Samuel L. Devine	1915-1997	1979-1981: Republican Conference Chairman
Charles H. Grosvenor	1833-1917	1895-1899: Republican Conference Chairman
Deborah D. Pryce	1951-	2003–present: Republican Conference Chairman
Robert C. Schenck	1809-1890	1869-1871: Republican Conference Chairman

United States representatives and candidates

• List of candidates for U.S. Representative from Ohio
• List of candidates for U.S. Representative from Ohio, A-G
• List of candidates for U.S. Representative from Ohio, H-M
• List of candidates for U.S. Representative from Ohio, N-Z

Judicial branch

Chief justices of the United States

Name	Life dates	Appointed by	Party	Term(s) of service
Salmon P. Chase	1808-1873	Lincoln	Republican	1864-1873
William H. Taft I	1857-1930	Harding	Republican	1921-1930
Morrison R. Waite	1816-1888	Grant	Republican	1874-1888

Associate justices of the United States Supreme Court

Name	Life dates	Appointed by	Party	Term(s) of service
Harold H. Burton	1888-1964	Truman	Republican	1945-1958
John Hessin Clarke	1857-1945	Wilson	Democratic	1916-1922
William R. Day	1849-1923	T. Roosevelt	Republican	1903-1922
Stanley Matthews	1824-1889	Garfield	Republican	1881-1889
John McLean	1785-1861	Jackson	Democratic	1830-1861
Potter Stewart	1915-1985	Eisenhower	Republican	1958-1981
Noah Haynes Swayne	1804-1884	Lincoln	Republican	1862-1881
William Burnham Woods	1824-1887	Grant	Democratic	1880-1887

Judges of United States Courts of Appeal

Name	Life dates	Party	Circuit	Term(s) of service
Anthony J. Celebrezze Sr.	1910-1998	Democratic	6th	1965-1980