- Chris Redfern
Chris Redfern (born 1964) is a Democratic State Representative for Ohio House District 80 and chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party. He won election to the chairmanship of the Ohio Democratic Party in December, 2005 and has been a member of the Ohio House since 1999. Mr. Redfern was born in Port Clinton, Ohio.
- Joyce Beatty
Joyce Beatty (born March 12, 1950) of Columbus, Ohio, is a Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives. She served as a delegate for John Kerry on the Ohio delegation to the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. She currently serves as the Minority Leader of the Democratic Caucus of the Ohio House of Representatives. Rep. Beatty is a sought after motivational speaker and a businesswoman who serves as President of Joyce Beatty & Associates, Inc., …
- Kevin Dewine
Kevin DeWine (born 1967) is an American politician of the Republican party. He is a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, currently serving the 70th district, which includes Xenia, Fairborn, and Beavercreek. He is the Majority Whip. Kevin is currently serving in his fourth term. He is also Speaker Pro Tempore as elected in the Ohio House of Representatives as of January of 2007. Kevin graduated from Fairborn High School in 1986, …
- Richard Cordray
Richard Cordray (born May 3, 1959) is an American politician of the Democratic Party who currently serves as the State Treasurer of Ohio. Cordray graduated from Michigan State University, earned a master's degree in economics from Oxford University, and obtained his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School. Cordray was elected to an unexpired term as Treasurer in 2002 defeating political appointee Wade Steen and elected to a full four-year term in 2004.
- Mary Taylor
Mary Taylor is a certified public accountant and a politician from the Republican Party from the state of Ohio. Taylor currently serves as Ohio State Auditor. She previously served in the Ohio House of Representatives. Taylor defeated Democratic candidate Barbara Sykes. Taylor, who succeeded fellow Republican Betty Montgomery as State Auditor, took office in January of 2007.
- Lee Fisher
Lee Fisher (born 7 August, 1951, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American politician. He is a member of the Ohio Democratic Party currently serving as the Lieutenant Governor of Ohio. Fisher also serves as Ohio Director of Development. Fisher is a graduate of Oberlin College (where he has served as a college trustee) and of Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He is a member of Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity.
- Tom Brinkman
Thomas E. Brinkman, Jr. (born December 6 1957 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a Republican (GOP) member of the Ohio House of Representatives from Cincinnati. He is known for his opposition to higher taxes and public spending and has been nicknamed "Dr. No." Before his election to the Ohio General Assembly, he was active in Cincinnati politics and has been popular among rank-and-file conservatives for his strong anti-abortion and anti-taxation stances.
- Ray Miller
Ray Miller of Columbus, Ohio, is an American politician of the Democratic party who serves as a member of the Ohio Senate. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in political science and a master of arts degree in public administration from Ohio State University. Miller served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1981 to 1993 and from 1998 to 2002. He was elected to the senate in 2002. Miller is president of Professional Employment Services of America.
- Charlie Wilson
Charles A. "Charlie" Wilson (b.January 18 1943 in Bridgeport, Ohio) is a Democratic politician from the U.S State of Ohio. He currently serves in the U.S. House of Representatives. Wilson was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1996 and to the State Senate in 2004. In 2006, he was elected to serve as the U.S. Representative for Ohio's 6th Congressional District, the seat formerly held by Ohio Governor Ted Strickland.
- Jimmy Stewart
Jimmy Stewart (R), a Full-time Legislator, represents the 92 Ohio House Disrtict Ohio House of Representatives. The 92 Ohio House District encompasses all of Athens County, Meigs County, Morgan County, and parts of Washington County. Representative Stewart is serving in his third term in the Ohio House. Representative Stewart acts as Chairman of the Human Services Subcommittee of Finance, and is on the following committees: Finance and Appropriations; Financial Institution, …
- Larry Householder
Larry Householder of Glenford, Ohio, is an American politician of the Republican party who served as speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives from 2001 to 2005. Householder worked in the insurance business in Perry County, Ohio, before entering politics. In 1994, Householder was elected to the office of county commissioner. In 1996, he was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives. After serving two terms in the Ohio House of Representatives, …
- Jennifer Garrison
Jennifer Garrison (born 1962 in Fort Thomas, Kentucky) is an American politician of the Democratic party from Marietta, Ohio. In 2004, she unseated former twelve-day Ohio Gov. Nancy P. Hollister to win a seat in the Ohio House of Representatives from the 93rd District. Garrison represents most of Washington County, Guernsey County, Monroe County, Noble County, and part of Muskingum County, all in southeast Ohio.
- Bob Gibbs
Bob Gibbs, of Lakeville, Ohio, is an American politician in the Republican Party who currently represents the 97th House District in the Ohio House of Representatives.
- Edna Brown
Edna Brown of Toledo, Ohio, is a Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives. She served as a delegate for John Kerry on the Ohio delegation to the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.
- John Boccieri
John Boccieri (born 1969) is a Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Ohio. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, he attended St. Bonaventure University in New York; after graduation, he played minor league baseball in the Frontier League. Following one season of baseball, he began his career in government. After working as staff for several members of the Ohio House of Representatives, Boccieri joined the United States Air Force as a lieutenant.
- Paul Hackett
Paul Lewis Hackett III (born March 30, 1962) is a trial lawyer and veteran of the Iraq War who unsuccessfully sought election to the United States Congress from the Second District of Ohio (map) in the August 2, 2005, special election. Hackett, a Democrat, narrowly lost to Republican Jean Schmidt, a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, providing the best showing in the usually solidly Republican district by any Democrat since the 1974 election.
- Michael Debose
Michael DeBose is a Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives for District 12. He was first elected to that position on 13 February 2002. He attended Cleveland State University, where he earned a BA in Mass-Media Communications. He is also an ordained and licensed minister of the Zion Chapel Baptist church. He is married with three children. As of 2006 he is on his third term in office, …
- Steve Driehaus
Steven L. Driehaus of Cincinnati, Ohio was first elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in November, 2000. As House minority whip — a post he has held since 2003 — Driehaus has taken a leadership role on issues such as election law and redistricting reform. A fiscal conservative, Rep. Driehaus is the sponsor of legislation that would force a review of the billions of dollars Ohio now foregoes in "tax expenditures." Driehaus, …
- Tyrone Yates
Tyrone K. Yates of Cincinnati, Ohio is a 2nd term Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives. A Cincinnati native, Representative Yates is a 1972 graduate of Withrow High School. He is a 1978 graduate of the University of Cincinnati with a B.A. degree in History and holds the Juris Doctor degree from the University of Toledo College of Law.
- Jim Jordan
James D. "Jim" Jordan (born February 17, 1964, Urbana, Ohio) is an American politician of the Republican party who serves as a U.S. Representative from the Fourth Congressional District of Ohio. He was first elected in 2006, defeating Democrat Rick Siferd 60% to 40%. Jordan was born and raised in Champaign County, Ohio, and attended Graham High School, where he graduated in 1982. While at Graham, he was a four-time state wrestling champion with a career record of 150-1.
- Pat Tiberi
Patrick Joseph "Pat" Tiberi (born October 21, 1962 in Columbus, Ohio) is a former four-term member of Ohio House of Representatives who is now a United States Congressman for the 12th District, currently serving his fourth term in Congress. He is a member of the House Financial Services Committee, House Education Committee, the Workforce Committee, and is currently the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Select Education.
- Gary Cates
Gary Cates of West Chester Township, Butler County, Ohio, is an American politician of the Republican party. He held a seat in the Ohio House of Representatives. In 2004, he successfully ran for a seat in the Ohio Senate to succeed Republican state Sen. Scott Nein, who was prevented from running by Ohio's term limits law. In that election, Cates defeated Melvin Smith.
- Danny Bubp
Danny R. Bubp (born 1954) is a first term member of the Ohio House of Representatives from District 88, West Union, Ohio. He is a member of the US Republican Party. Bubp has a B.S. in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati in 1978 and a J.D. from the Ohio Northern University College of Law in 1984. He earned the rank of colonel in the Marine Corps Reserves. Bubp worked as a lawyer in Adams County, Ohio and served as probate and juvenile judge for a year.
- Vern Riffe
Vernal G. Riffe Jr. (born in June 1925; died July 31, 1997 in Columbus, Ohio) was an American politician of the Democratic party. Riffe served for many years in the Ohio House of Representatives and was the longest serving speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives in the history of that institution, holding that office for 20 years.
- Tom Raga
Thomas A. Raga (born 1965) is an American politician of the Republican Party who previously represented the Sixty-seventh District (Warren County) in the Ohio House of Representatives. In February 2006, he was named by J. Kenneth Blackwell as his running mate in the May 2, 2006, primary for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. Blackwell and Raga won the Republican nomination, but lost the November 7, 2006, general election to Ted Strickland and Lee Fisher in a landslide, …
- Robert Hagan
Robert E. Hagan of Youngstown, Ohio, was an American politician of the Democratic party. Hagan was an ironworker in Youngstown and served as a county commissioner in Trumbull County, Ohio, before being elected to the Ohio General Assembly in the district of his adopted hometown of Madison, Ohio. During his three terms in the legislature, 1983-1989, he was known as the assembly's most liberal member.
- Teresa Fedor
Teresa Fedor of Toledo, Ohio, is an American politician of the Democratic party, who as of January 2007 (127th Ohio General Assembly) serves as the minority leader in the Ohio Senate. Fedor holds a bachelor of science degree in education from the University of Toledo. Fedor was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 2000 and served one term in that body before she was elected to the state senate in 2002.
- Ron Amstutz
State Senator Ron Amstutz, of Wooster, Ohio, is an American politician of the Republican Party. He was first elected to the Ohio Senate in 2000, after serving in the Ohio House of Representatives for 20 years. Senator Amstutz is currently the longest serving member of the Ohio General Assembly. In 2004 he was re-elected, without opposition to a district which includes all of Medina, Wayne and Holmes counties, plus about 3/5th of Ashland County, …
- John Carey
John Carey (April 5, 1792 - March 17, 1875) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Monongalia County, Virginia (now West Virginia), Carey moved with his parents to the Northwest Territory in 1798. He served under General Hull in the War of 1812. He served as associate judge 1825-1832. He was appointed Indian agent at the Wyandotte Reservation in 1829. He served as member of the Ohio House of Representatives in 1828, 1836, and 1843.
- Tom Roberts
Tom Roberts of Trotwood, Ohio, is an American politician of the Democratic party who serves as a member of the Ohio Senate. Roberts holds a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Dayton and an associate's degree from Sinclair Community College. He was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1986 and served there from 1987 to 2001. In 2000, he was elected to the state senate. He was re-elected in 2002 and in 2006.
- Howard Metzenbaum
Howard Morton Metzenbaum (born June 4 1917) is an American politician who served for almost 20 years as a Democratic member of the U.S. Senate (1974, 1976-1995). Metzenbaum, who is Jewish, was born in Cleveland and received a bachelor's degree from The Ohio State University in 1939 and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the same school in 1941. During the 1940s, he practiced law in Cleveland, mostly for labor unions, …
- C. J. Prentiss
C. J. Prentiss is an American politician of the Democratic party who served in the Ohio State Senate from 2000 until 2007. During the 126th Ohio General Assembly, she served as Minority Leader. She earned a bachelor of arts degree and a masters degree in education from Cleveland State University. She holds a post-graduate certificate in Administration from Kent State University.
- Chuck Blasdel
Chuck Blasdel (born 1971) is a former Speaker Pro-Tempore in the Ohio House of Representatives., and was the Representative of Ohio's 1st district since 2001. He was the Republican nominee for U.S. Congress in Ohio's 6th congressional district.
- Nancy Hollister
Nancy Putnam Hollister (born May 22, 1949) is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Ohio. She attended Kent State University, and upon leaving college she became a housewife. She began her political career as a member of the city council of Marietta, Ohio. Later, she was elected mayor of Marietta. She was elected to the position of Lieutenant Governor of Ohio in 1994 as the running mate of George Voinovich. She briefly served as Governor of Ohio from December 31, …
- Jack Ford
Jack Ford (born May 181947) is an American Democratic politician who served as the mayor of Toledo, Ohio from January 2002 to January 2006. A graduate of Ohio State University, Jack Ford received his Master's degree in Public Administration and his law degree from the University of Toledo. He spent most of his working life as an educator, teaching primarily at the University of Toledo for 22 years, but also at Bowling Green State University and Owens Community College.
- Rhine McLin
Rhine Lana McLin (born March 10, 1948) is an American politician of the Ohio Democratic party, currently serving as mayor of Dayton, Ohio. McLin received a bachelor of arts degree in sociology and secondary education from Parsons College (Iowa) and a master's degree in education (guidance counseling) from Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio). She holds an associate's degree in mortuary science. In 1988, when McLin's father, Ohio state Rep.
- Ron Hood
Ron Hood (born 1969) is a first-term Republican legislator in the Ohio House of Representatives. He represents the 91<sup>st</sup> District.
- Bob McEwen
Robert D. "Bob" McEwen (born January 12 1950) is an American politician of the Republican Party, who was a member of the United States House of Representatives from southern Ohio's Sixth District, from January 3 1981 to January 3 1993. Tom Deimer of Cleveland's "Plain Dealer" described him as a "textbook Republican" who is "opposed to abortion, gun control, high taxes, and costly government programs." In the House, …
- Tom Letson
Tom Letson (September 29, 1952 -) is a member of the Ohio House of Representatives where he serves the people of the 64th district.
- Thomas Worthington
Thomas Worthington (July 16, 1773 - June 20, 1827) was a Democratic-Republican politician from Ohio. He served as the 6th Governor of Ohio. Born in Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia), Worthington moved to Ross County, Ohio in 1796. The home he eventually built just outside of Chillicothe was called Adena and happens to be the namesake of the Adena culture.