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Governor Myron Timothy Herrick

Myron Timothy Herrick was a Republican politician from Ohio. He served as the 42nd Governor of Ohio.

From 1885 to 1888, Herrick was a member of Cleveland City Council. Herrick served as the Governor of Ohio from 1904 to 1906; (future United States President) Warren G. Harding served as his Lieutenant Governor. He had been a protégé of political boss Mark Hanna, but in 1906 was defeated by the efforts of Wayne Bidwell Wheeler and the Anti-Saloon League after he refused to support their plan for prohibition of alcohol in Ohio.

He subsequently served as United States Ambassador to France from 1912 to 1914 and again from 1921 to 1929. He is the only American ambassador to France with a street named after him in Paris, in the 8th arrondissement. Herrick was the ambassador who hosted Charles Lindbergh in Paris after his successful New York to Paris Atlantic crossing in 1927.[5] He was an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1916 against Atlee Pomerene.

Herrick was serving as United States Ambassador to France at the time of his death on March 31, 1929. He died from a heart attack. He is interred at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio.[

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Ohio Governor. While teaching school and writing for a newspaper, he earned enough money to attend college, studied law, was admitted to the in 1878, then opened a law office in Cleveland, Ohio. He was a member of the Cleveland City Council, (1885-88), Chairman of the Board for the Society for Savings Bank, (1886-94). He also organized a number of companies, including Quaker Oats and was Director of Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation. He was a member of the staff of Ohio Governor William McKinley, a leading member of the Republican State National Committee and played an influential role in McKinley’s election as President of the United States. In 1904, he was elected as a Republican the 42nd Governor of Ohio, serving until 1906. As Governor, he vetoed legislation designed to permit race track betting and forced changes in a local liquor option refusing to support plans for prohibition of alcohol in Ohio. After leaving office, returned to his business affairs and accepted appointment by President William Howard Taft as Ambassador to France, serving (1912-14) and again as Ambassador to France, in 1921, serving until his death.

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