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Lot 168 A Poem Spoken in the Chapel of Yale College
Return Jonathan Meigs II (1764 - 1825) 
The Bruce M. Lisman Collection of Important American Literature: Part Two 
Return Jonathan Meigs II
17.11.1764 - 29.03.1825
Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr. was a politician, Democrat, Republican, and poet.
Meigs was the son of Jonathan Meigs Sr. (1734-1823), a colonel in the Continental Army during the American War of Independence, graduated from Yale University, where he studied law, and had a colorful political career primarily in Ohio.
In 1798 Meigs was appointed judge of the Northwest Territory and the following year was elected to the territorial legislature. When Ohio became a state in 1803, he became chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. Meigs served as senator 1808 to 1810; he was governor of Ohio from 1810 to 1814. Meigs County, Ohio, and Fort Meigs in Perrysburg, Ohio, are named in his honor.
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The Bruce M. Lisman Collection of Important American Literature: Part Two
Date: 16.06.2023 10:00 UTC -05:00
Number of lots in the catalog: 170