The Ohio Presidents

<p> Ohio sent eight presidents to the White House--one Whig and seven Republicans--from 1841 to 1923: William Harrison U.S. Grant Rutherford Hayes James Garfield Benjamin Harrison William McKinley William Taft and Warren Harding. Collectively their social policies and beliefs formed a unified philosophy and legacy.</p><p> Ohio republicanism--an alliance of Christianity populism nationalism industrialism and conservative economics--dominated politics across America from 1860 to 1930. Initially several factions in search of a party it morphed from the anti-slavery Whig Party of Abraham Lincoln and swallowed up a group of single-issue parties including the Abolition and Free Soil parties under a national banner. The ghost of Ohio republicanism can still be seen today.</p>