district state_senate succeeded predecessor successor birth_place party article_title office preceded birth_date term_start state term_end name
8th ohio lou blessing paul gillmor richard finan cincinnati , ohio republican stan aronoff
 89th president of the ohio senate '' district created '' 8 june 1932 january 3 , 1989 january 3 , 1967 ohio december 31 , 1996 december 31 , 1996 stanley aronoff
stan aronoff

stanley j. aronoff -lrb- born june 8 , 1932 -rrb- is an american politician of the republican party who served for a time as president of the ohio senate .
aronoff was raised in a jewish family in the north avondale neighborhood of cincinnati and attended high school at walnut hills high school .
he earned a bachelor 's degree and a law degree from harvard university , after which he returned to cincinnati to enter into the private practice of law .
in 1960 , ambrose lindhorst -lrb- the head of the hamilton county republican party -rrb- , walton bachrach -lrb- mayor of cincinnati -rrb- , and republican operative george eyrich persuaded aronoff to run for a seat in the ohio general assembly .
he began serving in the ohio house of representatives in 1961 and was re-elected twice , serving until 1967 .
in 1966 , aronoff won a seat in the ohio senate .
he was reelected in 1968 , and again in 1972 .
in the 1974 primary election , he made an unsuccessful bid for the republican nomination for ohio attorney general .
he won reelection to the senate in 1976 .
in 1978 , aronoff sought the party 's nomination for a seat in the united states house of representatives , but party bosses endorsed television news broadcaster thearon `` tom '' atkins instead .
it was suspected that with the jewish bill gradison already representing the hamilton county republican party in congress , that party leaders shied away from endorsing another jew for cincinnati 's other congressional seat .
nevertheless , aronoff prevailed in the republican primary , but lost in the general election in a close race to democrat tom luken .
by the 1980 elections , the republican party achieved a majority in the ohio senate , and aronoff was named chairman of the finance committee .
however , the party was again in the minority two years later .
in the 1984 campaign , aronoff 's success at fundraising was key to the republican recapture of the senate .
the senate republican leader was paul gillmor , but when gillmor won a seat in congress in 1988 , aronoff became president of the senate .
in 1995 , aronoff -- - along with other legislators , such as democratic ohio house of representatives speaker vern riffe -- was the subject of an investigation into `` fee pancaking '' .
the law required that legislators disclose the acceptance of a speaking fee if it is in excess of $ 500 .
`` pancaking '' involved accepting fees of less than $ 500 from more than one source for the same event in order to avoid disclosure .
aronoff pleaded guilty to accepting $ 4,500 in fees from various arms of the limited company without disclosure in violation of this law .
he was sentenced to community service , which he fulfilled by giving lectures to students on government ethics .
by 1996 , term limits were in effect .
aronoff was eligible to run for one more term in the senate .
however , he decided to retire from public services .
he helped found the law firm of aronoff , rosen and hunt .
