death_date children signature birth_date term_end alma_mater death_place preceded order term_start spouse image name succeeded birth_place party office religion article_title
28 november 1917 seven lyman r. critchfield signature.png 22 may 1831 january 9 , 1865 ohio wesleyan university millersburg , ohio james murray 8th january 12 , 1863 adelaide margaret shaffer lyman r. critchfield 002.png lyman r. critchfield william p. richardson danville , ohio democratic ohio attorney general methodist episcopal church lyman r. critchfield

lyman r. critchfield

lyman r. critchfield -lrb- may 22 , 1831 -- november 28 , 1917 -rrb- was a democratic politician from the state of ohio .
he was ohio attorney general from 1863-1865 .
lyman r. critchfield was born may 22 , 1831 at danville , knox county , ohio .
his family moved to millersburg , holmes county , ohio in 1834 .
he attended public schools and graduated from ohio wesleyan university .
he then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1853 , when he began practicing in millersburg .
he was elected prosecuting attorney of holmes county in 1859 and re-elected in 1861 .
he resigned in 1862 when elected as state attorney general .
in 1862 critchfield was nominated by the democratic party for attorney general , and defeated republican chauncey n. olds in the general election .
in 1864 , he ran again and was defeated by republican william p. richardson .
in 1868 he lost the election for ohio 's 14th congressional district to martin welker .
in 1887 , he was nominated for supreme court judge , but lost to republican william t. spear .
in 1888 he tried again and lost to joseph perry bradbury .
lyman r. critchfield married adelaide margaret shaffer on october 2 , 1854 and had seven children .
he was a mason , and methodist episcopal by faith .
in later years he lived in wooster , ohio .
adelaide burned to death in 1895 , and lyman died at his desk at millersburg in 1917 .
