succeeded death_date death_place birth_place party office preceded birth_date order term_start image article_title term_end name otherparty
christopher wolcott august 15 , 1856 columbus , ohio new hampshire republican ohio attorney general george wythe mccook 1820 5th january 14 , 1856 seal of the attorney general of ohio.svg francis d. kimball
 august 15 , 1856 francis d. kimball whig
francis d. kimball

francis d. kimball was a republican politician from the state of ohio .
he was ohio attorney general in 1856 .
kimball was born 1820 in new hampshire .
he was reared as a whig and an abolitionist .
in 1842 he moved to medina county , ohio , and was soon elected to county office .
he was prosecuting attorney of medina county 1849-1853 .
he was a champion of the anti-nebraska movement in 1854 , and a founder of the republican party in ohio .
he attended the preliminary national convention at pittsburgh , and the first regular national convention at philadelphia , where he contracted a disease that would lead to his death .
he was nominated for ohio attorney general , and won the election in 1855 .
he died august 15 , 1856 , and was succeeded as attorney general by christopher p. wolcott of summit county by appointment of governor salmon p. chase .
