Corwin, Thomas
lawyer, statesman, was born July 29, 1794, in Bourbon county, Ky. He was elected to the Ohio legislature in 1822, and a representative to congress from the Warren district in 1831, in which position he continued until 1840.
He was chosen governor of Ohio in October of that year. In 1845 he was elected United States senator, which office he held until his appointment in the cabinet, in 1850, as secretary of the treasury, under President Fillmore. He died Dec. 18, 1865, in Washington, D. C.
CORWINE, AMOS BRECKINRIDGE, journalist, was born in 1815 in Maysville, Ky. He served during the Mexican war, being a lieutenant in the Mississippi regiment commanded by Jefferson Davis, and was severely wounded at Buena Vista.
After that war, in partnership with his brother Samuel, he edited the Cincinnati Chronicle. During the administrations of Presidents Tyler and Fillmore he was United States consul at Panama. In 1856 he was sent by President Pierce to investigate the Panama massacres, and on his report were based the treaty and adjustment of damages between the United States and New Granada. He was reappointed consul, and remained in Panama until 1861. He died June 22, 1880, in New Rochelle, Ohio.