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Foraker, Joseph Benson

soldier, lawyer, governor, United States senator, was born July 5, 1846, near Rainsboro, Highland county, Ohio.

He enlisted July 14, 1862, as a private in company A, eighty-ninth regiment Ohio volunteer infantry, with which organization he served until the close of the war, at which time he held the rank of first lieutenant and brevet captain. He was elected judge of the superior court of Cincinnati in April, 1879; resigned on account of ill-health in 1882. He was the republican candidate for governor of Ohio in 1883, but was defeated; and was elected to that office in 1885, and re-elected in 1887. He was again nominated for governor and defeated in 1889; and was elected United States senator and took his seat March 4, 1897.