J. L. Carpenter
Jeremiah Longfellow Jerry Carpenter was an American politician in the state of Ohio. He served in the Ohio House of Representatives for Meigs County and later the Ohio State Senate for the Eighth District .
Carpenter was born at a farm, Lawnfield, at Columbia Township, Meigs County, Ohio, in 1839, to Jeremiah and Sarah Ann Carpenter. He was educated in the surrounding schools and became a farmer by occupation, particularly livestock farming. During his time in the Ohio General Assembly, he focused on agricultural educational issues for his particular districts. A Republican, Carpenter was also on many occasions a member of the Ohio State Central Committee. In the Senate, he sat as chairman on the Committee on Agriculture and Penitentiary, and as a member of the Finance, Labor, Common Schools, School Land, Privileges and Elections, Benevolent Institutions, Agriculture, and Rules. His state political service was lauded by the Ohio State Board of Agriculture for his active interest in the farmers the agricultural societies, as bodies and as individuals, have never asked anything of him that he didnt take up with pleasure and desire to execute for their interests.
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