Biography

Thomas Corwin was born in Kentucky and moved with his parents to Ohio in 1798. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1817. He was elected as a Whig to the 22 and 24 Congresses. He was president of the Ohio Whig convention in 1844. He was elected as a Whig to the US Senate and served from March 4,1845 to July 20, 1850. He was appointed "Secretary of the Treasury by President Millard Fillmore 1850-1853; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses and served from March 4, 1859, to March 12, 1861, when he resigned to enter the diplomatic service." He was also "appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as Minister to Mexico 1861-1864, when he resigned; settled in Washington D.C.." He practiced law until his death on December 18, 1865.