# Benjamin Hough

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**Benjamin Hough**[pronunciation?] (1773 – September 4, 1819) was the second [State Auditor](/source/Ohio_State_Auditor) of the [U.S. State](/source/U.S._State) of [Ohio](/source/Ohio) from 1808 to 1815. He also served in local political offices and in both houses of the [Ohio General Assembly](/source/Ohio_General_Assembly).

Hough was born in [Virginia](/source/Virginia).[1] He was in [Jefferson County](/source/Jefferson_County,_Ohio), [Northwest Territory](/source/Northwest_Territory) by 1802 when he surveyed [Cross Creek Township](/source/Cross_Creek_Township,_Ohio) into quarter [sections](/source/Section_(land)).[2] He was elected a county commissioner at the first election, April 2, 1804, after [Ohio](/source/Ohio) became a state.[3]

Hough represented Jefferson County in the [Ohio State Senate](/source/Ohio_State_Senate) 1805 to 1807,[4] and the [Ohio House of Representatives](/source/Ohio_House_of_Representatives) 1807 to 1808.[5] [Thomas Gibson](/source/Thomas_Gibson_(American_politician)) resigned as [Ohio State Auditor](/source/Ohio_State_Auditor) March 1, 1808.[6] The legislature had adjourned February 22, 1808, and would not meet again until December,[7] so [Governor](/source/Ohio_Governor) [Thomas Kirker](/source/Thomas_Kirker) appointed Hough as Auditor.

Hough was re-elected by the legislature December 18, 1809,[8] and again February 20, 1812,[9] serving until March 15, 1815.[6] He remained in the capital, [Chillicothe](/source/Chillicothe,_Ohio), after his term, and was elected again to the Ohio Senate, 1815 to 1816, from [Ross County](/source/Ross_County,_Ohio).[10] He was a [Democratic-Republican Party](/source/Democratic-Republican_Party) [Presidential elector](/source/Presidential_elector) in 1816 for [Monroe](/source/James_Monroe)/[Tompkins](/source/Daniel_D._Tompkins). [11]

Hough was married to Elizabeth Core on August 29, 1806, by Stephen Ford, justice of the Peace, in Jefferson County.[12] Hough died at Chillicothe, leaving his widow and children. He is buried at [Grandview Cemetery](/source/Grandview_Cemetery_(Chillicothe,_Ohio)).[13][14]

## Notes

1. ["Benjamin Hough"](https://web.archive.org/web/20160304050408/http://www.geni.com/people/Benjamin-Hough/6000000003701928952). *GENi.com*. Archived from [the original](http://www.geni.com/people/Benjamin-Hough/6000000003701928952) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-01-09.

1. Hunter, W.H. (1900). ["The Pathfinders of Jefferson County Supplementary to vol VI"](https://books.google.com/books?id=i0zwwjsz528C&q=Hough&pg=PA153). *[Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications](/source/Ohio_Archaeological_and_Historical_Publications)*. **VIII**: 153.

1. Hunter, W.H. (1898). ["The Pathfinders of Jefferson County"](https://books.google.com/books?id=VIQUAAAAYAAJ&q=Hough&pg=PA217). *[Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications](/source/Ohio_Archaeological_and_Historical_Publications)*. **VI**: 217.

1. [Ohio 1917](#man1917) : 217

1. [Ohio 1917](#man1917) : 255

1. Wikoff, Allen T. (1875). [*Annual report of the secretary of state to the Governor of the state of Ohio for the year 1874*](https://books.google.com/books?id=VB0fAQAAMAAJ&q=hough&pg=PA12). Columbus: Nevins & Myers, State Printers. p. 12.

1. [Taylor 1899](#taylor) : 51

1. [Taylor 1899](#taylor) : 60

1. [Taylor 1899](#taylor) : 71

1. [Ohio 1917](#man1917) : 219

1. [Taylor 1899](#taylor) : 102

1. Tope, Melancthon (1896). [*History of The Tope Family*](https://web.archive.org/web/20081226030255/http://history.tope-family.org/history18.html). p. 18. Archived from [the original](http://history.tope-family.org/history18.html) on 2008-12-26. Retrieved 2012-01-09.

1. [Jefferson County Ohio Genealogy Trails Newspaper Notices, Jefferson County, Ohio Page 62](https://archive.today/20120729083056/http://genealogytrails.com/ohio/jefferson/jeffco_news.htm)

1. [Grandview Cemetery burials](http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohross/Cemetery%20Inscrip/grandview_cemetery.htm)

## References

- Taylor, William Alexander & Taylor, Aubrey Clarence (1899). [*Ohio statesmen and annals of progress: from the year 1788 to the year 1900 ...*](https://books.google.com/books?id=ztegAAAAMAAJ&q=auditor&pg=PA71). State of Ohio.
- Ohio General Assembly (1917). [*Manual of legislative practice in the General Assembly*](https://books.google.com/books?id=7qesAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA217). State of Ohio.

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