{{Short description|American judge (1778–1851)}} {{other people|William Creighton}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = William Creighton Jr. | honorific_suffix = | image = William Creighton Jr.png | alt = | caption = | office = Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Ohio | term_start = November 1, 1828 | term_end = March 3, 1829 | nominator = | appointer = John Quincy Adams | predecessor = Charles Willing Byrd | successor = John Wilson Campbell | state1 = Ohio | constituency1 = 6th district | term_start1 = March 4, 1829 | term_end1 = March 3, 1833 | predecessor1 = Francis Swaine Muhlenberg | successor1 = Samuel Finley Vinton | constituency2 = 6th district | term_start2 = March 4, 1827 | term_end2 = before November 1, 1828 | predecessor2 = John Thomson | successor2 = Francis Swaine Muhlenberg | constituency3 = 3rd district | term_start3 = March 4, 1813 | term_end3 = March 3, 1817 | predecessor3 = ''District established'' | successor3 = Levi Barber | order4 = 1st | office4 = Secretary of State of Ohio | term_start4 = 1803 | term_end4 = 1808 | governor4 = Edward Tiffin | predecessor4 = ''Office established'' | successor4 = Jeremiah McLene | pronunciation = | birth_name = William Creighton Jr. | birth_date = {{Birth date|1778|10|29}} | birth_place = Berkeley County, Virginia | death_date = {{Death date and age|1851|10|01|1778|10|29}} | death_place = Chillicothe, Ohio, U.S. | death_cause = | resting_place = Grand View Cemetery<br>Chillicothe, Ohio | resting_place_coordinates = | citizenship = | party = Democratic-Republican<br>National Republican | other_party = | height = | spouse = | partner = | relations = | children = | parents = | mother = | father = | relatives = | education = Dickinson College<br>read law | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | known_for = | salary = | net_worth = | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = <!--Embedded templates / Footnotes--> | footnotes = }} '''William Creighton Jr.''' (October 29, 1778 – October 1, 1851) was an American politician, state official, and judge who served as the first Ohio secretary of state, a United States representative from Ohio and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Ohio.
==Education and career==
Born on October 29, 1778, in Berkeley County, Virginia (now West Virginia),<ref name="auto">{{FJC Bio|2706|nid=1390381|name=William Creighton Jr.<!--(1778–1851)-->}}</ref> Creighton graduated from Dickinson College in 1795 and read law in 1798.<ref name="auto"/> He was admitted to the bar and entered private practice in Chillicothe, Ross County, Northwest Territory (State of Ohio from March 1, 1803) from 1798 to 1803.<ref name="auto"/> He was the 1st Secretary of State of Ohio from 1803 to 1808.<ref name="auto"/> He resumed private practice in Chillicothe from 1808 to 1809.<ref name="auto"/> He was the United States Attorney for the District of Ohio from 1809 to 1811.<ref name="auto"/> He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives in 1810.<ref name="auto1">{{CongBio|C000902|inline=yes}}</ref> He again resumed private practice in Chillicothe from 1811 to 1812.<ref name="auto"/>
==Congressional service==
Creighton was elected as a Democratic-Republican from Ohio's 3rd congressional district to the United States House of Representatives of the 13th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Representative Duncan McArthur.<ref name="auto1"/> He was reelected to the 14th United States Congress and served from May 4, 1813, to March 3, 1817.<ref name="auto1"/> He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1815 to the United States Senate from Ohio.<ref name="auto1"/> He was elected as an Adams Republican from Ohio's 6th congressional district to the United States House of Representatives of the 20th United States Congress and served from March 4, 1827, until his resignation in 1828 to accept a federal judicial position.<ref name="auto1"/> He was reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the United States House of Representatives of the 21st and 22nd United States Congresses, serving from March 4, 1829, to March 3, 1833.<ref name="auto1"/> He was not a candidate for renomination in 1832.<ref name="auto1"/> Following his first two terms in Congress, Creighton was President of the Chillicothe Branch of the Second Bank of the United States in 1817.<ref name="auto"/> In between his terms in Congress, Creighton engaged in private practice in Chillicothe from 1817 to 1827.<ref name="auto"/>
==Federal judicial service==
Creighton received a recess appointment from President John Quincy Adams on November 1, 1828, to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Ohio vacated by Judge Charles Willing Byrd.<ref name="auto"/> He was nominated to the same position by President Adams on December 11, 1828.<ref name="auto"/> His service terminated on March 3, 1829, after his nomination was not confirmed by the United States Senate, which never voted on his nomination.<ref name="auto"/> The Senate on February 16, 1829, passed a resolution that it was “not expedient to fill the vacancy at the present session of Congress.”<ref name="auto1"/>
==Later career and death==
Following the termination of his federal judicial service, Creighton resumed private practice in Chillicothe from 1833 to 1851.<ref name="auto"/> He died on October 8, 1851, in Chillicothe.<ref name="auto"/> He was interred in Grand View Cemetery in Chillicothe.<ref name="auto1"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.graveaddiction.com/grandview.html|title=Grandview Cemetery|publisher=Grandview Cemetery|access-date=July 29, 2012|archive-date=November 18, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121118055749/http://www.graveaddiction.com/grandview.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Family==
Creighton had married Elizabeth Meade in September 1805, and they had six daughters and three sons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archives.dickinson.edu/people/william-creighton-1778-1851|title=William Creighton (1778–1851) – Dickinson College|website=archives.dickinson.edu}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Sources== {{CongBio|C000902}} * {{FJC Bio|2706|nid=1390381|name=William Creighton Jr.<!--(1778–1851)-->}}
==Further reading== * A compilation of laws, treaties, resolutions, and ordinances of the general and state governments which relate to lands in the state of Ohio. Columbus: Printed by G. Nashee, state printer, 1825, 534 pgs. * History of lower Scioto Valley, Ohio. Chicago: Interstate Publishing Co., 1884, 911 pgs. * Taylor, William Alexander. Ohio statesmen and annals of progress: from the year 1788 to the year 1900. Columbus, Ohio: Press of the Westbote Co., state printers, 1899 (©1898), 458 pgs. * Gilkey, Elliot Howard The Ohio hundred year book: a hand-book of the public men and public institutions of Ohio, from the formation of the Northwest Territory (1787) to July 1, 1901. Columbus: F.J. Heer, state printer, 1901, 779 pgs. * Bennett, Henry Holcomb, The county of Ross: a history of Ross County, Ohio. Madison, Wis.: S. A. Brant, 1902, 729 pgs. * Galbreath, C. B. Ohio emblems and monuments: seals, flag, flower, buckeye, jewels, McKinley Memorial Columbus, Ohio: Board of Library Commissioners, 1907?, 28 pgs. * Utter, William T. The frontier state from 1803 to 1825. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1942, 468 pgs. * A Standard history of Ross County, Ohio. Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co. 1917, 1006 pgs. * Johnson, Ross B., West Virginia Estate Settlements, Berkeley County from 1722 to 1815, West Virginia History Vol XVII-XXIV, 1955
==External links== * {{Ohio History Central|67}} * {{Find a Grave|7565}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070819003724/http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/lib_hist/usAttorneys/ohio/OHusatt.html]
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