Daniel Symmes
{{Short description|American judge}}
{{infobox officeholder
|name=Daniel Symmes
|image=
|office=Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
|term_start=February 7, 1805
|term_end=January 9, 1808
|preceded=Return J. Meigs, Jr.
|succeeded=William Sprigg
|birth_date=1772
|death_date=May 10, 1817
|birth_place=Sussex County, New Jersey
|death_place=Cincinnati, Ohio
|alma_mater=Princeton University
|spouse=Elizabeth Oliver
}}
Daniel Symmes (1772 – May 10, 1817){{cite web |url=http://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/SCO/formerjustices/bios/symmes.asp |publisher=The Supreme Court of Ohio and The Ohio Judicial System|access-date=2012-11-10 |title=Daniel Symmes}} was a politician in the U.S. State of Ohio in the Ohio State Senate, an Ohio Supreme Court Judge 1805–1808, Mayor of Cincinnati 1808–1809, and register of the Cincinnati land office.
Daniel Symmes was born at Sussex County, New Jersey. He was a nephew of the pioneer land speculator of southwest Ohio John Cleves Symmes. He was educated at Princeton College, and came west with his family, among the first settlers in the Miami Purchase.{{sfn|Reed, Randall & Greve|p=12}}
In 1794, he was appointed Hamilton County Sheriff by Territorial Governor Arthur St. Clair. Symmes married Elizabeth Oliver on April 10, 1796, in North Bend, Ohio. Symmes practiced law in Cincinnati, and, in June 1803, he was elected to the first Board of Directors of the first bank established in the State of Ohio, the Miami Exporting Company of Cincinnati.{{sfn|Randall & Ryan|p=490}} In 1803 he was appointed Prosecuting Attorney for several counties.
Just after statehood, Symmes was elected to represent Hamilton County in the Ohio Senate for the first through third General Assemblies, 1803–1805.{{sfn|Ohio 1917|p=217}} In 1805 the Ohio Legislature appointed him a judge of the Ohio Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy created when Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr. resigned.{{sfn|Reed, Randall & Greve|p=12}}
In 1808–1809, Symmes served as President of the Cincinnati Council, (equivalent to Mayor).{{sfn|Greve|p=438}}{{sfn|Goss|p=96}}
Symmes was appointed register of the Cincinnati Land Office by President Jefferson, resigning from the court, and served for seven years.
Symmes died May 10, 1817, in Cincinnati. His wife remarried, to Thomas Graham, September 29, 1819.
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References
- {{cite book |ref={{sfnRef|Reed, Randall & Greve}}|title=Bench and Bar of Ohio: a Compendium of History and Biography |editor1-first=George Irving |editor1-last=Reed |editor2-first=Emilius Oviatt |editor2-last=Randall |editor3-first=Charles Theodore |editor3-last=Greve |volume=1 |year=1897 |publisher=Century Publishing and Engraving Company |location=Chicago |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4gQ9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA12}}
- {{cite book|title=History of Ohio: the Rise and Progress of an American State |volume=4 |first1=Emilius |last1=Randall |first2=Daniel Joseph |last2=Ryan |author-link2=Daniel J. Ryan|publisher=The Century History Company |location=New York |year=1912 |ref={{sfnRef|Randall & Ryan}} |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ylAYN52C4m4C&pg=PA490}}
- {{cite book|title=Manual of legislative practice in the General Assembly |last=Ohio General Assembly |author-link=Ohio General Assembly |year=1917 |ref={{sfnRef|Ohio 1917}}|publisher=State of Ohio |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7qesAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA217}}
- {{cite book |title=Centennial history of Cincinnati and representative citizens |volume=1 |first=Charles Theodore |last=Greve |publisher=Biographical Publishing Company |ref={{sfnRef|Greve}}|location=Chicago |year=1904 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eJxABLtxX60C&pg=PA438}}
- {{cite book |title=Cincinnati, the Queen City, 1788–1912 |volume=1 |first=Charles Frederic |last=Goss |author-link=Charles Frederic Goss|publisher=S J Clarke Publishing Company |location=Cincinnati |year=1912 |ref={{sfnRef|Goss}}|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PmHRK2hV2vQC&pg=PA96}}
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{{s-bef | before=Martin Baum}}
{{s-ttl | title=Mayor of Cincinnati | years=1808–1809}}
{{s-aft | after=James Findlay}}
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{{s-bef | before=Return J. Meigs, Jr.}}
{{s-ttl | title=Ohio Supreme Court Judges | years=1805–1808}}
{{s-aft | after=William Sprigg}}
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{{s-ttl |title=Senator from Hamilton County |alongside=Jeremiah Morrow, John Paul, Francis Dunlavy
John Bigger, William Ward, William C. Schenck
Cornelius Sneider| years=1803–1805}}
{{s-aft | after=Stephen Wood
Cornelius Sneider}}
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Category:Princeton University alumni
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