Samuel H. Huntington

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Samuel H. Huntington (October 4, 1765 - June 8, 1817) was an American jurist who was Governor of Ohio from 1808-1810.

He was the nephew and adopted son of Samuel Huntington, the first President of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation. A 1785 graduate of Yale College. He was admitted to the bar and began practicing law in Connecticut. He moved to Ohio in 1801, moving with his wife and small sons to the tiny village of Cleveland. After serving as a delegate to the State's first constitutional convention, Huntington was selected to the State Supreme Court as an Associate Justice and succeeded Return J. Meigs, Jr. as Chief Justice a year later. He served until being elected in 1808. His tenure was stormy, with much controversy over the impeachment of two judges for upholding the principle of judicial review (Huntington would have been impeached as well had it not been being elected governor), the move of the state capital from Zanesville to Chillicothe, and the Tiffin Resolution, which terminated the terms of all sitting judges. Huntington did not stand for re-election, but instead ran for the U.S. Senate, losing to Thomas Worthington.