Allen Trimble (24 November 1783-3 February 1870) was the Democratic-Republican Governor of Ohio from 4 January to 28 December 1822 (succeeding Ethan Allen Brown and preceding Jeremiah Morrow) and its National Republican Governor from 19 December 1826 to 18 December 1830 (succeeding Morrow and preceding Duncan McArthur).
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Allen Trimble was born in Augusta County, Virginia in 1783, and he was raised in Fayette County, Kentucky and Hillsboro, Ohio. He became involved in local politics before serving in the War of 1812, after which he served in the State House from 1816 to 1818, in the State Senate from 1818 to 1826, and as Governor in 1822 and from 1826 to 1830. He was the unsuccessful Know Nothing candidate for governor in 1855 and served as a delegate to the Constitutional Union Party national convention in 1860, and he died in 1870. He was the father of Eliza Thompson, a noted temperance activist.