
Duncan McArthur (1772-29 April 1839) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-OH 6) from 4 March 1823 to 3 March 1825 (succeeding John Sloane and preceding John Thomson) and the National Republican Governor of Ohio from 18 December 1830 to 7 December 1832 (succeeding Allen Trimble and preceding Robert Lucas).
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Duncan McArthur was born in Dutchess County, New York in 1772, the son of Scottish immigrants, and he was raised in western Pennsylvania and Kentucky. He worked as an Indian ranger and served in the Northwest Indian War before laying out the town of Chillicothe, Ohio in 1796 and becoming a wealthy land speculator in the Northwest Territory. He served as a colonel of the Ohio militia during the War of 1812, rising to the rank of Brigadier-General in the US Army. After the war, McArthur served in the US House of Representatives from 1823 to 1825 and as Governor from 1830 to 1832. He died in 1839.