Robert Lucas (1 April 1781-7 February 1853) was the Democratic Governor of Ohio from 7 December 1832 to 12 December 1836 (succeeding Duncan McArthur and preceding Joseph Vance) and Governor of the Iowa Territory from 15 August 1838 to 13 May 1841 (succeeding Henry Atkinson and preceding John Chambers).
Biography[]
Robert Lucas was born in Shepherdstown, West Virginia in 1781, and he moved to the Scioto Valley of Ohio at the age of 19, founding the settlement of Lucasville. He became a captain in the US Army in 1807 after serving as an Army recruiter, and he oversaw the court-martial trial of General William Hull at the start of the War of 1812. Lucas served in the State House in 1808, in the State Senate from 1814 to 1822 and from 1824 to 1828, as a Democratic presidential elector in 1828, as Governor of Ohio from 1832 to 1836, and as Governor of the Iowa Territory from 1838 to 1841. Lucas was an ardent Democrat, and he oversaw the Toledo War with Michigan as Governor of Michigan and the Honey War with Missouri as Governor of Iowa. He died in Iowa City in 1853.