Samuel Huntington (4 October 1765-8 June 1817) was the Democratic-Republican Governor of Ohio from 12 December 1808 to 8 December 1810, succeeding Thomas Kirker and preceding Return J. Meigs Jr..
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Samuel Huntington was born in Coventry, Connecticut in 1765, the nephew and adoptive son of Samuel Huntington. He graduated from Yale in 1785 and became a lawyer before moving to Cleveland, Ohio in 1801. He served as an Ohio Supreme Court judge from 1803 to 1808, as Governor from 1808 to 1810, and in the State House from 1811 to 1812, and he died in 1817.