Thomas Worthington (16 July 1773 – 20 June 1827) was a US Senator from Ohio from 1 April 1803 to 4 March 1807 (preceding Edward Tiffin) and from 15 December 1810 to 1 December 1814 (succeeding Return J. Meigs, Jr. and preceding Joseph Kerr), as well as Governor of Ohio from 8 December 1814 to 14 December 1818 (succeeding Othniel Looker and preceding Ethan Allen Brown). He was a Democratic-Republican.
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Thomas Worthington was born in Charles Town, Virginia (now in West Virginia) in 1773, and he moved to Ross County, Ohio in 1796. He built a home just outside Chillicothe, and he served in the Territorial House of Representatives from 1799 to 1803. Worthington served in the US Senate from 1803 to 1807 and from 1810 to 1814, when he resigned in order to serve as Governor of Ohio from 1814 to 1818. He died in 1827.