Thomas Corwin Quotes
Never make people laugh. If you would succeed in life, you must be solemn, solemn as an ass. All great monuments are built over solemn asses.
Thomas Corwin, 1794-1865, Governor of Ohio (Whig), U. S. Congressman & U.S. Senator (Whig & Republican, OH), Secretary of the Treasury, U. S. Minister to Mexico, Advice to freshman Congressman (later President) James Garfield, 1864
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Thomas Corwin, also known as Tom Corwin, The Wagon Boy, and Black Tom was a politician from the state of Ohio. He represented Ohio in both houses of Congress and served as the 15th Governor of Ohio and the 20th Secretary of the Treasury. After affiliating with the Whig Party, he joined the Republican Party in the 1850s. Corwin is best known for his sponsorship of the proposed Corwin Amendment, which was presented in an unsuccessful attempt to avoid the oncoming American Civil War.