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American politician
Francis Bates Pond
12th Ohio Attorney General
In office
January 1870 – January 1874
GovernorRutherford B. Hayes
Edward F. Noyes
Preceded byWilliam H. West
Succeeded byJohn Little
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives
from the Morgan County district
In office
January 6, 1868 – January 2, 1870
Preceded byThomas I. Williams
Succeeded byRichard Stanton
Member of the Ohio Senate
from the 14th district
In office
January 5, 1880 – November 2, 1883
Preceded byJohn Irvine
Succeeded byGilbert Smith
Personal details
Born(1825-08-09)August 9, 1825
Ellisburg, New York, US
DiedNovember 2, 1883(1883-11-02) (aged 58)
Malta, Ohio, US
Resting placeMalta Cemetery
Political partyRepublican
Spouses
  • Eliza A Corner
  • Emma Corner
  • Janet Alecander
Childrenthree
Alma materOberlin College
Signature
Military service
AllegianceUnited States
Branch/serviceUnion Army
Years of service1861–1864
RankColonel
Unit62nd Ohio Infantry

Francis Bates Pond was a Republican politician from the state of Ohio. He was Ohio Attorney General from 1870 to 1874.

Pond was born August 9, 1825, at Ellisburg, Jefferson County, New York. He entered Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1841, and graduated with honors in 1846. He spent the next three years in Kent, Ohio, one year as a teacher and two as a book-keeper for Charles and Marvin Kent. In 1850 he went to Harmar, Ohio and taught classics at the Harmar Academy. He began study of law in 1849 in Cleveland, and continued in Marietta in 1850. He was admitted to the bar 1852 at Malta, Ohio, and three years later elected Prosecuting Attorney of Morgan County, Ohio. During the Civil War, he served as a colonel with the Sixty-second Ohio Infantry, and August, 1864, at the Battle of Deep River, he was wounded, and lost sight in his left eye. He resigned in November of that year.

In 1867, he was elected to represent Morgan County in the Ohio House of Representatives for the Fifty-eighth General Assembly. In 1869 and 1871 he won election as Ohio Attorney General. In 1879 he was elected to the Ohio Senate from the Fourteenth district (Washington, Morgan and part of Noble County), for the Sixty-fourth General Assembly, and re-elected to the Sixty-fifth in 1881.

He died November 2, 1883, at his home in Malta, Ohio. He died as a result of the wound he received near his eye in the Civil War which he had suffered with for nineteen years.

Pond was married to Eliza A. Corner of Malta in 1854. She died on January 13, 1866. On May 21, 1867, he married his first wife's sister, Emma. She died March 18, 1870. He married Janet Alexander of Washington County, Pennsylvania in 1876. His first wife had children named Mary Blanche and George Charles. His second wife had a son named Francis Newell, who died in infancy.

Notes

  1. ^ Robertson 1886 : 259-261
  2. ^ Smith 1898 : 270
  3. Ohio 1917 : 289
  4. 1869: Pond 235,285 Democrat John M. Connell 227,903 from Smith 1898 : 268
  5. 1871: Pond 237,718 Democrat Edward S. Wallace 218,077 from Smith 1898 : 286
  6. Ohio 1917 : 244,247

References

Offices and distinctions
Political offices
Preceded byWilliam H. West Ohio Attorney General
January 10, 1870-January 12, 1874 		Succeeded byJohn Little
Ohio House of Representatives
Preceded byThomas L. Williams Representative from Morgan County
January 6, 1868-January 2, 1870 		Succeeded byRichard Stanton
Ohio Senate
Preceded byJohn Irvine Senator from 14th District
January 5, 1880-November 2, 1883 		Succeeded byGilbert Smith
Ohio attorneys general
  1. Stanbery
  2. McCormick
  3. Pugh
  4. McCook
  5. Kimball
  6. Wolcott
  7. Murray
  8. Critchfield
  9. Richardson
  10. Olds
  11. West
  12. Pond
  13. Little
  14. Pillars
  15. Nash
  16. Hollingsworth
  17. Lawrence
  18. Kohler
  19. Watson
  20. Richards
  21. Monnette
  22. Sheets
  23. Ellis
  24. Denman
  25. Hogan
  26. Turner
  27. McGhee
  28. Price
  29. Crabbe
  30. Turner
  31. Bettman
  32. Bricker
  33. Duffy
  34. Herbert
  35. Jenkins
  36. Duffy
  37. O'Neill
  38. Saxbe
  39. McElroy
  40. Saxbe
  41. Brown, P.
  42. Brown, W.
  43. Celebrezze
  44. Fisher
  45. Montgomery
  46. Petro
  47. Dann
  48. Rogers
  49. Cordray
  50. DeWine
  51. Yost
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