Biographies

John C. Calhoun was a staunch defender of slavery, states' rights, and nullification. He served the nation as a Congressional Representative and Senator from South Carolina, U.S. Secretary of War and Secretary of State, and Vice President of the United States during the Antebellum Era.

A career United States Army officer, Major General Edward R. Canby commanded the victorious Union troops during the Battle of Fort Blakely, which is often cited as the last major infantry engagement east of the Mississippi River during the American Civil War.

John Carlyle was a prominent Virginia merchant and member of the Ohio Company.

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was a Union military commander during the American Civil War, earning a Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroics at the Battle of Gettysburg. He also served as Governor of Maine and as a professor and a president of Bowdoin College.

Salmon Portland Chase was the twenty-third Governor of Ohio, a U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury during the Civil War, and the sixth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Samuel Chase is a Founding Father who was a delegate from Maryland to the First Continental Congress and signed the Articles of Association, which set up the Continental Association. He was also elected to the Second Continental Congress, signed the Olive Branch Petition, and signed the Declaration of Independence. Chase is also the only Supreme Court Justice impeached by the House of Representatives.

John Chivington, known as the "Fighting Parson," was an ordained Methodist minister and Union officer, who was acclaimed for his performance at the Battle of Glorieta Pass but condemned for his role in the Sand Creek Massacre.

Charles Clark was a brigadier general in the Confederate Army and governor of Mississippi during the American Civil War.

Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne was one of the Confederacy's leading general officers in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. Toward the end of the war, he proposed a plan to enlist slaves in the Confederate Army.

Also known as Johnny Shiloh and the Drummer Boy of Chickamauga, Johnny Clem was one of the youngest Union soldiers to fight during the American Civil War, and he was the last Civil War veteran still on active duty in the army when he retired from the military in 1915.

The 22nd and 24th U.S. President, Grover Cleveland is the only chief executive to serve two nonconsecutive terms in the White House.

James Clinton served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and rose to the rank of Major General.

General Thomas Conway was an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He is most famous for his criticism of General George Washington.

Long-time Ohio politician Thomas Corwin sponsored the Corwin Amendment in the U.S, House of Representatives in 1861 as an eleventh-hour attempt to avert the American Civil War.

Darius N. Couch was a prominent Union general during the American Civil War, who served as a corps commander with the Army of the Potomac in the Eastern Theater and as a division commander with the 23rd Army Corps in the Western Theater.

Jacob D. Cox was a nineteenth-century American political and military leader who served as a brigadier general in the U.S. volunteer army during the American Civil War.

Samuel Cox was a prominent lawyer, newspaper editor, and Peace Democrat who represented Ohio and, later, New York in Congress.

Samuel W. Crawford was a prominent Union General during the Civil War. Wylie is possibly the only person who was present for the beginning of the war at Fort Sumter and for the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House four years later.

The firstborn child of U.S. Senator John J. Crittenden, and the brother of Union Major General Robert Crittenden, George B. Crittenden was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army and a major general in the Provisional Confederate Army whose struggles with alcoholism led to his fall from grace during the Civil War.

George Crook was a noted officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War and the Indian Wars in the American West during the last half of the nineteenth century.