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C. Claiborne">William C. C. Claiborne</a><br />(<a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Louisiana" title="Governor of Louisiana">Governor of Louisiana</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jean_N._Destr%C3%A9han" class="mw-redirect" title="Jean N. Destréhan">Jean N. Destréhan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/James_Brown_(Senator)" class="mw-redirect" title="James Brown (Senator)">James Brown</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">2nd <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Indiana_Territory" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Indiana Territory">Governor of Indiana Territory</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />March 3, 1813 – November 7, 1816</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Gibson_(Indiana)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Gibson (Indiana)">John Gibson</a><br />Secretary 1801-1816, as Acting Territorial Governor</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Jennings" title="Jonathan Jennings">Jonathan Jennings</a><br />(1784-1834)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />as elected first state <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Indiana" title="Governor of Indiana">Governor of Indiana</a><br />(1816-1822)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1750-07-09</span>)</span>July 9, 1750<br /><a href="/wiki/Fairfax_County,_Virginia" title="Fairfax County, Virginia">Fairfax County, Virginia</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">March 19, 1818<span style="display:none">(1818-03-19)</span> (aged 67)<br /><a href="/wiki/Shawneetown,_Illinois" title="Shawneetown, Illinois">Shawneetown, Illinois</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Democratic-Republican_Party" title="Democratic-Republican Party">Democratic-Republican</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data">Martha <a href="/wiki/Mathews_(Augusta)#Partial_list_of_members" class="mw-redirect" title="Mathews (Augusta)">Mathews</a> 1772 – 1778<br />Mary Alexander Thornton 1784 – 1818</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent</th><td class="infobox-data">John Posey</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Profession</th><td class="infobox-data">Politician, Soldier</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signature</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Signature_of_Thomas_Posey.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Thomas Posey's signature"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Signature_of_Thomas_Posey.png/128px-Signature_of_Thomas_Posey.png" decoding="async" width="128" height="73" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Signature_of_Thomas_Posey.png 1.5x" data-file-width="160" data-file-height="91" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Military service</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Branch/service</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a><br /><a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years of service</th><td class="infobox-data">1775 – 1783 (*<a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a>)<br />1793 – 1794 (<a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Colonel" class="mw-redirect" title="Lieutenant Colonel">Lieutenant Colonel</a> (Continental Army)<br /><a href="/wiki/Brigadier_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Brigadier General">Brigadier General</a> (USA)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Battles/wars</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a><br />(1775-1783) <a href="/wiki/Northwest_Indian_War" title="Northwest Indian War">Northwest Indian War</a><br />(1785-1795)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Thomas Posey</b> (July 9, 1750 – March 19, 1818) was an officer rising to the rank of <a href="/wiki/Brigadier_General_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Brigadier General (United States)">Brigadier General</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a>, under commanding General <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a> (1732-1799, commanded 1775-1784), in the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a> (1775-1783), a later commissioned <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_colonel_(United_States)" title="Lieutenant colonel (United States)">lieutenant colonel</a> during peacetime,in the regular <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a>.but involved in the <a href="/wiki/Northwest_Indian_War" title="Northwest Indian War">Northwest Indian War</a> (1785-1795). </p><p>Later served in the <a href="/wiki/Kentucky_Senate" title="Kentucky Senate">Kentucky Senate</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Kentucky_state_senator" class="mw-redirect" title="Kentucky state senator">Kentucky state senator</a> and as <a href="/w/index.php?title=Speaker_of_the_Kentucky_Senate&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Speaker of the Kentucky Senate (page does not exist)">Speaker of the Kentucky Senate</a>, the upper chamber of the <a href="/wiki/Kentucky_Legislature" class="mw-redirect" title="Kentucky Legislature">Kentucky Legislature</a> (<a href="/wiki/State_legislature" title="State legislature">state legislature</a>), meeting at the <a href="/wiki/Kentucky_State_Capitol" title="Kentucky State Capitol">Kentucky State Capitol</a> at the <a href="/wiki/State_capital" class="mw-redirect" title="State capital">state capital</a> of <a href="/wiki/Frankfort,_Kentucky" title="Frankfort, Kentucky">Frankfort</a>, then the third <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_Kentucky" title="Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky">Lieutenant Governor</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Kentucky" title="Kentucky">Commonwealth of Kentucky</a>, </p><p>Then the third Governor of the <a href="/wiki/Indiana_Territory" title="Indiana Territory">Indiana Territory</a>, 1813-1816, appointed by the fourth <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Madison" title="James Madison">James Madison</a> (1759-1836, served 1809-1817), during the last three years of the Territory's existence before admission to the federal Union as the xx <a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">state</a> of <a href="/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana">Indiana</a>. </p><p>Following as a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senator" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senator">United States Senator</a> in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">United States Senate</a> in the upper chamber of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">Congress of the United States</a>, meeting at the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Capitol" title="United States Capitol">United States Capitol</a> on <a href="/wiki/Capitol_Hill" title="Capitol Hill">Capitol Hill</a> in the federal national <a href="/wiki/Capital_city" title="Capital city">capital city</a> of <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a> (<a href="/wiki/District_of_Columbia" class="mw-redirect" title="District of Columbia">District of Columbia</a>) </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Posey&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Family_and_background">Family and background</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Posey&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Family and background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Thomas Posey was born on the banks of the <a href="/wiki/Potomac_River" title="Potomac River">Potomac River</a> on a farm adjacent to <a href="/wiki/Mount_Vernon,_Virginia" title="Mount Vernon, Virginia">Mount Vernon</a> in <a href="/wiki/Fairfax_County,_Virginia" title="Fairfax County, Virginia">Fairfax County, Virginia</a>, on July 9, 1750.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to his own account, he was "born of respectable parentage."<sup id="cite_ref-g33_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-g33-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Throughout his life Posey was dogged by rumors that he was the illegitimate son of <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a>. The rumor persisted even after his death and was the subject of several newspaper articles. </p><p>Most historians are unsure of who his parents truly were as there is little recorded of them. Posey grew up on land adjacent to Washington's <a href="/wiki/Mount_Vernon" title="Mount Vernon">Mount Vernon</a> home, in the home of John Posey. John was a close friend of George Washington, and Thomas benefited from Washington's patronage early in his life. The rumors were dismissed by Posey's biographer, John Thornton Posey.<sup id="cite_ref-g33_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-g33-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Posey received a plain English education from the neighborhood school and at 19 he moved to the Virginia frontier near <a href="/wiki/Staunton,_Virginia" title="Staunton, Virginia">Staunton, Virginia</a>, where he intended to engage in a trade or farm.<sup id="cite_ref-g33_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-g33-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He opened a business producing saddles. He soon married Martha Mathews, daughter of the deceased Joshua Mathews of the <a href="/wiki/Mathews_family" title="Mathews family">Mathews family</a>, who was then in custody of her uncle <a href="/wiki/Sampson_Mathews" title="Sampson Mathews">Sampson Mathews</a>, a prominent leader and tavern keeper in Staunton.<sup id="cite_ref-Posey_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Posey-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The couple had three sons, although only one survived to adulthood. Martha died in 1778 while giving birth to the third son. Life on the frontier was tumultuous, and the Indians' continual raiding led to a reprisal by the Virginia's Royal Governor, Lord Dunmore. In 1774 Posey was in the quartermaster's department of an armed expedition against the Indians who were threatening the frontier settlements.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was present at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Point_Pleasant" title="Battle of Point Pleasant">Battle of Point Pleasant</a>, and the expedition succeeded in suppressing the Indians for the short term.<sup id="cite_ref-g34_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-g34-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Revolutionary_War">Revolutionary War</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Posey&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Revolutionary War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Posey was elected a member of the <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a> <a href="/wiki/Committee_of_correspondence" class="mw-redirect" title="Committee of correspondence">committee of correspondence</a> in 1775.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He served in the army during the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">War of Independence</a>, first as a captain in the <a href="/wiki/Continental_Army" title="Continental Army">Continental Army</a>, mostly with the <a href="/wiki/7th_Virginia_Regiment" title="7th Virginia Regiment">7th Virginia Regiment</a>, then later rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1782. Some claimed his quick rise was due to the patronage of <a href="/wiki/George_Washington" title="George Washington">George Washington</a>. During the war Posey led campaigns against Lord Dunmore who was fortified on Gwyn's Island and drove him and his naval support out of the area. Lord Dunmore had been the officer he served under during the Indian war. In the winter of 1775 the 7th Virginia Regiment marched to join with General George Washington in <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a>. It was at this time that Washington promoted Posey to the rank of captain.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the winter of 1776, Posey commanded the pickets guarding the <a href="/wiki/Valley_Forge" title="Valley Forge">Valley Forge</a> encampment and led skirmishes almost daily. The following campaigning season, his corps was involved in the battle to drive Gen. Howe back to <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, and played a critical role in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Monmouth" title="Battle of Monmouth">Battle of Monmouth</a>. In 1778 Capt. Posey replaced <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Morgan" title="Daniel Morgan">Daniel Morgan</a> as commander of the <a href="/wiki/Provisional_Rifle_Corps" class="mw-redirect" title="Provisional Rifle Corps">Provisional Rifle Corps</a> when it was reduced to two companies. His small unit was sent to upstate <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a> to help secure that frontier flank of the Continental Army's Highland Department.<sup id="cite_ref-g34_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-g34-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was promoted to major and given command of the <a href="/wiki/7th_Virginia_Regiment" title="7th Virginia Regiment">7th Virginia Regiment</a> on December 20, 1778. </p><p>In July 1779 Posey was assigned to command a battalion of light infantry in Corps of Light Infantry commanded by Brig-Gen. <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Wayne" title="Anthony Wayne">Anthony Wayne</a>. As part of the provisional 1st Regiment under Col. <a href="/wiki/Christian_Febiger" title="Christian Febiger">Christian Febiger</a>, he led his battalion in a bayonet night assault to <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Stony_Point" title="Battle of Stony Point">storm Stony Point</a>, a key British position on the <a href="/wiki/Hudson_River" title="Hudson River">Hudson River</a> near West Point. Posey was one of the first to enter the British works and seized the colors of the <a href="/wiki/17th_Regiment_of_Foot" class="mw-redirect" title="17th Regiment of Foot">17th Regiment of Foot</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-g34_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-g34-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In his absence, the 7th Virginia regiment was ordered on December 8, 1779, to join the rest of the Virginia Line to march to <a href="/wiki/Charleston,_South_Carolina" title="Charleston, South Carolina">Charleston, South Carolina</a>, to join the Southern Army. When the Corps of Light Infantry disbanded in December, Posey was sent to join his regiment, but the army surrendered on May 12, 1780, before he could rejoin it. As one of the few uncaptured Virginia officers, Posey had few duties until exchange of captured soldiers occurred in early 1781, at which time Col. Febiger recruited him to help reconstitute the Virginia Line in a new "18-month" battalion. He became de facto commander of the battalion and served in the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Yorktown" title="Siege of Yorktown">siege of Yorktown</a>. During 1781–1782 he served with General Wayne again, this time in Georgia against the forces in Savannah. He was promoted to Lt. Col. in 1782.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-g35_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-g35-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When the war ended, Posey returned to Virginia having resigned from the army on March 10, 1783. In the same year he became an original member of the Virginia <a href="/wiki/Society_of_the_Cincinnati" title="Society of the Cincinnati">Society of the Cincinnati</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He took guardianship of his surviving son who had been living with friends since the death of his mother. Posey married Mary Alexander Thornton, the wealthy widow of George Thornton, in 1784. Posey had nine children by her. He remained married to her until his death. The family lived on her <a href="/wiki/Fredericksburg,_Virginia" title="Fredericksburg, Virginia">Fredericksburg, Virginia</a>, plantation, where Posey farmed for nearly eighteen years. He ran an unsuccessful campaign for the United States House of Representatives in 1797, and held several appointed position in the Virginia state government.<sup id="cite_ref-g35_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-g35-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Posey briefly returned to the military following several setbacks to the army which was campaigning against the <a href="/wiki/Wabash_Confederacy" title="Wabash Confederacy">Wabash Confederacy</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Old_Northwest" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Northwest">Old Northwest</a>. He reentered the army as a <a href="/wiki/Brigadier_general" title="Brigadier general">brigadier general</a> in 1793 and served with "Mad" <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Wayne" title="Anthony Wayne">Anthony Wayne</a> campaigning against the Indians beyond the frontier in the <a href="/wiki/Northwest_Indian_War" title="Northwest Indian War">Northwest Indian War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Posey was disturbed by the actions of second in command, General <a href="/wiki/James_Wilkinson" title="James Wilkinson">James Wilkinson</a>. Wilkinson had been secretly undermining Wayne's authority in reports to Washington, and Posey discovered that Wilkinson had been involved in similar plots against other ranking officers, including the former frontier commander <a href="/wiki/George_Rogers_Clark" title="George Rogers Clark">George Rogers Clark</a>. Years after Wilkinson's death, it was discovered that he had been accepting bribery money from <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a> to stir up trouble on the frontier. Because of the ill feelings caused by Wilkinson, Posey resigned from the army again on February 20, 1794, only a few months before the war was ended following American victory at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fallen_Timbers" title="Battle of Fallen Timbers">Battle of Fallen Timbers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-g36_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-g36-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Public_office">Public office</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Posey&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Public office"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kentucky_and_Louisiana">Kentucky and Louisiana</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Posey&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Kentucky and Louisiana"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1802, Posey received 7,000 acres (2,800 ha) in reward for his military service, and he was given several options of land tracts in the western United States. He chose land near <a href="/wiki/Henderson,_Kentucky" title="Henderson, Kentucky">Henderson, Kentucky</a>, and moved his family to the new estate. His prestige made him immediately popular in the area and he was elected to the <a href="/wiki/Kentucky_State_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Kentucky State Senate">Kentucky State Senate</a>, beginning a term on November 10, 1804, and became the body's speaker. In 1805 he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, serving a brief term. He was a candidate for governor in 1808, but withdrew to support <a href="/wiki/Charles_Scott_(governor)" title="Charles Scott (governor)">Charles Scott</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-g36_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-g36-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-s395_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-s395-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In preparation for possible hostilities with the French and British, in 1809 Congress authorized an army of 100,000 men to be mobilized. Kentucky was assigned the task of providing five thousand men. Posey returned to the army as a major general in command of the Kentucky militia. He oversaw an organization of the militia to ready them for the war before he resigned from in 1810.<sup id="cite_ref-s395_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-s395-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He then moved to the Attakapas region of <a href="/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a>, and was appointed by the governor to serve as a U.S. Senator from that state in 1812–1813 to fill the vacant seat of <a href="/wiki/Jean_Noel_Destr%C3%A9han" class="mw-redirect" title="Jean Noel Destréhan">Jean Noel Destréhan</a> after his resignation. In <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a>, he also assisted the Acting Secretary of War in preparing war plans.<sup id="cite_ref-g36_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-g36-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Indiana_Territory">Indiana Territory</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Posey&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Indiana Territory"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After he was defeated for re-election to his senate seat, he was appointed by President <a href="/wiki/James_Madison" title="James Madison">James Madison</a> to be Governor of <a href="/wiki/Indiana_Territory" title="Indiana Territory">Indiana Territory</a> in February 1813 where he succeeded <a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison" title="William Henry Harrison">William Henry Harrison</a> who had accepted a new position to lead the army against Indians in the <a href="/wiki/Northwest_Territory" title="Northwest Territory">Northwest Territory</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When he arrived he relieved <a href="/wiki/John_Gibson_(Indiana)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Gibson (Indiana)">John Gibson</a> of his duties as acting-governor. The Territorial General Assembly, who had been strongly opposed to the previous governor, took the absence of a strong governor to enact several pieces of legislation it had been trying to force Harrison to pass for several years, including the move of the capital. The assembly was unhappy with Posey's appointment, hoping to have instead received a northern governor who was opposed to slavery and more agreeable to the prevailing mood of the territory. He arrived in the new capital of <a href="/wiki/Corydon,_Indiana" title="Corydon, Indiana">Corydon</a> in December 1813 where he delivered a conciliatory speech to the assembly.<sup id="cite_ref-g37_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-g37-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Posey was considered to be a charitable and personally likable man in the territory. He was an active member of the <a href="/wiki/Presbyterian_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Presbyterian Church">Presbyterian Church</a> and became president of a Bible Society, who distributed free Bibles to the poor.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Posey disliked the small capitol, and because of his poor health he wanted to be closer to a physician in <a href="/wiki/Louisville,_Kentucky" title="Louisville, Kentucky">Louisville, Kentucky</a>. During the middle of the first General Assembly session, Posey moved to <a href="/wiki/Jeffersonville,_Indiana" title="Jeffersonville, Indiana">Jeffersonville</a> where he remained for the duration of his tenure, and from there conducted the office of governor. He communicated with the legislature in Corydon by courier.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The legislature was offended by his absence, which they portrayed as a continuation of the previous governor's alleged aristocratic tendencies and issued a resolution that rebuked him for leaving.<sup id="cite_ref-g37_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-g37-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Posey's most important act as governor was to reorganize the territorial courts. In 1815 Posey called a special session of the assembly to meet in Corydon to create a new territorial judiciary. The existing judiciary's authority was in question because the courts had been created at a time when no authority had been granted by Congress to create their offices. Posey presided over the assembly which ultimately divided the territory into three judicial districts and appointed several judges.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The legislature was pleased to find that Posey's appointments to public office were not overly partisan, and were happy with his approval of road construction and the framework he created for basic educational facilities. He also approved the charter for the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bank_of_Vincennes&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bank of Vincennes (page does not exist)">Bank of Vincennes</a>, the first in the territory leading to considerable economic advancement.<sup id="cite_ref-g37_19-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-g37-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite his attempts to please the territory's population, he was widely disliked by the legislature for his "inaccessibility", and his pro-slavery sentiments were at odds with that of the anti-slavery dominated territory. He was the frequent victim of speaker <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Pennington" title="Dennis Pennington">Dennis Pennington</a>'s huaranging speeches. Although statehood was approved during his term, he is considered to have had little impact on it, and instead attempted to delay it. In a speech he delivered, he claimed the territory's population was too sparse to bear the taxation that would be necessary to effectually grow the state, and instead recommended remaining a territory for a longer period to continue receiving federal financial assistance. The legislature pressed for statehood, and the territory's congressman <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Jennings" title="Jonathan Jennings">Jonathan Jennings</a> proposed federal legislation to approve statehood. When Indiana became a state in 1816, he ran unsuccessfully for Governor and was defeated by Jennings, 5,211 to 3,934 votes.<sup id="cite_ref-g37_19-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-g37-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A key election issue causing the dislike of Posey was that he was in favor of slavery in Indiana, which much of the legislature, Dennis Pennington, and Jonathan Jennings opposed.<sup id="cite_ref-g37_19-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-g37-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_life">Later life</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Posey&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Later life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the last two years of his life, he served as an <a href="/wiki/Indian_agent" title="Indian agent">Indian agent</a> in <a href="/wiki/Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a>, negotiating treaties with the <a href="/wiki/Wea" title="Wea">Wea</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kickapoo_people" title="Kickapoo people">Kickapoo</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Pottawatomie" class="mw-redirect" title="Pottawatomie">Pottawatomie</a>. He was appointed Indian Agent of Helios's in 1816.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was a candidate for Congress again in 1817, hoping to be elected to Jennings' now vacant seat in Congress, but was overwhelming defeated by <a href="/wiki/William_Hendricks" title="William Hendricks">William Hendricks</a>. He died of <a href="/wiki/Typhus" title="Typhus">Typhus</a> fever on March 19, 1818, in <a href="/wiki/Shawneetown,_Illinois" title="Shawneetown, Illinois">Shawneetown, Illinois</a>, aged 67, and was buried in the Westwood Cemetery.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Posey_County,_Indiana" title="Posey County, Indiana">Posey County, Indiana</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Posey_Township,_Franklin_County,_Indiana" title="Posey Township, Franklin County, Indiana">Posey Township, Franklin County, Indiana</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> were named in honor of Thomas Posey. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Posey&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Notes</dt></dl> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Jennings was elected first Governor of the <a href="/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana">State of Indiana</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sparks, p. 364</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-g33-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-g33_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-g33_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-g33_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Gugin, p. 33</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Posey-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Posey_4-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Posey, John Thornton. <i>General Thomas Posey: Son of the American Revolution.</i> East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 1992. 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Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana Historical Society Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-87195-196-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-87195-196-7"><bdi>0-87195-196-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Governors+of+Indiana&rft.place=Indianapolis%2C+Indiana&rft.pub=Indiana+Historical+Society+Press&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=0-87195-196-7&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fisbn_9780871951960&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThomas+Posey" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSparks,_Jared1846" class="citation book cs1">Sparks, Jared (1846). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=RBsNAAAAIAAJ"><i>The Library of American Biograph</i></a>. 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Ayer Publishing. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-405-06896-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-405-06896-4"><bdi>0-405-06896-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Biographical+and+Historical+Sketches+of+Early+Indiana&rft.pub=Ayer+Publishing&rft.date=1975&rft.isbn=0-405-06896-4&rft.au=Woollen%2C+William+Wesley&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DPCbZ8rS-84gC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThomas+Posey" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <dl><dt>Further reading</dt></dl> <ul><li>Cecere, Michael. <i>Captain Thomas Posey and the 7th Virginia Regiment.</i> Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2005. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7884-3584-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-7884-3584-1">0-7884-3584-1</a>.</li> <li>Posey, John Thornton. <i>General Thomas Posey: Son of the American Revolution.</i> East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 1992. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-87013-316-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-87013-316-0">0-87013-316-0</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Thomas_Posey&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/45px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/59px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikimedia Commons has media related to <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Thomas_Posey" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:Thomas Posey">Thomas Posey</a></span>.</div></div> </div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160729065937/http://www.indianahistory.org/our-collections/collection-guides/thomas-posey-collection-1776-1839.pdf">"Thomas Posey Collection, 1776–1839, Collection Guide"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. 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Johnston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Porter" title="Alexander Porter">Porter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexandre_Mouton" title="Alexandre Mouton">Mouton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Magill_Conrad" title="Charles Magill Conrad">Conrad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Porter" title="Alexander Porter">Porter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Johnson_(Louisiana_politician)" title="Henry Johnson (Louisiana politician)">Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Soul%C3%A9" title="Pierre Soulé">Soulé</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Slidell" title="John Slidell">Slidell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Pitt_Kellogg" title="William Pitt Kellogg">Kellogg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_B._Eustis" title="James B. Eustis">Eustis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_F._Jonas" title="Benjamin F. Jonas">Jonas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_B._Eustis" title="James B. 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Long</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Breaux" title="John Breaux">Breaux</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Vitter" title="David Vitter">Vitter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Kennedy_(Louisiana_politician)" title="John Kennedy (Louisiana politician)">Kennedy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Governors_of_Indiana" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Governors_of_Indiana" title="Template:Governors of Indiana"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Governors_of_Indiana" title="Template talk:Governors of Indiana"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Governors_of_Indiana" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Governors of Indiana"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Governors_of_Indiana" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Indiana" title="List of governors of Indiana">Governors of Indiana</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Territory" title="Indiana Territory">Territorial <span class="nobold">(1800–1816)</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison" title="William Henry Harrison">Harrison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Gibson_(American_soldier)" title="John Gibson (American soldier)">Gibson</a> (acting)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Posey</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="2" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Seal_of_the_State_of_Indiana.svg/80px-Seal_of_the_State_of_Indiana.svg.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Seal_of_the_State_of_Indiana.svg/120px-Seal_of_the_State_of_Indiana.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Seal_of_the_State_of_Indiana.svg/160px-Seal_of_the_State_of_Indiana.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="725" data-file-height="725" /></span></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana">State <span class="nobold">(since 1816)</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Jennings" title="Jonathan Jennings">Jennings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ratliff_Boon" title="Ratliff Boon">Boon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Hendricks" title="William Hendricks">W. 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Morton">Morton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conrad_Baker" title="Conrad Baker">Baker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_A._Hendricks" title="Thomas A. Hendricks">T. Hendricks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_D._Williams" title="James D. Williams">Williams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_P._Gray" title="Isaac P. Gray">Gray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_G._Porter" title="Albert G. Porter">Porter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_P._Gray" title="Isaac P. Gray">Gray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alvin_Peterson_Hovey" title="Alvin Peterson Hovey">Hovey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ira_Joy_Chase" title="Ira Joy Chase">Chase</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claude_Matthews" title="Claude Matthews">Matthews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_A._Mount" title="James A. Mount">Mount</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winfield_T._Durbin" title="Winfield T. Durbin">Durbin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Hanly" title="Frank Hanly">Hanly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_R._Marshall" title="Thomas R. Marshall">Marshall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_M._Ralston" title="Samuel M. Ralston">Ralston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_P._Goodrich" title="James P. Goodrich">Goodrich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warren_T._McCray" title="Warren T. McCray">McCray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emmett_Forest_Branch" title="Emmett Forest Branch">Branch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_L._Jackson" title="Edward L. Jackson">Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_G._Leslie" title="Harry G. Leslie">Leslie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_V._McNutt" title="Paul V. McNutt">McNutt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M._Clifford_Townsend" title="M. Clifford Townsend">Townsend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_F._Schricker" title="Henry F. Schricker">Schricker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_F._Gates" title="Ralph F. Gates">Gates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_F._Schricker" title="Henry F. Schricker">Schricker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_N._Craig" title="George N. Craig">Craig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_W._Handley" title="Harold W. Handley">Handley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_E._Welsh" title="Matthew E. Welsh">Welsh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_D._Branigin" title="Roger D. Branigin">Branigin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Whitcomb" title="Edgar Whitcomb">E. Whitcomb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Otis_Bowen" title="Otis Bowen">Bowen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_D._Orr" title="Robert D. Orr">Orr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evan_Bayh" title="Evan Bayh">Bayh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_O%27Bannon" title="Frank O'Bannon">O'Bannon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Kernan_(politician)" title="Joe Kernan (politician)">Kernan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitch_Daniels" title="Mitch Daniels">Daniels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Pence" title="Mike Pence">Pence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eric_Holcomb" title="Eric Holcomb">Holcomb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Braun" title="Mike Braun">Braun</a> (elect)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Indiana" title="Governor of Indiana">Governor of Indiana</a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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title="Special:EditPage/Template:Indiana history"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="History_of_Indiana" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/History_of_Indiana" title="History of Indiana">History of</a> <a href="/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana">Indiana</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/History_of_Indiana#Early_civilizations" title="History of Indiana">Early history</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Clovis_culture" title="Clovis culture">Clovis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adena_culture" title="Adena culture">Adena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hopewell_tradition" title="Hopewell tradition">Hopewell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mississippian_culture" title="Mississippian culture">Mississippian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beaver_Wars" title="Beaver Wars">Beaver Wars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Indiana#European_contact" title="History of Indiana">European contact</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/La_Salle_Expeditions" class="mw-redirect" title="La Salle Expeditions">La Salle Expeditions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Indiana#France" title="History of Indiana">French Rule</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="8" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Flag_of_Indiana.svg/100px-Flag_of_Indiana.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="67" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Flag_of_Indiana.svg/150px-Flag_of_Indiana.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Flag_of_Indiana.svg/200px-Flag_of_Indiana.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></span></span><br /><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Indiana_Counties.jpg/100px-Indiana_Counties.jpg" decoding="async" width="100" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Indiana_Counties.jpg/150px-Indiana_Counties.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Indiana_Counties.jpg/200px-Indiana_Counties.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4579" data-file-height="6401" /></span></span><br /><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Seal_of_the_State_of_Indiana.svg/100px-Seal_of_the_State_of_Indiana.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Seal_of_the_State_of_Indiana.svg/150px-Seal_of_the_State_of_Indiana.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Seal_of_the_State_of_Indiana.svg/200px-Seal_of_the_State_of_Indiana.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="725" data-file-height="725" /></span></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/History_of_Indiana#Colonial_period" title="History of Indiana">1700–1799</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vincennes,_Indiana#History" title="Vincennes, Indiana">Vincennes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Miami_(Indiana)" title="Fort Miami (Indiana)">Fort Miamis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ouiatenon" title="Ouiatenon">Ouiatenon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Indiana#France" title="History of Indiana">French and Indian War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Indiana#Great_Britain" title="History of Indiana">British Rule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pontiac%27s_War" title="Pontiac's War">Pontiac's War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Indiana_in_the_American_Revolution" title="Category:Indiana in the American Revolution">American Revolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Rogers_Clark" title="George Rogers Clark">George Rogers Clark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Illinois_campaign" title="Illinois campaign">Illinois campaign</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clark%27s_Grant" title="Clark's Grant">Clark's Grant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northwest_Territory" title="Northwest Territory">Northwest Territory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wabash_Confederacy" title="Wabash Confederacy">Wabash Confederacy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northwest_Indian_War" title="Northwest Indian War">Northwest Indian War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petit_Fort" title="Petit Fort">Petit Fort</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/History_of_Indiana#Indiana_Territory" title="History of Indiana">1800–1816</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Territory" title="Indiana Territory">Indiana Territory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Trace_(road)" class="mw-redirect" title="Buffalo Trace (road)">Buffalo Trace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Vincennes" title="Treaty of Vincennes">Treaty of Vincennes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Appleseed" title="Johnny Appleseed">Johnny Appleseed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Grouseland" title="Treaty of Grouseland">Treaty of Grouseland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Rangers" title="Indiana Rangers">Indiana Rangers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tecumseh%27s_War" title="Tecumseh's War">Tecumseh's War</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tippecanoe" title="Battle of Tippecanoe">Battle of Tippecanoe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indiana_in_the_War_of_1812" title="Indiana in the War of 1812">War of 1812</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Indiana#Indiana_Territory" title="History of slavery in Indiana">Abolitionist movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Harmony,_Indiana#History" title="New Harmony, Indiana">Harmony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Canal_Company" title="Indiana Canal Company">1st Indiana Canal Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Indiana#Constitutional_Convention" title="Constitution of Indiana">Constitutional Convention</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/History_of_Indiana#Statehood" title="History of Indiana">1817–1899</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Indiana#Statehood" title="History of Indiana">Statehood</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Polly_v._Lasselle" class="mw-redirect" title="Polly v. Lasselle">Polly v. Lasselle</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mary_Bateman_Clark#Court_cases" title="Mary Bateman Clark">Mary Clark v. G.W. Johnston</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_St._Mary%27s_(1818)" title="Treaty of St. Mary's (1818)">Treaty of St. Mary's</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_removals_in_Indiana" title="Indian removals in Indiana">Indian Removals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_Creek_massacre" title="Fall Creek massacre">Fall Creek massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bank_of_Indiana" title="Bank of Indiana">Bank of Indiana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Canal_Company" title="Indiana Canal Company">2nd Indiana Canal Company</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitewater_Canal" title="Whitewater Canal">Whitewater Canal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wabash_and_Erie_Canal" title="Wabash and Erie Canal">Wabash and Erie Canal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Mammoth_Internal_Improvement_Act" title="Indiana Mammoth Internal Improvement Act">Public Works and Bankruptcy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Underground_Railroad_in_Indiana" title="Underground Railroad in Indiana">Underground Railroad</a></li> <li><a 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from Indiana">People</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_Indiana" title="Political party strength in Indiana">Historical political strength</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Native_Americans_in_Indiana" title="Category:Native Americans in Indiana">Native Americans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Indiana" title="History of slavery in Indiana">Slavery</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Indiana" class="mw-redirect" title="List of cities in Indiana">By city and locale</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Evansville,_Indiana#History" title="Evansville, Indiana">Evansville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Wayne,_Indiana#History" title="Fort Wayne, Indiana">Fort Wayne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary,_Indiana#History" title="Gary, Indiana">Gary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Hartford_City,_Indiana" title="History of Hartford City, Indiana">Hartford City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Indianapolis" title="History of Indianapolis">Indianapolis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lafayette,_Indiana#History" title="Lafayette, Indiana">Lafayette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_Lake_Wawasee" title="History of Lake Wawasee">Lake Wawasee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Bend,_Indiana#History" title="South Bend, Indiana">South Bend</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terre_Haute,_Indiana#History" title="Terre Haute, Indiana">Terre Haute</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div><i>See also: <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_United_States" title="History of the United States">History of the United States</a>, <a href="/wiki/Midwestern_United_States#History" title="Midwestern United States">History of the Midwestern United States</a> and <a href="/wiki/Portal:Indiana" 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