Robert Lucas
This article is about the Ohio governor. For the economist, see Robert Lucas, Jr.Robert Lucas (
April 1,
1781–
February 7,
1853) was the 12th
governor of
Ohio, from
1832 to
1836. He was also the chairman of the first
Democratic national convention and the first territorial governor of
Iowa from
1838 to
1841. Lucas had attained the rank of
major general in the Ohio militia during the
War of 1812.
Lucas County, Ohio, was established and named for the governor during his second term, in defiance of the
Michigan Territory, which also claimed the land around the mouth of the
Maumee River — thus provoking the almost-bloodless
Toledo War. He was appointed as Governor of the Territory of Iowa, and served as such from 1838 to 1841.
