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Obituaries
Bishop, Richard Moore, merchant, born in Fleming County, Ky., Nov. 4, 1812; died in Jacksonville, Fla., March 2, 1893. He was educated for mercantile business; followed it for several years in his native State, and since 1848 had been established in Cincinnati. In 1859 he was elected Mayor of Cincinnati, and in 1877 Governor of Ohio, both times as a Democrat. As mayor he received and entertained with much pomp the Prince of Wales and his suite, and enforced the Sunday ordinances with greater vigor than any of his predecessors. He was a promoter of important state and municipal enterprises ; succeeded Alexander Campbell as President of the General Christian Missionary Convention ; and was President of the great National Commercial Convention in Baltimore m 1871.
Source: American annual cyclopaedia and register of important events, Volume 33, 1893 [Robyn Greenlund; May 2010]
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