William Vance Marquis was an American

United States

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 politician who served as the 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Ohio

Lieutenant Governor of Ohio

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 from 1890 to 1892.

Marquis was born at Mt. Vernon, Ohio May 1, 1828. He was moved to Bellefontaine, Ohio

Bellefontaine, Ohio

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 at age five. He was in merchandising. He worked at his father's store until it closed in 1848. He was named postmaster of Bellefontaine in 1853 by President Pierce

Franklin Pierce

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, serving until 1861. 1862-1870 he was in partnership as a hardware merchant, and continued alone after that. Along with William Lawrence, he organized the Bellefontaine National Bank in 1871.

Marquis was a delegate to the 1876 Democratic National Convention, (St. Louis)

1876 Democratic National Convention

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. He was nominated in 1878 for the 4th

Ohio's 4th congressional district

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 Congressional District, but lost to J. Warren Keifer

J. Warren Keifer

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. In the 1889 election for Lieutenant Governor, Republican Elbert L. Lampson

Elbert L. Lampson

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 defeated Democrat Marquis by a margin of 375,090 to 375, 068. Lampson was unseated after serving eighteen days, when the Democratic Ohio State Senate seated Marquis in his place.

On November 12, 1860, Marquis was married to Annie M. Sterritt, of Logan County, Ohio

Logan County, Ohio

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, who died August, 1868.