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Piqua’s McCulloch named “Great Ohioan”
The late William Moore McCulloch of Piqua - former Ohio House Speaker, U.S. House member and civil rights champion - has been named a “Great Ohioan.”
The Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board and the Capitol Square Foundation Wednesday announced the selection of McCulloch and three others.
The others were: Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War general and president; William Howard Taft, president and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice and Harriet Taylor Upton, women’s rights advocate and author.
McCulloch, a Republican, died in 1980 at 78. He played a key role in enacting landmark legislation including the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the 1968 Fair Housing Act.
“We are especially pleased to honor these four individuals as we commemorate the 150th anniversary of the beginnings of the American Civil War and the completion of the Ohio Statehouse,” former Ohio Senate President Richard Finan, chairman of the Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board, said in a press release.
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January 26, 2011 10:44 AM | Link to this
It is sad to think that the area in which I live was once represented in Congress by William McCulloch, but in recent years voters have sent the likes of Buzz Lukens and the Orangeman to Washington. It’s enough to make a preacher cuss!