Timothy Crane Day | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's first district | |
In office March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857 | |
Preceded by | David T. Disney |
Succeeded by | George H. Pendleton |
Personal details | |
Born | Cincinnati, Ohio, US | January 8, 1819
Died | April 15, 1869 Cincinnati, Ohio, US | (aged 50)
Resting place | Spring Grove Cemetery |
Political party | Opposition |
Timothy Crane Day (January 8, 1819 – April 15, 1869) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Day attended the public schools. Day worked as a printer and engraver from 1838 to 1840. When his older brother died in 1850, he took his job as one of the editors and proprietors of the Cincinnati Enquirer.[1] Disposed of his interests in that paper in 1852 and made a tour of Europe.
Day was elected as an Opposition Party candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857). Day Ran as an Anti-Nebraska, or anti-slavery, candidate.[2] He declined renomination in 1856 because of ill health and retired from active business. Day endowed the Ohio Mechanics Institute toward establishing a permanent library.[1] When this library closed, the bequeath was transferred to the University of Cincinnati's College of Applied Science in 1911 and bears his name as the Timothy C. Day Technical Library.[3] He died in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 15, 1869. He was interred in Spring Grove Cemetery.