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Ohio committee holds first hearing on bill to designate John Rankin Day, commission statue
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Sponsors told the House Government Oversight Committee that House Bill 53 would designate Feb. 4 as John Rankin Day and commission a statue of the 19th‑century abolitionist for Statehouse grounds; sponsors said statue costs would be raised privately and site work would be handled through the Capitol Square process.
Representative Pizzoli, sponsor of House Bill 53, told the House Government Oversight Committee that the bill would designate Feb. 4 as John Rankin Day and commission a statue of the Reverend John Rankin on Statehouse grounds.
Pizzoli said Rankin, a Presbyterian minister who settled in Ripley, Ohio, in 1822, “was one of Ohio’s first and most active conductors on the Underground Railroad” and that “it is estimated that over 2,000 fugitive slaves found refuge in the Rankin household.” The…
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