Jim Rhodes

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James Allen Rhodes (September 13, 1909 – March 4, 2001) was an American politician who served as the 61st and 63rd governor of Ohio from 1963 to 1971 and again from 1975 to 1983. A member of the Republican Party, he was the Ohio state auditor from 1953 to 1963 and the mayor of Columbus, Ohio, from 1944 to 1952. Rhodes was one of only seven U.S. governors to serve four four-year terms in office and is tied for the sixth-longest gubernatorial tenure in post-Constitutional U.S. history at 5,840 days. Rhodes's tenure as governor had an emphasis on developing infrastructure and higher education in Ohio. In 1970, Rhodes sent Ohio Army National Guard troops on to the Kent State University campus at the request of Mayor LeRoy Satrom, resulting in the Kent State shootings where guardsmen killed four students and wounded nine others. His administrations also increased international trade initiatives, particularly in China–United States relations during the late 1970s.