John D. Defrees

So complete a system of government never before existed, and it became the admiration of the lovers of liberty throughout the world. The prayers of its founders, as they passed from earth, were for its perpetuity. It was received by their children and cherished as an inheritance above all price. With them the man who dared to lisp of its destruction was branded as a traitor and an enemy of mankind.

—John D. Defrees, 1864
John D. Defrees
Born1810 (1810)
Sparta, Tennessee
Died1882 (aged 71–72)
Resting placeCrown Hill Cemetery and Arboretum, Section 6, Lot 1
39°49′13″N 86°10′30″W / 39.8203612°N 86.1751056°W / 39.8203612; -86.1751056
OccupationsPolitician and Newspaper Publisher
TitleGovernor of Ohio Indiana State Senator
Political partyWhig until party dissolved
Other political
affiliations		Republican

John Dougherty Defrees (1810–1882) was an American newspaperman and politician.

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