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John J. Gilligan | 1921-2013: Governor was a hero to ‘left out’
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| Contributor | Stephen Yellin |
| Last Edited | Stephen Yellin Aug 27, 2013 05:46am |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Aug 27, 2013 05:45am |
| Description | John J. Gilligan, Ohio’s 62nd governor, who persuaded a Republican-controlled legislature to enact the state’s first personal income tax and to create the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, died yesterday at his home in Cincinnati after a long illness. He was 92.
Blessed — or maybe cursed — with an acerbic Irish wit that sometimes got him in trouble, Gilligan was a champion for public schools and the mentally ill during his tenure from 1971 to 1975, reasserting his commitment to children nearly 25 years after leaving the governor’s office by winning a seat on the Cincinnati Board of Education.
An unapologetic liberal Democrat, Gilligan proudly accepted the designation as father of Ohio’s income tax and kept his self-effacing sense of humor even as age withered his body. He told The Dispatch in an interview two years ago that his only regret in life was that “I wasn’t born better looking.” |
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