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Line 1: − '''John Willington Grabiel''' (March 17, 1867 - April 13, 1928)<ref name=grabiel>{{cite web|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rzoz/ged/p41.htm|title=John Willington Grabiel (1867-1928)|publisher=freepages.genealogoy.roots.ancestry.com|accessdate=August 22, 2012}}</ref> was an attorney in Fayetteville, [[Arkansas]], who was the [[Republican]] gubernatorial nominee in 1922 and 1924. − − ==Background== − − − Grabiel was one of nine children born to John Grabiel (1815-1900), a farmer, and the former Sarah Downs Tharp (1834-1913) in the village of Rushsylvania, in Logan County in west central [[Ohio]].<ref name=grabiel/> His paternal grandfather, Jacob Grabiel, migrated to Ohio in 1812 from [[Pennsylvania]]. Earlier, Grabiel ancestors settled in 1635 in [[Virginia]]. The ancestor of the Virginia Grabiels had lived in [[Germany]] and was a [[Calvin]]ist refugee from [[Switzerland]]. The Grabiels were active [[Presbyterian]]s. The Tharps were a Virginia family too and were related to the Zanes, among the early pioneers of Ohio.<ref name=history>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/dallas-t-dallas-tabor-herndon/centennial-history-of-arkansas-nre/page-100-centennial-history-of-arkansas-nre.shtml|title=John W. Grabiel|publisher=ebooksread.com|accessdate=August 23, 2012}}</ref> − − Educated in the common schools and Rushsylvania High School, Grabiel completed the liberal arts course at Ohio Northern University in Ada in Hardin County, took a special course at the newly-opened Findlay College in Findlay, Ohio, and completed a law course at [[Ohio − State University]] in the capital city of [[Columbus, Ohio|Columbus]]. He was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1900 and practiced in − Bowling Green, Ohio, until 1912, when he relocated to Arkansas.<ref name=history/> − − In 1892, Grabiel married the former Laura M. Hartman (1870-1908) of Findlay, Ohio. The couple had four children, Florence R. Ellis (1895-1965), Ruth R. Grabiel (1897-1984), John Kent Grabiel (1900-1970), and Richard H. Grabiel (born 1904). In 1912, four years after Laura's death, Grabiel wed the former − Edith Houck (1881-1940) of [[Rochester]], [[New York]].<ref name=history/><ref name=grabiel/> − − − ==Civic and political affairs== − − − Active in civic affairs while practicing law in Fayetteville, Grabiel was a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He was the first president of the Fayetteville [[Chamber of Commerce]]. He spoke on behalf of the U.S. entry into what became [[World War I]].<ref name=history/> − − − In 1922 and 1924, Grabiel, a lifelong Republican,<ref name=history/> carried his party's gubernatorial banner. In the former year, he polled 28,055 votes (21.9 percent), having lost to the [[Democrat]] incumbent, Thomas Chipman McRae, who received 99,987 votes (78.1 percent).<ref>Arkansas Secretary of State, 1922 election returns</ref> − − In the [[general election]], held in October 1924, a month prior to the [[Calvin Coolidge]]/John W. Davis presidential contest, Grabiel was again defeated, this time by Democratic nominee Tom J. Terral.<ref>''The Encyclopedia of Arkansas'': Tom J. Terral</ref> The tabulation was 99,598 votes (79.8 percent) for Terral to 25,152 (20.2 percent) for Grabiel.<ref>Arkansas Secretary of State, October 1924 election returns</ref> − − Grabiel died in Fayetteville in 1928 at the age of sixty-one. His party did not win the governorship again for another thirty-eight years, with the victory of [[Winthrop Rockefeller]], a native New Yorker, over the Democrat James D. Johnson. − − ==References== − − {{reflist}} − − − {{DEFAULTSORT:Grabiel, John W.}} − − [[Category:Ohio]] − − [[Category:Arkansas]] − − [[Category:Republican Party]] − − [[Category:Lawyers]]
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