Thurman, Allen Granberry (1813-1895), was the Democratic candidate for vice president of the United States in 1888. He and President Grover Cleveland lost to Republicans Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton. Thurman served as a U.S. senator from Ohio from 1869 to 1881. He was chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court from 1854 to 1856 and served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1845 to 1847. He was born in Lynchburg, Virginia.
