Talk:Jim Rhodes

What he ordered for Kent State should be included in his bio
, not just what he said beforehand. It makes it seem like he was just a commentator. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.46.19.84 (talk) 00:33, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Cecil Rhodes
Is Jim Rhodes descendant of Cecil Rhodes? In the first part of the article it says that his family was part of the mine industry; so was Cecil Rhodes. What is their connection? Sorry for my english.

No, James Allen Rhodes was not a descendant of Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902). His parents, James Allen Rhodes Sr (1880-1918?) and Susan Anne Howe (1884-????), were not observably of Welsh descent either, although many residents of Coalton and Jackson County were. J A Rhodes Sr was the son of Ellison Andrew Rhodes (1857-1946), an indigent coal miner, and his wife Sarah Lincoln Crotty (1862-1914); the 1880 census found them in the county poor house; Rhodes was a Kentucky native and Crotty was from the portion of Virginia around Gauley Bridge that later became West Virginia. Crotty's parents were an Orange Irish immigrant and a Society of Friends descendant of several tidewater Virginia families, John Crotty and Ann Eliza Hanks (also my ancestors). In census returns Ellison Rhodes identified his parents as coming from Ohio. If Welsh descent appears in his ancestry, it comes through the Howe family. Genehisthome (talk) 00:46, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Blogs as sources
I note that this removal had the comment that 'blogs are not reliable sources'. While personal blogs generally are not reliable sources, the fact that the Ohio Historical Society chooses to use the blog form to publish should not make them any less good a source than if they used a different medium to place their content online. - Jmabel &#124; Talk 20:32, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 19:54, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Article is negative political propaganda, not objective historical info. Needs total rewrite
At first blush, the minute I opened this page, I noticed that the introduction only mentions the big black eye Governor Rhodes has for sending in the National Guard, as if that is the only important thing he ever did, and nothing good at all about him is mentioned in the introduction. The next numerous paragraphs are written in a condemning tone with inflammatory expressions such as "water gun diplomacy." Nothing kind is stated.

This imbalance of information immediately gives the appearance of political propaganda and not encyclopedic information. Further reading confirms the article is a political "hit' piece.

Anyone in the position of Governor will have good and bad history, and if only one side is presented it is just propaganda. Prior to Governor Rhodes's administration, Ohio had a tremendous number of tragic fire deaths in nursing homes--105 from 1969-1972 as compared to 116 for the other 49 states put together. Governor Rhodes pushed hard for tough new legislation to require smoke detectors and sprinkler systems in all Ohio nursing homes, as well as working alarm systems and mandatory safety educational requirements for all nursing home operators. Governor Rhodes saved a lot of lives by pushing hard for this legislation in the face of opposition from powerful lobbyists. Unfortunately, saving old people's lives from fires in nursing homes is not mentioned anywhere in the article.

This article needs to be completely rewritten with equal balance on the positive accomplishments as the governor's negatives. The inflammatory language needs to go. --Backwardlook (talk) 22:57, 8 July 2016 (UTC)


 * user:Backwardlook It is rather a short article. If you add the above positive accomplishments, they seem worthy of addition to the header. Wikipedia is theoretically collaborative, articles don't improve themselves. Please add any thing useful, (and referenced). Roseohioresident (talk) 00:17, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

"...one of only seven governors to serve 4 four-year terms in office. (The other six being Edwin Edwards, George Wallace, Jim Hunt, Bill Janklow, Jerry Brown, and Terry Branstad."
Nelson Rockefeller was elected governor in New York four times to four-year terms (1958, 1962, 1966 & 1970). He resigned in 1973 (his third year of his fourth term) to work for the Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, (and eventually became Vice President of the United States in 1974). So while he did not serve all four terms to completion: Should Rockefeller be included to this list as having been elected to four terms (as well as being elected consecutively to four terms) - or is it that he had to serve his entire terms to completion as well as being elected? Wiseguy007 18:27, 14 December 2019 (UTC)