He gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce to the nations of the world; while man has done all that can be done by science to bind us together.

In 1841 he and his brother bought the Cincinnati Advertiser and renamed it the Cincinnati Enquirer. He then took office as State Auditor serving until 1845 when the Whigs swept most of the state's Democrats out of office in the Election of 1844. She had five children and survived Brough by 25 years.

John Brough (rhymes with "huff") (September 17 1811 – August 29 1865) was a War Democrat politician from Ohio. He served as the 26th Governor of Ohio during the final years of the American Civil War dying in office of gangrene shortly after the war concluded.