Former Provisions of the Constitution of the State of Ohio, 1851 Former Art. III, § 18

Should the office of auditor, treasurer, secretary or attorney general, become vacant, for any of the causes specified in the fifteenth section of this article, the governor shall fill the vacancy until the disability is removed, or a successor elected and qualified.  Every such vacancy shall be filled by election, at the first general election that occurs more than thirty days after it shall have happened;  and the person chosen shall hold the office for the full term fixed in the second section of this article.