Francis Dunlavy (1761–1839) was a teacher, judge and Ohio Senator.

Two years later, he was chosen as a delegate to the Ohio Constitutional Convention, representing Hamilton county.

[1] Dunlavy took an active role in writing the Ohio Constitution but was unable to include any sort of provision guaranteeing suffrage to African-Americans.

In 1803, he was elected to the first Ohio State Senate but was soon appointed a president judge for the Court of Common Pleas for Southwest Ohio even though had never been called to the bar.

His tombstone reads- He was one of the first white men who entered the Territory now forming Ohio; was a member of the Territorial Legislature, and of the convention which formed the Constitution of Ohio Historical Lebanon Ohio Pic of tombstone