He was a delegate at the convention that drafted the constitution of Ohio, and was a state senator in the first general assembly after statehood.
[2] In 1778, Paul joined George Rogers Clark in the Illinois campaign, a series of battles during the American Revolutionary War, culminating with the capture of the town of Kaskaskia and British fort at Vincennes in 1779.
[4] Paul was elected one of four Hamilton County members of the Ohio State Senate for the first general assembly in 1803.
[7] The county seat was located on land owned by Paul, where the first building of the village of Xenia, Ohio was erected in 1804.
[10] In 1813, Paul established the second newspaper in Indiana, the "Western Eagle", and in 1814 he was named president of the first bank in the village.
His horse swam a flood swollen creek, but Paul fell and struck his head on a stone.
He was found unconscious and soaking wet some hours later, and suffered from rheumatism for three years before his death in Madison on June 6, 1830.