Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whānau a Kimball i te tau 1820 i New Hampshire. I whakatipuhia ia hei Whig me te Kaituku. I te tau 1842 ka neke ia ki Medina County, Ohio, a, i muri tata ka pootihia ki te tari kawanatanga. Ko ia te kaitohutohu a Medina County i te tau 1849-1853. He toa ia mo te Anti-Nebraska Movement i te tau 1854, me te kaiwhakaara o te Rōpū Reipa i Ohio. I tae ia ki te Rūnanga ā-Motu o mua i Pittsburgh, me te tuatahi o te wā katoa
I te National Convention i Philadelphia, i reira i pangia ai e ia he mate ka mate ai ia. I whakaingoatia ia hei Kaitohutohu Matua o Ohio, a ka wikitoria i te pooti i te tau 1855. I mate ia i te 15 o Akuhata 1856, a ko Christopher P. Wolcott o Summit County i whai muri i a ia hei Kawana Salmon P. Chase.