Who was the Governor of Ohio in 1917?

Frank B. Willis (born December 28, 1871 in Lewis Center, Ohio; died March 30, 1928 in Delaware, Ohio) succeeded James M. Cox as the forty-seventh Governor of Ohio, serving between January 11, 1915 and January 8, 1917.

Following the end of Willis' term as Governor of Ohio, James M. Cox (born March 31, 1870 in Jacksonburg, Ohio; died July 15, 1957 in Kettering, Ohio) became the forty-eighth Governor of Ohio, serving between January 8, 1917 and January 10, 1921.