State Conventions

	Year	City-Venue	International Guest
3rd	May 24,1922 (8A)	Lima-Barr Hotel (HQ)	Dr. B.W Beatty 3rd VP
8th	*May 26-27,1927 (2A)	Toledo- Hotel Waldorf (BS) & Commodore Perry Hotel	IP William A. Westfall
12th	May 19-20,1931 (4A)	Lima-Norvel Hotel & Imperial house (BS)	IP Earl W. Hodges
18th	May 16-18,1937 (2A)	Toledo-New Secor Hotel	IP Edwin R. Kingsley
28th	May 23-25,1947 (1A)	Toledo-Commodore Perry Hotel & Secor Hotel	PIP Dr. Ramiro Collazo
42nd	May 25-27,1961	Toledo-Commodore Perry Hotel	IP Finis E. Davis
46th	May 14-16,1965	Toledo-Commodore Perry Hotel	PIP Edgar Elbert
69th	May 20-22,1988	Toledo-Radisson Hotel	PIP Joseph L. Wroblewski
71st	May 25-27,1990	Toledo-Radisson Hotel	IP William L. Woolard
78th	May 16-18,1997	Toledo-Radisson Hotel & Seagate Center	IP Augustin Soliva
82nd	May 18-20,2001	Toledo-Wyndham Hotel	PID Jimmy Ross

Convention Program PDF Files best viewed at 50%.
Convention programs courtesy of the State Office and scanned by PDG Bill Keller.

Note: State Conventions in the years between 1920 and 1948 where considered District conventions or Annual conventions according to Ohio Lions History by E.C. and Alice Baum. For namesake I am calling this page State Conventions.
*= According to Lions History the 8th state convention was one day, newspapers had a two day event.
8A= Eight newspaper articles, 4A= four newspaper articles.
BS= Business Session
HQ= Headquarters
Newspaper articles taken from newspaperArchive.com or Newspapers.com, they have copyrights of their own.