Kammala wannan jumla: An haifi Kimball a 1820 a New Hampshire. An haife shi a matsayin Whig da kuma Abolitionist. A shekara ta 1842 ya koma gundumar Medina, Ohio, kuma ba da daɗewa ba aka zaɓe shi zuwa ofishin gundumar. Ya kasance mai gabatar da kara na Gundumar Medina 1849-1853. Ya kasance zakara na Anti-Nebraska Movement a 1854, kuma wanda ya kafa Jam'iyyar Republican a Ohio. Ya halarci taron farko na kasa a Pittsburgh, da kuma na farko na yau da kullum
Taron kasa a Philadelphia, inda ya kamu da cutar da za ta kai ga mutuwarsa. An zabi shi a matsayin Ohio Attorney General, kuma ya lashe zaben a 1855. Ya mutu a ranar 15 ga Agusta, 1856, kuma Christopher P. Wolcott na Summit County ya gaje shi a matsayin Babban Shari'a ta hanyar nadin Gwamna Salmon P. Chase.