Two are elected in the year after the presidential election and one is elected in the year before it. The township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered years to a four-year term beginning on the following January 1.
In 1914, Tampico and the surrounding rural areas supported four schools and two churches. Located in the northwestern part of the township, its earliest residents were freeborn African Americans from Rockingham County, Virginia who moved to Ohio after the county evicted all freeborn African Americans. One of German Township's most distinctive features was Tampico, an African-American settlement founded in 1822 and platted in 1850. : 552 The first school in the township was established near Palestine in 1820, while the first church (a Lutheran congregation) was built in 1826. The first settler within its bounds was James Cloyd, who arrived six years before the township's organization. German Township was formed from parts of Harrison and Washington counties in 1820. One of twenty-five Liberty Townships statewide, it was originally named German Township, but its name was changed to Liberty Township in the 1910s.
The village of Palestine is located in central Liberty Township.
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