George Douglas Blakey

Birth Date

1809-02-21

Death Date

1885-12-13

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Logan County, Kentucky, farmer, writer, and politician. Kentucky native. Married to Lucy L. Thomas Blakey. Father of Elizabeth Patterson Blakey, James Reuben Blakey, Sallie George Blakey McCarley, William Churchill Blakey, Pamelia Margaret Blakey Duncan, and Reuben Thomas Blakey. Owned thirty-three enslaved persons in 1850. Owned twenty-one enslaved persons in 1860. Member of the Republican Party and Union Party. Member of the Bowling Green Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Ran as the Emancipation Party vice presidential candidate with Cassius Marcellus Clay in 1848. Senatorial delegate for the Republican Party of Kentucky in 1858. Member of the Union Executive Committee of Kentucky in 1865. Resident of Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1865. Appointed by President Andrew Johnson as one of three Commissioners to make awards to loyal slaveowners whose slaves enlisted in the Union Army.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, District No 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, Russellville District No 2, p. 113. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Logan County, Russellville District No 2, p. 24.
“Death of George D. Blakey,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), December 15, 1885. “Union State Convention at Frankfort,” The Commonwealth (Frankfort, Ky.), January 6, 1865. “Black Republicanism in Kentucky,” Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), November 18, 1859. “Independent Order of Odd Fellows,” Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), July 22, 1854. “Loyal Owners of Kentucky Slaves,” Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), October 25, 1866. Katy Haden, “Descendants of Anthony Haden,” (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~katy/haden/b821.html) (accessed January 31, 2017).
KYR-0002-022-0001.

Civil War Governors of Kentucky is always evolving. Help us improve the edition by suggesting a correction or addition to this record.

Suggest a correction