John Milton Elliott

Birth Date

1820-05-20

Death Date

1879-03-26

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Floyd County, Kentucky, attorney, soldier, and politician. Scott County, Virginia, native. Son of John Lloyd Elliott and Jane Ritchie Elliott. Married to Susan J. Smith Elliott in 1848. Graduate of Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia. Admitted to the bar in 1843. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1847 and 1861. Attorney in Floyd County, Kentucky, in 1850. Member of the Sixth Congressional District of Kentucky of the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1853, to March 3, 1859. Indicted for treason in 1861. Expelled from the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky on December 21, 1861, for connection to the Confederate Army. Served in the 5th Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private. Delegate to the Provisional Confederate Congress in 1862. Member of the Twelfth Congressional District of the House of Representatives of the First and Second Confederate Congresses from 1862 to 1865. Chairman of the Committee on Enrolled Bills in the First Congress. Member of the Democratic Party.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Floyd County, My District, p. 473A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Floyd County, District No 1, p. 160.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 38-39.
“Buford’s Appeal: A Judge of Kentucky’s Highest Court Shot Down in the Capital,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), March 27, 1879.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0108.
“Elliott, John Milton,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 291-92.
“Elliott, John Milton (1820 - 1879),” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-Present, accessed August 22, 2018, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000125.
Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), 82-83.
H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 89-90.
“John Milton Elliott, (1820-1879),” Find A Grave, Memorial #7644549, accessed January 23, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7644549.
Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353.
Oration and Addresses on the Life and Character of John Milton Elliott, a Judge of the Appellate Court of Kentucky, Delivered in the Hall of the House of Representatives of Kentucky, April 24, 1884, (Frankfort, KY: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1884), 3, 8-9.

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