William Scott Botts

Birth Date

1810-02-18

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Flemingsburg, Kentucky, native. Son of George Washington Botts and Ann Scott Botts. Attended Transylvania University. Attended the University of Virginia. Graduated from the Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1831. Member of the Whig Party and Democratic Party. Delegate to the 1840 and 1852 national conventions of the Whig Party. Attorney in Flemingsburg in 1842. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Fleming County in 1841, 1846, and 1862. Judge of Fleming County Court from 1850 to 1854. Owned three enslaved persons in Fleming County in 1860. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Fleming County from 1863 to 1867. Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1865.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District No 1, p. 58.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District No 1, p.467A.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 635.
KYR-0002-161-0005.

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