George Morgan Thomas

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1828-11-23

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1914-01-07

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"George Morgan Thomas" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00002380, (accessed December 22, 2024).

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Lewis County, Kentucky, teacher, politician and commonwealth’s attorney. Lewis County, Kentucky, native. Son of Elijah Thomas and Araminta P. Boggess Thomas. Married to Catherine H. Willim Thomas on July 8, 1850. Father of Bruce Fraser Thomas, Walter William Thomas, Araminta Thomas Pugh, and Mary A. Thomas. Teacher in Lewis County in 1850. Admitted to the Kentucky bar in 1851. Attorney in Lewis County from 1854 to 1858. Representative of Lewis County in the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1860 to 1862. Commonwealth’s attorney for the 10th Judicial District of Kentucky in Vanceburg from 1863 to 1869.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lewis County, District 2, p. 192A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Lewis County, p. 112.
"An Incorruptible Democracy," The Evening Bulletin (Maysville, KY), November 10, 1886, p. 2.
Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06.
Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12.
Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12.
Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50.
E. Polk Johnson, A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry and Modern Activities, vol.2 (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1912), 748-51.

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