Andrew Jackson James

Birth Date

1817-06-04

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney, legislator, and attorney general of Kentucky. Pulaski County, Kentucky, native. Married to Mary A. Beatie James in Pulaski County, Kentucky, on March 16, 1841. Father of Sarah B. James, John B. James, Daniel James, Anna Eliza James, Clara James, Samuel James, and Emma James. Attorney in Somerset in 1850. Owned eighteen enslaved persons in Somerset in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives in the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Pulaski County in 1855. Attorney general of Kentucky from 1859 to 1863. Owned ten enslaved persons in Frankfort in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, Somerset, p. 1A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, Somerset, p. 475.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 236.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 488A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 144B.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century (Cincinnati, OH: J. M. Armstrong and Company, 1878), 314.
C. E. James, A Short History of Franklin County, Kentucky... (Frankfort, KY: George A. Lewis, 1881), 10.
Clarence E. Walker, Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Kentucky State Bar Association, Held in Olympian Springs, Ky., July 9, 10 and 11, 1913 (Louisville, KY: Westerfield-Bonte Company, 1913), 177-76.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Pulaski County Marriages, Film #000804052, p.162.

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