George Robertson

Birth Date

1790-11-18

Death Date

1874-05-16

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Fayette County, Kentucky, judge, politician, and attorney. Mercer County, Kentucky, native. Son of Alexander Robertson and Margaret Robertson. Married to Eleanor Bainbridge Robertson in Garrard County, Kentucky, on November 28, 1809. Father of Alexander Robertson, James Robertson, and George Robertson. Admitted to the bar in 1809. Member of the United States House of Representatives from 1817 to 1821. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1822 to 1827, 1848, 1851, and 1852. Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1823, 1825 to 1827, 1851, and 1852. Secretary of state for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1828. Chief justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals from 1829 to 1843. Law professor at Transylvania University from 1834 to 1857. Attorney in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1860. Engaged Benjamin Gill as a law student in Lexington in 1860. Justice of the court of appeals for the second district of Kentucky from 1864 to 1871.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 210A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 550.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Garrard County Marriages, Film #000183256, p. 92.
Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume V, ed. James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1888): 277-78.

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