Thomas Holman Hanks

Birth Date

1823-11-06

Death Date

1897-10-15

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Anderson County, Kentucky, attorney, politician, court clerk, and farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Margaret R. Myers Hanks in 1858. Elected to the House of Representatives for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Anderson County from 1849 to 1850. Clerk of the Anderson Circuit Court from 1856 to 1862. Farmer in Anderson County in 1860. Owned nine enslaved persons in Anderson County in 1860. County attorney in Anderson County from 1863 to 1867.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Anderson County, p. 413.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Anderson County, p. 26A.
H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 516-17.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Anderson County, Marriages, Film #001550673, p. 236.
"Thos. H. Hanks (1823-1897)," Find A Grave, Memorial #47342184, accessed May 9, 2019, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47342184.

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