Provisional Government of Kentucky

Creation Date

1861-11-18

Dissolution Date

1865

Entity Type

Organization

Confederate provisional government of Kentucky. Formed at Russellville, Kentucky, on November 18, 1861. Recognized by the Confederate States of America on December 10, 1861. Operated from Bowling Green, Kentucky, until February 1862. Administered by a governor and council of ten. Governor(s): George W. Johnson (1861-1862) and Richard Hawes (1862-1865). Secretary of State: Robert McKee. Treasurer: John Burnam. Auditor: Josiah Pillsbury.

J. P. Burnside and P. B. Thompson, eds., Proceedings of the Convention Establishing Provisional Government of Kentucky (Augusta, GA: Steam Press of Chronicle and Sentinel, 1863).
Lowell H. Harrison, "George W. Johnson and Richard Hawes: The Governors of Confederate Kentucky" Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 79, no. 1 (Winter 1981): 3-39.
Ron D. Bryant, "Confederate State Government" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 222.
KYR-0004-033-0003.

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