The Commonwealth

Creation Date

1833

Dissolution Date

1872

Entity Type

Organization

Newspaper and printing office in Frankfort, Kentucky. Known for representing the Whig and Republican political positions. Owners and publishers: Albert G. Hodges (1833-1842), A. G. Hodges, John M. Todd, & John W. Pruett (1842 -1846), A. G. Hodges & Co. (1846-1856), Albert G. Hodges (1856-1865). Editor(s): Orlando Brown (1833-1842), Thomas B. Stevenson (1842-1846), John W. Finnell (1846-1850), William L. Callender (1850-1856), Thomas M. Green (1856-1860), J. H. Johnson (1860-1863), Henri F. Middleton (1863-1864), Henry E. Thomas (1864).

Carl E. Kramer and William B. Scott, Jr., Capital on the Kentucky (Frankfort, KY: Historic Frankfort, Inc., 1986), 143, 208.
"The Daily Commonwealth," Chronicling America, accessed May 18, 2017, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015460/.
Frank F. Mathias, "Albert Gallatin Hodges," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 435-36.
"The Frankfort Commonwealth," Chronicling America, accessed May 18, 2017, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015463/.
"Tri-weekly Commonwealth," Chronicling America, accessed May 18, 2017, http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015455/.
Willard Rouse Jillson, The Newspapers and Periodicals of Frankfort, Kentucky 1795-1945 (Frankfort, KY: Kentucky State Historical Society, 1945), 14.

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