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John James Landram (Gallatin Co., Ky, Attorney/ Politician/18th Kentucky)

b. 1826-11-16 d. 1890-11-13

Gallatin County, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and soldier. Warsaw, Kentucky, native. Son of James P. Landram and Maria Brown Landram. Married to Susan M. Swope Landram. Father of Ella Landram and John J. Landram. Served in the 1st Kentucky Cavalry during the U.S.-Mexican War. Elected to the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky as a Whig in 1851. Circuit court clerk in Gallatin County in 1853. Graduated from University of Louisville Law School in Louisville. Attorney in Gallatin County in 1860. Served in the 18th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as lieutenant colonel from February 8, 1862, to February 6, 1863. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky representing Gallatin, Grant, and Boone counties from 1863 to 1867.

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White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Gallatin County, Warsaw, p. 2.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 2-3.

John Fiske and James Grant Wilson, ed., Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. 3, (New York: Appleton, 1889), 605.

J.M. Armstrong, "John J Landrum," The Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky, 1878. http://www.nkyviews.com/gallatin/pdf/Gallatin JJ_Landrum.pdf (accessed on March 3, 2017).

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Landram, John James. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32196545 (November 12, 2026).

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