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Landaff Watson Andrews (Fleming County, KY Politician, 10th Cir Ct Judge, atty)

b. 1803-02-12 d. 1888-12-23

Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney, legislator, and judge. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Dorsey Andrews. Father of Juliet Andrews, Margaret Andrew, and James Ella Andrews. Graduate of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1824. Attorney in Fleming County from 1828 to 1839. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Fleming County in 1834 and 1838. Whig Party member of Congress of the United States of America from Kentucky from 1839 to 1843. Owned eleven enslaved persons in Fleming County in 1850. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Fleming County from 1857 to 1861. Owned twelve enslaved persons in Fleming County in 1860. Held interest in an additional fourteen enslaved persons in Fleming County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Fleming County from 1861 to 1862. Judge of the Tenth Judicial Circuit from 1862 to 1868.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, Flemingsburg, p. 256A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, Flemingsburg.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, Flemingsburg, District 2, p. 623.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, Flemingsburg, District 2, p.473B , p. 473B.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, History of Kentucky, Volume II (Covington, KY: Collins and Company, 1878), p. 230-31.

Sixty-first U.S. Congress, Senate Documents, Volume 56: Biographical Congressional Directory (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1913), p. 442.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50.

The Evening Bulletin (Maysville, KY), December 21, 1888, page 3.

"Landaff Watson Andrews" (1803-1888), Find a Grave, Memorial 7669613, accessed March 3, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7669613.

Citation

Andrews, Landaff Watson. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197027 (November 12, 2026).

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