Abram Adams Hammond (Indiana governor )
b. 1814-03-21 d. 1874-08-27
Indiana attorney and governor. Brattleboro, Vermont, native. Married Mary B. Amsden Hammond. Father of Georgie Hammond Voorhies. Moved to Brookville, Indiana, as a child. Practiced law in Greenfield, Indiana, and Columbus, Indiana. Law partner of John H. Bradley in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1846. Practiced law in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1847 to 1849. Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Marion County, Indiana, in Indianapolis in 1850. Practiced law in San Francisco, California, from 1852 to 1855. Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Marion County in 1856. Elected lieutenant governor of Indiana as a Democrat in 1856. Governor of Indiana upon the death of Ashbel Willard from October 4, 1860, to January 14, 1861.
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- Male
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- White
Bibliography
George Iriving Reed, ed., Encyclopedia of Biography of Indiana, vol. 2 (Chicago: The Century Publishing and Engraving Co., 1899), 37-39.
“Indiana Governor Abram Adams Hammond (1814 - 1874),” Indiana Historical Bureau,
http://www.in.gov/history/2736.htm (accessed July 21, 2017).
Citation
Hammond, Abram Adams. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198163 (November 12, 2026).
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