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Austin Bingham (Trigg County, Kentucky, laborer. Convicted of murder in 1859.)

b. 1833?

Trigg County, Kentucky, laborer. Tennessee native. Convicted of murder by the Trigg Circuit Court in 1859. Sentenced to death by the Trigg Circuit Court in 1859. Sentence commuted by Governor Beriah Magoffin to 15 years imprisonment in the Kentucky State Penitentiary in 1860. Inmate of the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Frankfort, Kentucky, in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 281.

"Commuted," Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, KY), April 13, 1860, p. 1.

William Henry Perrin, ed., County of Trigg, Kentucky: Historical and Biographical (Louisville: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1884), 59.

Citation

Bingham, Austin. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198591 (November 12, 2026).

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