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William Scott Botts (Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and politician)

b. 1810-02-18

About

Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Flemingsburg, Kentucky, native. Son of George Washington Botts and Ann Scott Botts. Attended Transylvania University. Attended the University of Virginia. Graduated from the Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1831. Member of the Whig Party and Democratic Party. Delegate to the 1840 and 1852 national conventions of the Whig Party. Attorney in Flemingsburg in 1842. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Fleming County in 1841, 1846, and 1862. Judge of Fleming County Court from 1850 to 1854. Owned three enslaved persons in Fleming County in 1860. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Fleming County from 1863 to 1867. Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1865.

Details

Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District No 1, p. 58.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District No 1, p.467A.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 635.

KYR-0002-161-0005.

Citation

Botts, William Scott. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198926 (November 12, 2026).

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Documents (6)

Correspondence
Daniel W. Lindsey to W. L. Botts
1865-02-11
Correspondence
John L. Dorsey to James F. Robinson
1863-06-01
Correspondence
L. B. Cox to William S. Botts
1863-12-11
Correspondence
Thomas B. Smith to William S. Botts
1862-08-27
Correspondence
William S. Botts et al. to James F. Robinson
Correspondence
William S. Botts to Thomas E. Bramlette
1863-11-01

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