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Tucker Woodson (Jessamine Co. Politician)

b. 1804-11-04 d. 1874-07-08

Jessamine County, Kentucky, attorney, farmer, and politician. Jessamine County native. Married to Evelyn Byrd Woodson. Father of William Creighton Woodson, Sarah Woodson, Anna Meade Woodson, and Jessamine Byrd Woodson. Member of the Whig Party and Republican Party. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Jessamine County from 1835 to 1837 and in 1840. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1842 to 1846 and from 1853 to 1857. Farmer in Jessamine County in 1850. Farmer in Jessamine County in 1860. Owned nineteen enslaved persons Jessamine County in 1850. Owned twelve enslaved persons in Jessamine County in 1860. Member of the Union Executive Committee of Kentucky in 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, District No 2. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, District No 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, p. 74. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, p. 18. Bennett H. Young, A History of Jessamine County, Kentucky, from its Earliest Settlement to 1898 (Louisville: Courier-Journal Job Printing Co., 1898), 79 and 213-215; “Union State Convention at Frankfort,” The Commonwealth (Frankfort, Ky.), January 6, 1865. “Tucker Woodson,” ( http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodside-woodville.html#715.72.58) (accessed February 1, 2017). KYR-0002-022-0001.

Citation

Woodson, Tucker. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199324 (November 12, 2026).

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