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Andrew Alkire Trumbo (Bath County Clerk/Attorney)

b. 1797 d. 1871

Bath County, Kentucky, attorney. Bath County native. Married to Eliza Triplett Trumbo in Bath County, Kentucky, on October 24, 1821. Father of Ann Trumbo, B. F. Trumbo, John Trumbo, and Robert Trumbo. Admitted to bar in 1824. Clerk of Bath County in 1830. Commonwealth's attorney for Bath County in 1830. Member of the Congress of the United States from Kentucky from March 4, 1845 to March 3, 1847. Presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1848. Owned ten enslaved persons in Bath County in 1850. Attorney in Bath County in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Bath County in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Division 2, p. 2B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Division 2, p. 298.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville, p. 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville, p. 74A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bath County Marriages, Film 000273002.

Andrew Trumbo Letters ed. Conrad W. Feltner (Middlesboro, Ky: C. W. Feltner, 1981).

Citation

Trumbo, Andrew Alkire. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199872 (November 12, 2026).

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