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Robert M. Carlisle (Kenton County, Kentucky, politician and farmer.)

b. 1807?

Kenton County, Kentucky, politician and farmer. Virginia native. Married to Elizabeth Carlisle. Common schools commissioner in Kenton County in 1840. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Kenton County in 1841, 1847, and 1851-1853. Farmer in Kenton County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Kenton County in 1860. Arrested by order of Major General Stephen G. Burbridge in late July 1864 and held in jail in Louisville.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, District 1, p. 171.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, District 1, p. 4.

Teresa Wilkins, "Kenton Co. School District" in The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, Paul A. Tenkotte and James C. Claypool, eds. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009), 509.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, _Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1878), 137, 193.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1878), 421.

Citation

Carlisle, Robert M.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200086 (November 12, 2026).

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