Civil War Governors of Kentucky · Civil War Governors of Kentucky

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William Henry Wadsworth (KY state senator, U. S. Representative, attorney, presidential elector)

b. 1821-07-04 d. 1893-04-02

About

Mason County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Kentucky native. Married to Martha M. Wood Wadsworth in Lewis County, Kentucky, in June 1849. Father of Adney Wadsworth, Henry Wadsworth, Charles Wadsworth, John G. Wadsworth, and Elizabeth J. Wadsworth. Educated at Maysville Seminary. Graduated from Augusta College in 1841. Studied law and admitted to the bar in 1844. Attorney in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Mason County in 1850. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1853 to 1856. Presidential elector for the Constitutional Union Party in 1860. Served in the United States Army as a colonel and as an aide to General William “Bull” Nelson. Served the Ninth Congressional District of Kentucky as a Unionist member of the United States House of Representative from 1861 to 1865.

Details

Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville District 1, p. 37B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville District 1, p. 689

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, pp. 355-56.

Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Precinct No 2, p. 329D.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Lewis County Marriages, Film #000344051.

Charles Lanman, Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States (Washington: J. M. Morrison, 1887), 520.

“Wadsworth, William Henry,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000015.

"William Henry Wadsworth (1821-1893)," Find A Grave, Memorial #9375030, accessed March December 20, 2016, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9375030.

Citation

Wadsworth, William Henry. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200502 (November 12, 2026).

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James H. G. Bush to John W. Finnell
1862-10-03
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James P. Hendrick to John W. Finnell
1863-01-28
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W. C. Halbert to H. Taylor
1863-10-15
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W. H. Savage to Taylor
1862-08-25
Correspondence
William H. Wadsworth to James F. Robinson
1862-09-16

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