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Nathaniel Wolfe (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, Ky rep & senator)

b. 1808-10-29 d. 1865-07-03

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Richmond, Virginia, native. Son of Benjamin Wolfe and Sophia Wolfe. Married to Mary Vernon Wolfe on October 3, 1838. Father of Ella Wolfe, William C. Wolfe, Sophia Wolfe, Nathaniel Wolfe, Vernon Wolfe, Preston Wolfe, and Mary Wolfe. Graduate of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. Commonwealth's attorney for Jefferson County, Kentucky, from 1839 to 1852. Owned six enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Attorney in partnership with Silas N. Hodges in 1861. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Louisville from 1853 to 1855. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Louisville from 1859 to 1863. Owned three enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 2.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 2, p. 759.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, 4th Ward City of Louisville, p. 95.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 4, p. 9.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1882), 357.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Henry Tanner, 1861), 267.

“Wolfe, Nathaniel” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 962.

Citation

Wolfe, Nathaniel. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201719 (January 13, 2026).

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