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William D. Lannom (Clinton, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and soldier)

b. 1823? d. 1872-03-04

Clinton, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and soldier. Tennessee native. Married to Nannie Lannom. Father of Percy Lannom and Mollie Beth Lannom. Attorney in Clinton in 1860. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in Clinton in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Fulton County and Hickman County, Kentucky, from 1859 to 1861. Captain in the 7th Kentucky Cavalry (Confederate) from September 1861 to April 1862. Reisgned due to health issues in April 1862. Lieutenant colonel in the 12th Kentucky Cavalry (Confederate) from October 1863 to May 1864. Moved to Paris, Tennessee.

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Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, Clinton, p. 78. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, Clinton, p. 11. Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, (Louisville: Richard H. Collins, 1877), 342. Burce S. Allardice and Lawrence Lee Hewitt, eds., Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008), 298. Journal of the Called Session of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, John B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 48.

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Lannom, William D.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201812 (November 12, 2026).

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