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John M. Burns (Floyd County, Kentucky, attorney.)

b. 1827?

Floyd County, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Son of Roland T. Burns and Elizabeth Rewland. Married to Keziah Clay Burns. Father of Kate Burns, Roland Burns, Mary Burns, James Trimble Burns, Sophia Burns, Mittan Burns, and Leonidas Burns. Admitted to the bar in 1851. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1857 to 1859. Attorney in Floyd County, Kentucky, in 1860. Elected to the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Floyd County in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Floyd County, p. 4.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Floyd County, District 2, p. 478A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyd County, Cattlesburg, p. 113A.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 1882.

W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 8th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1888), 758-59.

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Burns, John M.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202390 (November 12, 2026).

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