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Thomas Holman Hanks (Anderson County, KY, attorney, politician, circuit court clerk, and farmer)

b. 1823-11-06 d. 1897-10-15

Anderson County, Kentucky, attorney, politician, court clerk, and farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Margaret R. Myers Hanks in 1858. Elected to the House of Representatives for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Anderson County from 1849 to 1850. Clerk of the Anderson Circuit Court from 1856 to 1862. Farmer in Anderson County in 1860. Owned nine enslaved persons in Anderson County in 1860. County attorney in Anderson County from 1863 to 1867.

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White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Anderson County, p. 413.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Anderson County, p. 26A.

H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 516-17.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Anderson County, Marriages, Film #001550673, p. 236.

"Thos. H. Hanks (1823-1897)," Find A Grave, Memorial #47342184, accessed May 9, 2019, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47342184.

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Hanks, Thomas Holman. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202578 (November 12, 2026).

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