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Benjamin Monroe (Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney and court reporter.)

b. 1790 d. 1860

Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney and court reporter. Virginia native. Son of Andrew Monroe and Annabelle Monroe. Married to Cynthia Montgomery Monroe in Adair County, Kentucky, on May 27, 1813. Father of Benjamin Monroe, Jane M. Monroe, George Monroe, Mary Monroe, and Cynthia Monroe. Circuit court judge in Adair County, Kentucky, from 1824 to 1838. Resident of Adair County in 1840. Owned three enslaved persons in Adair County in 1840. Reporter of the Kentucky Court of Appeals from 1840 to 1858. President of the Kentucky Colonization Society in 1849. Attorney in Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1850.

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White

Bibliography

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, p. 38.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 52B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2.

Kurt X. Metzmeier, Writing the Legal Record: Law Reporters in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2017), 129-35.

"Ben Monroe (1790-1860)," Find A Grave, Memorial 1135337457, accessed October 23, 2023, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135337457.

Citation

Monroe, Benjamin. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202980 (November 12, 2026).

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