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Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney )

b. 1821-01-08 d. 1908-11-28

Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney, soldier, and politician. Harrodsburg, Kentucky, native. Son of John B. and Nancy Robards Thompson. Married to Martha A. Montgomery Thompson. Father of Davis M. Thompson, Philip “Little Phil” Burton Thompson, Jr., and John Burton Thompson. Educated at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, and Jefferson College in Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania. Admitted to the bar in 1840 and practiced law in Mercer County, Kentucky. Member of the Whig Party. Served in the Second Regiment Kentucky Foot Volunteers as a captain from 1846 to 1847 during the US-Mexico War. Member of the Council of Ten in the Provisional Government of Kentucky. Member of the Committee on Banks and Committee on Military Affairs for the provisional government of Kentucky. Received gubernatorial pardon on September 2, 1865.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District No 1, p. 247A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 686.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 583B.

The Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, (Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, 1896): 166-68.

Case Files of Applications from Former Confederates for Presidential Pardons ("Amnesty Papers"), 1865-67, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M1003, Roll 0025, Kentucky, p. 641 of microfilm (accessed through ancestry.com on January 8, 2020).

Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353.

John J. McAfee, Kentucky Politicians: Sketches of Representative Corncrackers and other Miscellany (Louisville: Press of the Courier-Journal Job Printing Company, 1886), 156-157.

“Full of Years Noted Man Dies: Col. Phil B. Thompson, Sr., Is No More,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), November 29, 1908.

Find A Grave, "Colonel Phillip Burton Thompson, Sr (1821-1908)," Memorial 126486353, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126486353 (accessed January 25, 2017).

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Thompson, Philip Burton, Sr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203126 (November 12, 2026).

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