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Alfred Allen (Breckinridge County, Kentucky, attorney and politician)

b. 1815?

About

Breckinridge County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Kentucky native. Son of Joseph Allen and Margaret Crawford Allen. Married to Mary E. Jennings in 1853. Father of Horace Allen and Mary Allen. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Breckinridge County from 1838 to 1839 and 1861 to 1866. Commonwealth's attorney for the 1st Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1839 to 1856. Unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, on Joshua F. Bell's ticket, in 1859. Attorney in Breckinirdge County in 1860. Recruited five companies of the 27th Kentucky Regiment Volunteer Infantry in 1861.

Details

Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Breckinridge County, District 1, p. 113. Thomas Marshall Green, Historic Families of Kentucky: With Special Reference to Stocks Immediately Derived from the Valley of Virginia (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1889), 278. The Union Army: States and Regiments vol. 4 (Madison, Wis.: Federal Publishing Company, 1908), 337.

Citation

Allen, Alfred. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203582 (November 12, 2026).

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Correspondence
Alfred Allen to Unknown
Broadside
James F. Robinson et al., Complimentary to the Union Ladies of Kentucky
1863-02-14
Petition
Martha E. Butler et al. to James F. Robinson
Petition
Thomas E. Bramlette et al. to Abraham Lincoln

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