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Charles Ripley (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney)

b. 1815? d. 1866

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Greenfield, Massachusetts, native. Married to Margaret Breckenridge Ripley in Washington, D. C., in 1859. Attorney at Ripley & Thompson in partnership with William K. Thompson in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1861. Elected to the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from the 15th Senatorial District in 1856.

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White

Bibliography

Joseph Gardner Bartlett, Gregory Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Dea. Gregory Stone of Cambridge, Mass., 1320-1917 (Boston: Stone Family Association, 1918), 256.

Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 206.

Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort: A. G. Hodges, 1856), 3.

"Charles Ripley Photograph Collection, ca. 1850 - ca. 1929," Finding aid at the Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky, https://nyx.uky.edu/fa/findingaid/?id=xt79cn6xwq6x#fa-heading-descriptive-summary (accessed July 25, 2016).

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Ripley, Charles. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204457 (November 12, 2026).

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