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Philip Tomppert (Louisville, Kentucky, mayor)

b. 1808-06-21 d. 1873-10-29

Louisville, Kentucky, mayor. Native of Malmshein, Wurtemberg, Germany. Married to Margaret Tomppert. Father of Barbara Tomppert Doern, Philip Tomppert Jr., George Tomppert, Charles Tomppert, Henry Tomppert, Theodore Tomppert, John Tomppert. Elected to Kentucky state legislature in 1849. Porter in Louisville in 1850. Insurance agent in Louisville in 1860. Served on Louisville City Council as representative from the second ward from 1861 to 1864. Elected mayor of Louisville as a peace democrat on April 1, 1865. Impeached on December 28, 1865, for neglect of duty. Reinstated mayor by Kentucky Court of Appeals on February 14, 1867.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville District 1, p. 19B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville Ward 2, p. 579.
"Tomppert, Philip" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 887.
Find A Grave, "Philip Tomppert (1808-1873)," Memorial #21462355, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21462355 (accessed May 20, 2019).

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Tomppert, Philip. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204500 (November 12, 2026).

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