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John B. Clarke (Bracken County, Kentucky, attorney)

b. 1833-04-14 d. 1911-05-23

Bracken County, Kentucky, attorney. Bracken County native. Son of John Clarke and Mary Blades. Attended Augusta College in Augusta, Kentucky. Married to Cordelia A. Robertson on October 3, 1854. Farmer in Bracken County in 1850. Admitted to the Bar in 1854. County attorney in Bracken County from 1858 to 1862. Chairman of the Democratic County Executive Committee from 1862 to 1874. Chairman of the District Executive Democratic Committee. Member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bracken County, p. 407A.
W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 8th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1888), 769-70.
Kentucky, County Marriage Records, 1783-1965, File #000851644, Bracken County, October 3, 1854.
Congressional Directory, Forty-Fifth Congress, Third Session, 2nd ed., (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1879), 25.
Find A Grave, "John Blades Clarke” (1833-1911)," Memorial #6565879, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6565879/john-blades-clarke (accessed July 17, 2018).

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Clarke, John B.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204969 (November 12, 2026).

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