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Samuel F. Swope (Pendleton County, KY, attorney & state rep and senator, US)

b. 1809-03-01 d. 1865-04-19

Pendleton County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Bourbon County, Kentucky, native. Married to Louisa C. Swope. Father of Mary C. Swope, George W. Swope, Sarah Elizabeth Swope, Henrietta C. Swope, Charles T. Swope, Martha Ann Swope, John S. Swope, Samuel F. Swope, Ether M. Swope, Douglas P. Swope, and Oliva Swope. Attended Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky. Attorney in Pendleton County from 1832 to 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Pendleton County from 1837 to 1839. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Pendleton County from 1844 to 1848. Successful American Party candidate for United States House of Representatives from the Tenth District from 1855 to 1857.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pendleton County, District 1, p. 350A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pendleton County, p. 261.

Teresa Wilkins, "Samuel F. Swope" in The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, Paul A. Tenkotte and James C. Claypool, eds. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009), 862-63.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1877), 676.

Find A Grave, "Samuel Franklin Swope (1809-1865)," Memorial #11924609, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11924609 (accessed March 22, 2020).

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Swope, Samuel F.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205197 (November 12, 2026).

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