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Richard J. Browne (Washington Co, KY, State Rep & attorney)

b. 1821?

Washington County, Kentucky, attorney, farmer, and politician. Kentucky native. Married to Harriet Browne. Attorney in Springfield, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned eighteen enslaved persons in Washington County in 1850. Attorney in Washington County in 1860. Farmer in Washington County in 1860. Owned eighteen enslaved persons in Washington County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Washington County from 1862 to 1863.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Washington County, Town of Springfield, p. 238B

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Washington County, Town of Springfield. p. 361.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Washington County, District 2, p. 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Washington County, District 2, p. 18.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, Ky.: Collins & Co., 1882), 749.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong, 1878), 336.

Citation

Browne, Richard J.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205816 (November 12, 2026).

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