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George W. Hite (Nelson County, Kentucky, representative and attorney)

b. 1806?

Nelson County, Kentucky, representative and attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Mary A. Hite. Father of Thomas M. Hite and Rhoda Hite Sheridan. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Nelson County from 1848 to 1849. Attorney in Nelson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned eight enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1850. Attorney in Jefferson County in 1861.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 389A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 236.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994050, Nelson County Marriages, p. 217.

Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (1848), vol. 2, December 30, 1848 - February 28, 1849, (Frankfort: A. C. Hodges & Co, 1849), 5.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 303.

Citation

Hite, George W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206129 (November 12, 2026).

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