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Joshua Fry Bullitt (Louisville. Ct. of Appeals Judge)

b. 1821-02-22 d. 1898-02-16

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and Judge of the Third District Court of Appeals. Jefferson County, Kentucky, native. Married to Elizabeth B. Smith in 1846. Father of George Bullitt, Martha Bullitt, William Bullitt, and Joshua Fry Bullitt, Jr. Attended Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. Studied law at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. Admitted to the bar in Kentucky in 1844. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Jefferson County, Kentucky, from1851to 1855. Practiced law in partnership with S. B. Smith in 1859. Attorney in Louisville in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Louisville in 1850. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Elected Judge of the Third District of the Kentucky Court of Appeals in 1861. Served as Chief Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals from 1864 to June 3, 1865. Arrested in July 1864 for his sympathy to the Confederacy. Exiled to Memphis, Tennessee until November 22, 1864. Returned to Louisville on December 6, 1864. Fled to Canada to avoid arrest on December 27, 1864.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 2, p. 195B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 2, p. 759.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 920.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 236B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, St. Matthews, Gillmans Precinct, p. 317A.

John Livingston, Livingston’s United States Law Register and Official Directory (New York: John A. Gray, 1859), 300.

John J. McAfee, Kentucky Politicians: Sketches of Representative Corncrackers and Other Miscellany (Louisville, Kentucky: Press of the Courier-Journal Printing Company, 1866), 36–40.

H. Levin, ed., The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago, IL: Lewis Publishing Company, 1897),87-89.

"Judge Joshua Fry Bullitt, (1821- 1898)," Find A Grave, Memorial 52166895, accessed September 22, 2017, http://findagrave.com/memorial/52166895.

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Bullitt, Joshua Fry. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206825 (November 12, 2026).

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