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John White Stevenson (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and politician)

b. 1812-05-04 d. 1886-08-10

Covington, Kenton County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Richmond, Virginia, native. Son of Andrew Stevenson and Mary White Stevenson. Attended Hampden-Sidney Academy. Graduate of the University of Virginia in 1834. Attorney in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Moved to Covington, Kentucky in 1841. Married to Sibella Winston Stevenson in 1843. Father of Mary Winston Stevenson, Sally Coles Stevenson, Samuel W. Stevenson, Andrew Stevenson, Judith Stevenson, and John White Stevenson. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Kenton County from 1845 to 1849 and from 1857 to 1861. Delegate to the 1849 Kentucky Constitutional Convention. Attorney in Covington in 1850. Appointed as a commissioner to revise the Civil and Criminal Code of Kentucky from 1850 to 1851. Democratic Party presidential elector in 1852 and 1856. Attorney in Covington in 1860. Employed Gabriel Standafer as a servant in Covington in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington Ward 4, 262B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Kenton County, Covington Ward 7, p. 908.

“Stevenson, John White,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, s.v., http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000894, (accessed January 6, 2017).

Charles Lanman, Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States (Washington: J. M. Morrison, 1887), 476.

“Stevenson, John White,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 854.

“Graduates of the University of Virginia” in Edmund Ruffin, ed., The Farmers’ Register, vol. 2 (Shellbanks, Va.: Edmund Ruffin, Proprietor, 1835), 252-253.

Find a Grave, “John White Stevenson, Sr. (1812-1886)," Memorial #6860303, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6860303 (accessed January 6, 2017).

“Ex-Gov. Stevenson,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), August 11, 1886.

Citation

Stevenson, John White. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206894 (February 11, 2026).

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