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Venerando "Vene" Politza Armstrong (Hardin County, Kentucky, merchant, politician, and postmaster.)

b. 1823-11 d. 1877-04-20

Hardin County, Kentucky, merchant, politician, and postmaster. Washington, D.C., native. Married to Martha Jane Perkins Armstrong in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on April 23, 1845. Father of William B. Armstrong and Laura Armstrong. Merchant in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned one enslaved person in Louisville in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Hardin County, Kentucky, from 1857 to 1861. Merchant in Hardin County in 1860. Postmaster for West Point in Hardin County from June 13, 1861, to September 18, 1862. Pork merchant in partnership with Joseph Mitchell in Mitchell & Armstrong in Louisville from 1864 to 1866.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 7, pp. 370A-B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hardin County, District 3, p. 31.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 6, p. 626A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Louisville County Marriages, Film 000482707.

Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Hardin County, Kentucky, vol. 28, p. 86.

Caron's Directory of the City of Louisville, for 1876 (Louisville, KY: Bradley & Gilbert, 1876), 84.

"Vene P. Armstrong," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), April 21, 1877, p. 4.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. II (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1878), 307.

Citation

Armstrong, Venerando "Vene" Politza. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208246 (November 12, 2026).

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