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Henry Grider (Warren County, KY, attorney)

b. 1796-07-16 d. 1866-09-07

Warren County, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Sallie Grider. Father of Daniel Grider, Rachel Grider, and Virginia Bryant Grider. Attorney in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Served in Payne's Company of the Kentucky Mounted Volunteer Militia as a corporal during the War of 1812. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Warren County in 1827 and 1831. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Warren County from 1833 to 1837. Member of the Whig Party. Member of the House of Representatives of the United States from the Third Congressional District of Kentucky from 1843 to 1847. Attorney and farmer in Warren County in 1850. Owned nineteen enslaved persons in Warren County in 1850. Attorney in Warren County in 1860. Owned twenty enslaved persons in Warren County in 1860. Member of the United States House of Representatives from the Third Congressional District of Kentucky from 1861 to 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 2, p. 76A.

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

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 1, p. 134.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 1, p. 436B

"Grider, Henry - Biographical Information,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, accessed December 25, 2016, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000455.

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Grider, Henry. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208494 (November 12, 2026).

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