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Thomas B. Cochran (Shelby County, KY, attorney and Lt Col 2nd KY Cav. USA)

b. 1827? d. 1873-01-21

Shelby County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Spencer County, Kentucky, native. Married to Margaret E. Thorpe in Shelby County on June 22, 1852. Attended Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Studied law under and entered into a partnership with Martin D. McHenry. Law partner with his brother, John B. Cochran. Attorney in Shelby County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Shelby County in 1860. Served in the 2nd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as lieutenant colonel from September 27, 1861, to November 24, 1862. Senator for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1865 to 1867.

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Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District No. 1, p. 238.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District No. 1, p. 274A.

Thomas B. Cochran and Margaret E. Thorpe, Kentucky, County Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Shelby County, June 22, 1852, (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 46.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1867), 915.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1877), 668.

“Thomas B. Cochran: Death of the Chancellor of Louisville Yesterday--Action of the Courts and Bar,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky), 22 January 1873, p. 4.

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Cochran, Thomas B.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208564 (November 12, 2026).

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