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George Washington Williams (Hancock County, Kentucky, attorney)

b. 1814-11-27 d. 1890-09-29

Hancock County, Kentucky, attorney. Breckinridge County, Kentucky, native. Married to Mary W. Hamilton Williams. Father of Hamilton Williams, Ione Williams Baker, James Russell Williams, Mary Ruth Williams Crutcher, and Hugh A. Williams. Teacher in Helena, Arkansas, in 1837. Studied law with the firm of Thomasson and Boon in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1838. Admitted to the bar in 1840 in Hawesville, Kentucky. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Hancock and Ohio counties from 1850 to 1851. Owned four enslaved people in Hancock County in 1850. Unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1857. Elector for the Democratic presidential ticket of James Buchanan in 1856. Owned eight enslaved persons in Hancock County in 1860.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County.

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

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 40.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 3.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Davies County, Owensboro, Ward 1, p. 257.

H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 319-322.

An Illustrated Historical Atlas of Daviess County, Ky. : carefully compiled from personal examinations and surveys (Utica: Leo McDonough & Co., 1876).

Tallaferro P. Shaffner, ed., Kentucky Annual State Register, 1847 (Louisville: Morton and Griswold, 1847), 93.

Collins’ Historical Sketches of Kentucky: History of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Collins & Company, 1878), 305.

Find A Grave, "George Washington WIlliams (November 27, 1814 - September 29, 1890)," Memorial #57361824, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=57361824&ref=acom (accessed June 27, 2017).

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Williams, George Washington. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209250 (November 12, 2026).

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