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James Simpson (Winchester, Ky, judge, attorney, politician, businessman)

b. 1796-03-16 d. 1876-05-01

Clark County, Kentucky, judge, banker, and politician. Native of Belfast, Ireland. Son of James Simpson, Sr. Married to Mary L. Caldwell Simpson on February 22, 1825. Father of Fanny I. Simpson, Mary H. Simpson, Carrie Simpson, Isaac P. Simpson, and James D. Simpson. Studied law under Samuel Hanson in Clark County, Kentucky. Attorney in partnership with Chilton Allen in Winchester from 1817 to 1827. Circuit court judge from 1835 to 1847. Associate justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals from 1847 to 1860. Owned nine enslaved persons in Clark County in 1850. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Clark County from 1860 to 1864. Owned thirteen enslaved persons in Winchester in 1860. Partner with William Winn and Robert N. Winn in the Deposit Bank of Winn, Simpson & Co. in Clark County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 45A.

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

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester, p. 879.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester, p. 34.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester, p. 140A.

H. Levin, Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: Lewis Publish Company, 1897), 78.

"James (1796-1876)," Find A Grave, Memorial 100539928, accessed November 3, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100539928.

Citation

Simpson, James. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209481 (November 12, 2026).

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