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Richard Clough Anderson, III (Frankfort state rep)

b. 1829 d. 1878

Frankfort, Kentucky, attorney, planter, and legislator. Louisville native. Son of Larz Anderson and Catherine Longworth Anderson. Married to Agnes Norval Anderson. Father of Kate L. Anderson, Sally Anderson, and Richard C. Anderson, IV. Graduated from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, in 1849. Studied law at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Farmer in Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned twenty-three enslaved people in Franklin County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Franklin County from 1861 to 1863.

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Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District No. 1, p. 61; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District No. 1, p. 3 Arthur Meredyth Burke, ed., The Prominent Families of the United States of America, (London: The Sackville Press Ltd., 1908), 59; Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1882), 241; Alexis Cope, History of The Ohio State University, vol. 1 (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 1920), 26; Find A Grave, "Richard Clough Anderson, III (1829-1878)," Memorial #90401689, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90401689 (accessed November 20, 2017).

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III, Richard Clough Anderson,. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209540 (November 12, 2026).

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