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Thomas H. Corbett (Ballard Co, Kentucky, attorney, Comwlth atty 1st Jud Distr 1860-61, State House Rep)

b. 1830-01-08 d. 1902-05-09

Blandville, Kentucky, attorney, commonwealth's attorney, and politician. Hickman County, Kentucky, native. Married to Rebecca Coil Corbett on December 22, 1853. Father of Jacob Corbett. Attended the Kentucky Military Institute. Studied law under Judge Bigger of Blandville. Admitted to the bar in 1852. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky representing Ballard and McCracken Counties from 1855 to 1857. Commonwealth's Attorney for the 1st Judicial District in Ballard County from 1860 to 1861. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky representing Ballard and McCracken Counties from 1865 to 1875.

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Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard, Blandsville, p. 7.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1860, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 355-59.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994027, Ballard County Marriages.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 537.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 698-99.

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Corbett, Thomas H.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209585 (November 12, 2026).

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