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Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Henry County, Kentucky, native. Son of William Durrett and Elizabeth Rawlings Durrett. Married to Elizabeth Humphreys Durrett on December 16, 1852. Father of Lily Bates Durrett and William T. Durrett. Attended Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky. Graduated from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1849. Graduated from law school at the University of Louisville in Louisville in 1850. Practiced law in Louisville from 1850 to 1880. Owned and edited the Louisville Courier from 1857 to 1859.

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Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson, Louisville, p. 82.

Vital Statistics Original Death Certificates – Microfilm (1911-1964), KDLA, Roll #7016157, Jefferson County Deaths, file #24504.

James R. Bentley, "Reuben Thomas Durrett" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 275-76.

Citation

Durrett, Reuben Thomas. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210343 (November 12, 2026).

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Petition
Ashley Williams to Thomas E. Bramlette
Petition
Hamilton Pope et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette
1863-10-24

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