Thomas Alexander Marshall (KY Chief Justice)
b. 1794-01-15 d. 1871-04-17
Kentucky, attorney. Woodford County native. Married to Eliza Price Marshall. Father of Thomas A. Marshall and Charles Marshall. Graduated Yale College in 1815. Practiced law in Frankfort and Paris. Served in Kentucky House of Representatives for Bourbon County. Member of Congress from 1831 to 1835. Professor at Transylvania Law School from 1836 to 1849. Judge of the State Court of Appeals from 1835 to 1856, and in 1866. Served as Chief Justice of Kentucky.
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Bibliography
H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 174. Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Embracing Biographies of Many of the Prominent Men of the State (Chicago: John M. Gresham Company, 1896), 280.
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Marshall, Thomas Alexander. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210370 (November 12, 2026).
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