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Rufus K. Williams (Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals)

b. 1816? d. 1889-07-24

Graves County, Kentucky, attorney, soldier, and judge. Delaware native. Married to Mahala Williams. Father of Ann Williams, Rufus Williams, Jr., Mary Williams, Martha Williams, Augusta Williams, Emma Williams, Kemble Williams, Emily Williams, Harriet Williams, and Maggie Williams. Delegate to the 1860 Democratic National Convention backing John C. Breckinridge. Circuit court judge of the 1st Judicial District of Kentucky from 1860 to 1862. Delegate to the 1861 Border State Convention. Judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals from 1862 to 1870. Chief justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals from 1868 to 1870.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 272.

“An Eminent Jurist Dead,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), July 25, 1889.

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.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306.

H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 94.

Citation

Williams, Rufus K.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210459 (January 24, 2026).

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