Person

William P. D. Bush (Hancock County, KY, attorney)

b. 1823-03-14 d. 1904-06-26

Hancock County, Kentucky, attorney. Hardin County, Kentucky, native. Son of Christopher Bush. Married to Carrie V. Ghiselin Bush in Hancock County, Kentucky, on July 22, 1852. Father of Carrie Bush, Finlay Bush, Sidney J. Bush, and Susan G. Bush. Teacher in LaRue County, Kentucky. Appointed deputy clerk of the county and circuit courts of Hancock County in 1845. Admitted to the bar in 1846. Served in the 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the U.S.-Mexico War as second lieutenant from October 6, 1847, to July 25, 1848. Attorney in Hancock County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Hancock County from 1853 to 1854. Farmer and attorney in Hancock County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Hancock County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Hancock County from 1861 to 1862, and 1865 to 1866.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 271B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 980.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 85B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Frankfort, Franklin County, p. 137A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Hancock County Marriages, Film 000495729.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Mexican War Veterans (Frankfort: John D. Woods, Public Printer, 1889), 132.

Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Begun and Held in the City of Frankfort, on Saturday, the Thirty First Day of December, in the Year of Our Lord, 1853, and of the Commonwealth, the Sixty-Second (Frankfort: A. G. Hodges, State Printer, 1853), 4.

Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Begun and Held in the Town of Frankfort, on Monday, the Second Day of September, in the Year of Our Lord 1861, and of the Commonwealth the Seventieth (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1861), 4.

Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Begun and Held in the City of Frankfort, on Monday, the Fourth Day of December, in the Year of Our Lord 1865, and of the Commonwealth the Seventy-Fourth (Frankfort: State Printing Office, 1865), 4.

H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 287-90.

Anderson Chenault Quisenberry, “History by Illustration: Gen. Zachary Taylor, and the Mexican War,” Register of Kentucky State Historical Society 9, no. 26 (1911): 38.

“Death’s Hand Laid Upon Judge William P. D. Bush,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), June 27, 1904, p. 10.

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Bush, William P. D.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210680 (November 12, 2026).

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