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John Boyd Huston (Winchester, Kentucky, and Lexington, Kentucky, attorney and politician)

b. 1813-10-01 d. 1881-11-14

Clark County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Nelson County, Kentucky, native. Son of James Huston and Mary McKee Huston. Married to Mary J. Allen Huston on September 21, 1836. Married to Elizabeth Jackson Huston on December 21, 1854. Graduate of Centre College in 1833. Teacher at Walnut Hill in Fayette County, Kentucky. Assistant instructor at Centre College in Danville. Studied law under Judge Daniel Mayers and Joshua F. Bell. Graduate of Transylvania University in Lexington in 1835. Attorney in Winchester from 1837 to 1864. Member of the Whig Party. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Clark County in 1839, from 1855 to 1859, and from 1861 to 1863. Member of the Democratic Party. Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1855 to 1857.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 41B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester, p. 886.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, Ward 1, p. 192B.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1878), 130, 774.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1878), 364.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 298-99.

H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 595-96.

"John Boyd Huston (1813-1881)," Find A Grave, Memorial 48379493, accessed September 8, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48379493.

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Huston, John Boyd. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211159 (November 12, 2026).

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