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Warner Lewis Underwood (Warren County, Kentucky, attorney, planter, and politician.)

b. 1808-08-07 d. 1872-03-12

Warren County, Kentucky, attorney, planter, and politician. Virginia native. Married to Lucy Craig Henry Underwood in 1831. Father of Frances "Fanny" Underwood, Juliet "Jupe" Underwood, Lucy "Lute" Underwood, Johanna "Josie" Underwood, Warner Underwood, Henry Underwood, John Underwood, and Mary Underwood. Graduated from the University of Virginia in 1829. Admitted to the Kentucky bar in 1830. Resident of Texas in 1833. Attorney general of the Eastern District of Texas in 1834. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1848. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1849 to 1853. Owned twenty enslaved persons in Warren County in 1850. Member of the United States House of Representatives from 1853 to 1857. Owned twenty-eight enslaved persons in Warren County in 1860. Consul in Glasgow, Scotland, for the United States of America from 1862 to September 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 2, p. 65A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 2.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 1, p. 855.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, District 1, p. 439B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, Bowling Green Precinct, p. 31B.

Nancy D. Baird, "Josie Underwood's Civil War: An Introduction," The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, vol. 112, no. 3 (Summer 2014), 335-49.

Nancy D. Baird, "Underwood, Warner Lewis," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 906-7.

KYR-0004-033-0021.

Citation

Underwood, Warner Lewis. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212190 (November 12, 2026).

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