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Grant Green (Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, attorney, Kentucky Secretary of State, and Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts)

b. 1826-02-03 d. 1898-07-06

Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and auditor. Henderson County, Kentucky, native. Son of John Green and Martha Dixon Green. Married to Catharine "Kitty" Smith Overton Green in Frankfort, Kentucky, on February 28, 1855. Father of Henry D. Green, Eliza O. Green, and Grant Green, Jr. Deputy Sheriff of Henderson County, Kentucky, from 1848 to 1851. Clerk in Henderson County in 1850. Household owned eighteen enslaved persons in Henderson County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Henderson County from 1851 to 1852. Attorney in Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned eight enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1860. Auditor of public accounts of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1860 to 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Henderson, District 1, p. 280A-B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, District 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, District 1, p. 238.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, District 1, p. 488B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 96B.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War) NARA RG 110, Franklin County, KY, July 1863, p. 5.

"Grant Green Dead," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), July 7, 1898, p. 9.

“Grant Green (1826-1898),” Find A Grave, Memorial 63467817, accessed May 24, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63467817.

Citation

Green, Grant. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212407 (November 12, 2026).

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