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Richard "Dick" Rowan Bolling (Kentucky attorney and court clerk)

b. 1827-05-09 d. 1880-12-06

Boyle County, Kentucky, attorney and court clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Mary “Eddy” Scott Bolling. Studied law in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, and was admitted to the bar. Member of the Democratic Party and Union Party. Doorkeeper for the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1854. Assistant clerk of Boyle County Court and Boyle Circuit Court. Clerk of the Boyle County Court in 1856. Delegate to the Democratic Presidential Convention that nominated James Buchanan in 1856. Unsuccessful candidate as a Douglas Democrat for the clerk of the Court of Appeals of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1861. Deputy clerk of the Court of Appeals of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1856 to 1866. Clerk of the Court of Appeals of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1856 for a short time following the death of Rankin R. Revill.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Journal of the House of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Frankfort: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 789.

“Death of Col. Bolling,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky), December 7, 1880, p. 1. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort District 1, p. 119.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 8, p. 84.

Citation

Bolling, Richard "Dick" Rowan. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212768 (November 12, 2026).

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