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John Kemp Goodloe (Woodford Co State Senator)

b. 1823-02-15 d. 1892-02-12

Woodford County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Columbia, Missouri, native. Son of Kemp Minor Goodloe and Harriet Harris Goodloe Isett. Married Ann W. Lockett Goodloe. Married to Mary L. Shouse Goodloe. Read law with Thomas B. Monroe, Sr. in Frankfort, Kentucky. Enlisted in the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment during the Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1847. Wounded at the battle of Buena Vista, Mexico, on February 23, 1847. Attorney in Woodford County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Woodford County from 1855 to 1861. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Woodford County from 1861 to 1865. Appointed United States District Attorney of the Eastern District of Louisiana on December 20, 1865.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, District No. 1, p. 425 B; H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 231-36; Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1878), 764; Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of America From December 5, 1864, to February 6, 1866, Inclusive Vol. XIV, Part I (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1867), 312-13; Find A Grave, "Judge John Kemp Goodloe (1823-1892)," Memorial #100859301, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100859301 (accessed November 17, 2017).

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Goodloe, John Kemp. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213174 (November 12, 2026).

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