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Lazarus Whitehead Powell (Henderson County, Kentucky, attorney and politician)

b. 1812-10-06 d. 1867-07-03

Henderson County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Married to Harriet Anne Jennings Powell. Father of James Henry Powell, John Rowan Powell, Anne Powell, Charles J. Powell, and Richard Powell. Graduated from the St. Joseph College in Nelson County, Kentucky, in 1833. Studied law at Transylvania University in Lexington. Admitted to the bar in 1835. Attorney in Henderson County, Kentucky. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Henderson County in 1836. Member of the Democratic Party. Presidential Elector for the Democratic Party in 1844. Attorney in Henderson County in 1850. Owned sixty-nine enslaved persons in Henderson County in 1850. Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1851 to 1855. Member of the United States Senate for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1859 to 1865. Attorney in Henderson County in 1860. Owned fifty-six enslaved persons in Henderson County in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Town of Henderson, District 1, p. 271A.

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

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

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division No 1, p. 35.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division No 1, p. 155A-B.

“Powell, Lazarus Whitehead,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000481, accessed January 10, 2017.

Charles Lanman, Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States (Washington: J. M. Morrison, 1887), 403.

“The Death of Hon. Lazarus W. Powell,” Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), July 6, 1897.

“Powell, Lazarus Whitehead,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 731-732.

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Powell, Lazarus Whitehead. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213813 (November 12, 2026).

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