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Lawrence Strother Trimble (Paducah congressman)

b. 1826-08-26 d. 1904-08-09

Paducah, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Fleming County, Kentucky, native. Son of James Trimble and Harriet Tripplet Trimble. Admitted to the bar in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1844. Practiced law in Paducah after 1847. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Paducah from 1851 to 1852. Circuit Judge of the First Judicial District of Kentucky from 1856 to 1859. Elector on the Democratic Party ticket of Stephen A. Douglas in 1860. President of the Ohio and New Orleans Railroad Company from 1860 to 1865. Member of the House of Representatives of the United States from the First Congressional District of Kentucky from March 4, 1865 to March 3, 1871.

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Bibliography

"Trimble, Lawrence Strother (1825 - 1904)," in The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=T000375 (accessed September 26, 2017); The Biographical Encyclopedia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century (Cincinnati, OH: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 447-48; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, District No. 2, p. 97.

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Trimble, Lawrence Strother. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214847 (November 12, 2026).

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