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Thomas J. Frazier (Breathitt County, Kentucky, postmaster, politician, judge, and Register of the Land Office)

b. 1820?

Breathitt County, Kentucky, postmaster, politician, judge, and Register of the Land Office. Tennessee native. Postmaster for Breathitt in Breathitt County, Kentucky, from December 26, 1840, to December 5, 1843. Member of the House of Representatives for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Breathitt and Morgan Counties from 1843 to 1846. Merchant and hotel keep in Breathitt County in 1850. Hired three enslaved persons in Breathitt County in 1850. Presiding judge of the Breathitt County Court in 1854. Register of the Land Office in Frankfort from 1859 to 1863. Resident of Frankfort in 1860. Member of the Democratic Party.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Breathitt County, District 1, p. 32A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Breathitt County, District 1, p. 657.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 254.

Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed at the Session which was Begun and Held in the City of Frankfort, on Monday, the Fifth Day of December 1859, and Ended on Monday, the Fifth Day of March, 1860, Volume 1, (Frankfort, KY: Yeoman Office, 1860), xxi.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. II (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 638.

John Livingston, Livingston's Law Register: A Guide for Every Man of Business, and Hand-Book of Useful Information, (New York: Monthly Law Magazine), 344.

Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (1843), December 30, 1843 - March 2, 1844, (Frankfort: A. G. Hodges, 1844), 4.

"Letter from Washington," Louisville Courier (Louisville, KY), January 4, 1859, p. 2.

"The Secession Ticket," Louisville Journal (Louisville, KY), July 28, 1863, p. 1.

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Frazier, Thomas J.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214925 (November 12, 2026).

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