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Lucian Anderson (Graves County, KY, attorney and politician)

b. 1824-06-23 d. 1898-10-18

Graves County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Kentucky native. Son of John Anderson and Nancy Davenport Anderson. Married to Ann R. Lockridge Anderson in 1846. Father of Harry C. Anderson, Nancy A. Anderson, Herbert L. Anderson, Robert L. Anderson, Mayes Anderson, and Lillian Anderson. Admitted to the bar in Kentucky in 1845. Attorney in Graves County in 1850. Household owned eleven enslaved persons in Graves County in 1850. Presidential elector for the Whig Party from the 1st District of Kentucky in 1852. Member of the House of Representatives for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Graves County from 1855 to 1857. Attorney in Graves County in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Graves County in 1860. Member of the United States House of Representatives from the First Congressional District of Kentucky from 1863 to 1865. Delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1864. Accused of extorting citizens in Paducah in July and August 1864.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, District 2, p. 363B.

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

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, Mayfield, p. 332.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 53A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, Mayfield, p. 219B.

“Investigation of General Paine’s Administration at Paducah,” Louisville Weekly Journal (Louisville, KY), October 4, 1864, p. 1.

Berry Craig, "Anderson, Lucian," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), p. 20.

Berry Craig and Dieter C. Ullrich, Unconditional Unionist: The Hazardous Life of Lucian Anderson, Kentucky Congressman (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2016).

Citation

Anderson, Lucian. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214965 (November 12, 2026).

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