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George Sea Shanklin (Jessamine County, Kentucky, state representative, attorney, commonwealth's attorney, and US representative)

b. 1807-12-23 d. 1883-04-01

Jessamine County, Kentucky, state representative, attorney, commonwealth's attorney, and United States representative. Jessamine County, Kentucky, native. Son of Robert Shanklin and Mary M. Sea Shanklin. Married to Martha L. West Shanklin in Jessamine County, Kentucky, on February 20, 1840. Married to Nancy Ann Veach Shanklin. Married to Mary Price Taylor Shanklin in Jessamine County, Kentucky, on August 29, 1859. Step father of James B. Taylor. Father of George Shanklin and Elliot Shanklin. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Jessamine County from 1838 to 1844. Attorney in Jessamine County in 1850. Owned nineteen enslaved persons in Jessamine County in 1850. Commonwealth's attorney for the 13th Judicial District of Kentucky in 1854. Attorney in Jessamine County in 1860. Owned thirty enslaved persons, including Pleasant, in Jessamine County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Jessamine County from 1861 to 1865. Member of the United States House of Representatives from the 7th Congressional District of Kentucky from 1865 to 1867.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, District 2, p. 76 B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, District 2, p. 109-110.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, p. 109.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, p. 306A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, District 1, p. 5A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jessamine County Marriages, Film 007724996.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994042, Jessamine County Births, p. 2.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994042, Jessamine County Marriages, p. 119.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 7019184, Fayette County Deaths, #788.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 396.

"Shanklin, George Sea," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, accessed December 12, 2022, https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S000283.

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Shanklin, George Sea. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32280664 (November 12, 2026).

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