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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867 KYR-0001-004-0112 BR8-164 to BR8-165

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Thomas Elliott Bramlette (KY governor 1863-67, atty, D.A., col 3rd KY Inf) N001000 1817-01-03 1875-01-12 Categories: People

Twenty-third governor of Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Cumberland County, Kentucky, native. Married to Sallie Travis Bramlette in September 1837. Father of James T. Bramlette, William L. Bramlette, Eugene Bramlette, and Corrina Bell Bramlette. Practiced law in Clinton County, Kentucky, and Columbia, Kentucky. Represented Cumberland and Clinton counties in the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1841 to 1843. Commonwealth's attorney of the 8th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1848 to 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in 1850. Circuit judge of the 6th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1856 to 1861. Owned nine enslaved persons in 1860. Served as colonel of the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from 1861 to 1862. District attorney of the United States District Court for Kentucky in 1863. Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 1, 1863, to September 3, 1867. Owned law firm of Bramlette & Van Winkle in partnership with Ephraim L. Van Winkle.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 181A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 335 (p. 2 of 2 on microfilm). Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, The Town of Columbia 1st Division, p. 13 (p. 2 of 3 on microfilm). Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 83B. Ross A. Webb, “Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867)” in Lowell H. Harrison, ed., Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 93-97 Lowell H. Harrison, "Bramlette, Thomas Elliott" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 112-13. Franklin Gorin (Jefferson Co, Ky, attorney) N00000330 1798-05-03 1877-12-08 Categories: People

Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney. Barren County, Kentucky, native. Son of John Gorin and Elizabeth Franklin Gorin. Father of Melvina M. Gorin, Franklin Gorin, Underwood Gorin. Married to Frances C. Boardman Gorin in Davidson County, Tennessee, on July 30, 1841. Father of Alice A. Gorin. Married to Deborah P. Campbell Gorin in Warren County, Kentucky, on January 23, 1852. Father of Harry C. Gorin and Anna Gorin. Admitted to the bar in January 1820. Resident in Barren County in 1830. Owned three enslaved persons in Barren County in 1830. Owned Mammoth Cave from 1838 to 1840. Resident in Barren County in 1840. Owned four enslaved persons in Barren County in 1840. Attorney in partnership with John Bell in Nashville, Tennessee. Attorney in Barren County in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Barren County in 1850. Attorney in partnership with Addison M. Gazlay at Gorin and Gazlay in Louisville from 1859 to 1863. Owned five enslaved persons in Jefferson County in 1860. Attorney in partnership with Addison M. Gazlay and Jack Fry in 1865.

Relationships Legal: Joshua Tevis (Louisville, KY, State Rep & US District Atto, Col 10th Ky Cav (USA)) Economic: Andrew Jackson Ballard (Louisville, KY, clerk of US Dist. Ct.) Legal: Andrew Jackson Ballard (Louisville, KY, clerk of US Dist. Ct.) Political: James Harrison (Jefferson County, Kentucky) Political: John Roberts (Louisville attorney) Political: Robert Jackson Elliott (Louisville, Kentucky, city attorney and councilman) Political: Charles P. Rudd (Jefferson County Attorney) Political: William Alexander Hauser (Louisville, KY, attorney) Political: Wilkins George Anderson (Jefferson County) Political: William Fontaine Bullock (Louisville, KY, attorney & judge) Political: H. C. Lindell (Louisville, Kentucky) Political: Logan Adams Wood (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, newspaper editor, bookbinder, and politician) Political: Charles Ripley (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Nathaniel Wolfe (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, Ky rep & senator) Political: Alfred Harris (Louisville lawyer) Political: Isaac R. Greene (Louisville attorney) Political: Isaac D. Stone (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney.) Political: Edwin S. Craig (Louisville, KY, Commonwealth’s attorney 7th district & attorney) Political: William W. Fry (Louisville, Kentucky) Political: George William Caruth (Louisville, Kentucky) Political: Byron Bacon (Louisville, KY, attorney) Political: James Guthrie Coke (Louisville Attorney) Political: Samuel Smith Nicholas (Louisville attorney) Political: Patrick Joyes (Louisville Attorney) Political: Reuben Thomas Durrett (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Samuel Russell (Louisville banker and attorney.) Political: James A. Beattie (Louisville attorney) Political: Thomas Ware Gibson (Louisville attorney. ) Political: Thomas W. Riley (ex-Mayor of Louisville) Political: James Speed Pirtle (Louisville Banker and Attorney.) Political: William Poindexter Thomasson (Indiana attorney) Political: John Graham Simrall (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Charles T. Taylor (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and French consular) Political: William Mix (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Isaac Caldwell (Louisville attorney) Political: Samuel S. English (Louisville attorney) Political: Charles B. Cotton (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney.) Political: James Speed (U.S. Atty. General, Louisville, KY atty & state senator) Political: Joshua Tevis (Louisville, KY, State Rep & US District Atto, Col 10th Ky Cav (USA)) Political: Joseph G. Wilson (Louisville KY attorney) Political: John Watson Barr (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Political: Joseph Bryson Kinkead (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and US Navy midshipman) Political: Thomas Alexander Marshall (KY Chief Justice) Political: Samuel Stone Bush (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: William C. Wood (Louisville, KY, attorney) Social: John A. M. Foree (Louisville, Kentucky, farmer and attorney) Social: James Harris (Mattoon, Illinois, and Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Social: R. H. Cochrell (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Social: M. S. Fields (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Social: Francis Maguire (Louisville atto.) Social: John Fry (Louisville attorney) Social: William W. Shaw (Louisville attorney) Social: Andrew Jackson Ballard (Louisville, KY, clerk of US Dist. Ct.) Social: Joseph P. Gailbreath (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Social: C. K. Fairfax (Louisville & Richmond attorney) Social: Caleb Wallace Logan (Jefferson County, KY, attorney & judge) Social: John N. Mattingly (Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney) Social: Jefferson Brown (AKA Jeff. Brown, Louisville/New Albany attorney) Social: Richard Hilaire Rousseau (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney) Social: Samuel Ayers Atchison, Jr. (Louisville, KY, attorney/Democrat (JR).) Social: Martin Bijur (Louisville, KY, attorney & commwlth atty) Social: Frank Yocum (Jefferson Co, Ky, gardener )

Fifth Manuscript Census of the United States (1830), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, p. 129. Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, p. 157. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Division 1, p. 394B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Glasgow Division 1, p. 190. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 7, p. 525. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p. 286B. Find A Grave, "Franklin Gorin (1798-1877)," Memorial #7181990, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7181990 (accessed February 11, 2020). Tennessee Marriage Records (1780-2002), Tennessee State Archives, Nashville, Tennessee, Davidson County Marriages, p. 75. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Warren County Marriages, Film #000339890. Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1859-1860 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1860), 102. Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 102. Mary Young Southard and Ernest C. Miller, eds., Who's Who in Kentucky: A Biographical Assembly of Notable Kentuckians (Louisville: The Standard Printing Co., 1936), 538. E. Polk Johnson, A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry and Modern Activities, Vol. III (Chicago and New York: Lewis Publishing, 1912), 1673-74. Edwards’ Annual Directory to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business Firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville for 1865-6 (Louisville: Maxwell & Co., 1866), 323. KYR-0001-004-0364. Andrew Monroe (Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) N00004897 1820? 1868? Categories: People

Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and judge. Frankfort, Kentucky, native. Son of Judge Ben Monroe. Attorney in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1852 to 1855. Member of the Louisville City Council for the 5th Ward from 1856 to 1857. President of the Louisville Board of Councilmen in 1857. Judge of the Jefferson County Court from 1858 to 1866. Mentioned in the Provisional Government of the State of Kentucky Journal on December 11, 1861 as a delegate option for Provisional Congress.

Relationships Political: Abraham R. Groves, Sr. (Jefferson County, Kentucky, physician, farmer, and justice of the peace) Legal: Franklin Gorin (Jefferson Co, Ky, attorney) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: T. E. Dennis (Louisville, Kentucky) Political: Joseph Clement (Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace) Political: William Emmett Simms (Kentucky Confederate soldier and politician) Political: Thomas Johnson (Montgomery Co, KY, farmer, prov Congress, maj & lt col KY Mounted Rifles CSA) Political: Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America Political: Confederate States of America Political: Provisional Council Political: George W. Morris (Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant and justice of the peace) Political: Charles M. Thruston (Jefferson County, Kentucky, court clerk and ageny) Legal: Charles M. Thruston (Jefferson County, Kentucky, court clerk and ageny)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, 6th Ward City of Louisville, p. 119. "Andrew Monroe" in The Encyclopedia of Louisville, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001), 625. "Judge Andrew Monroe," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, Ky.), May 29, 1868, p. 4. KYR-0004-033-0023. Louisville, Kentucky P00000337 Categories: Places

Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2527, -85.7585 "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179. Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1863-10-30 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Oct 30 1863 Gov. Bramlette:

I unhesitatingly join in the request to your excellency, so universally expressed by this community, for the pardon of Col F. Gorin.

The act for which he is indicted was committed under the excitement of the moment, without any malice, and I am sure no man regretted it more or sooner, than Col Gorin.

You know Mr Gorin's standing, character and age, and no representations in this regard are necessary

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from me.

Very Respy Andrew Monroe