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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-0001-004-1334 BR12-79

Newport, Campbell 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. William Gearty (Cincinnati, Ohio railroad passenger agent) N00007773 Categories: People

Cincinnati, Ohio, teamster. Native of Oldenburg. Married to Sophia Gearty. Father of Sophia Gearty, Frederick Gearty, and William Gearty. Teamster in Cincinnati in 1860. Served as a Home Guards lieutenant in 1862.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton, Cincinnati, p. 136. KYR-0001-004-1334. KYR-0001-004-1050. James Russell Hallam (Kenton Co/Campbell Co attorney) N00006448 1818-10-16 1895-02-15 Categories: People

Newport, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Washington County, Pennsylvania, native. Son of Charles Hallam and Rosanna Hagen Hallam. Married to Clarina M. Bailey Hallam in Fayetteville, Tennessee, on January 21, 1841. Married to Martha P. Robinson Hallam on January 6, 1863. Father of Henry C. Hallam, Theodore Hallam, James R. Hallam, Jr., Orrin Hallam, and Frank Hallam. Read law at Nashville in 1836. Admitted to the bar in 1842. Delegate from Grant County to the Whig Party Convention of Kentucky in 1852. Assistant elector in Kentucky's 10th congressional district for the presidential election of 1852. Attorney in Newport in 1860. Sent to Camp Chase in 1862. Commonwealth's attorney pro tempore from c1864 to 1865 in the Kenton Circuit Court.

Relationships Legal: William Gearty (Cincinnati, Ohio railroad passenger agent) Legal: John Flavel Fisk, Sr. (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Military: Charles William Brandon Allison (Union soldier; commander of Camp Chase prison (Ohio)) Legal: Henry C. Gassaway (Newport, Kentucky, produce dealer and provost marshal ) Political: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Social: Simeon Sheppard (Kenton County) Legal: Kenton Circuit Court Legal: William S. Johnston (Covington, Kentucky, resident.) Economic: Kenton Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Owen County, District 1, p. 49. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 103. "Whig State Convention," The Louisville Daily Courier, February 26, 1852, p. 2. The Louisville Daily Courier, October 15, 1861, p. 2. Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002. Nashville, TN: Tennessee State Library and Archives. Microfilm. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), p. 460. Find A Grave, "Judge James Russell Hallam (October 16, 1818-February 15, 1895)," Memorial #33728805, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33728805/j-hall (accessed May 22, 2017). KYR-0001-004-1393. Newport, Kentucky P00000862 Categories: Places

Co-seat of Campbell County, Kentucky, along with Alexandria, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River and Licking River.

39.0914, -84.4958 Will Frank Steely, "Newport" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 680. Campbell Circuit Court O00000361 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 9th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): S. M. Moore and Joseph Doniphan. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): William Evans Arthur (1856-1862) and R. B. Carpenter (1862-1865). Clerk(s): Gus Artsman and Benjamin Beall.

Relationships Legal: F. S. Grismier (Newport, Campbell Co, KY, soldier) Legal: George Knorr (Newport, Kentucky farmer and felon) Legal: George Herendon (Campbell County Election Officer) Legal: John Wiggins Flora (Campbell County, KY, judge, farmer, Election Officer) Legal: William Gearty (Cincinnati, Ohio railroad passenger agent) Economic: Gustavus Artsman (Newport, Kentucky, attorney, and circuit court clerk) Familial: Austin Morris (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer) Familial: George Washington Carmack (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer) Familial: Benjamin J. Beall (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer, clerk pro tem, and JP; captain 10th & 14th KY Cav CSA) Familial: Richard B. Carpenter, Jr. (Covington, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney) Legal: John S. M. Gruder () Legal: George Washington Carmack (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Jacob Carmack (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: William Wright (Campbell County (composite biography)) Legal: Thomas J. Daniel (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: John H. Smith (Campbell County, KY, blacksmith) Legal: William Lees (Campbell County, KY, laborer) Legal: Timothy McDaniel (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: Thomas Jones (Campbell County, KY, farmer and deputy court clerk) Legal: John Henderson, Jr. (Campbell County, KY, riverboat pilot and farmer) Legal: John Hayden Nelson (Campbell County, KY, attorney) Legal: J. H. Darr (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: James H. Scott (Kenton County, KY, farmer) Legal: William C. Byrd (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: John H. Byrd (Campbell County (composite biography)) Legal: Luther Dayton (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: John F. Traver (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: William Dones (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: Jonathan Horsfall (Campbell County, KY, jailer) Legal: George Richard Fearons (Campbell County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: John White Stevenson (Covington, Kentucky, attorney and politician) Legal: John Kinney (Campbell County, KY, farmer) Legal: Benjamin J. Beall (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer, clerk pro tem, and JP; captain 10th & 14th KY Cav CSA) Legal: Richard B. Carpenter, Jr. (Covington, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney) Legal: Fridolin "Fred" Brutsche (Newport, Kentucky, shopkeeper and distiller.)

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862, Legislative Document Series, No. 24 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-06. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12. Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50. Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky 1864-11-07 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": 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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Newport Ky. Nov 7. 1864 Gov. Bramlette Dear Sir,

Sometime ago, I forwarded Petition's &c for remission of fine assessed of $75, assessed against William Girty, by the Campbell Circuit Court at its late Feby. Term for carrying concealed weapons

The facts are set out in a record accompanying the petition, & I think it will be seen the whole thing was a mere fourth of July Spree, & that injustice was done Girty.

If you have not acted on the matter I beg to call your attention to it. Later Sec. Treasury, Speaker House, & Senator) mentioned the matter to you a few days since

Yrs respectfully J. R. Hallam

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Campbell Cir Ct vs Wm Girty $75 Remitted 8th Nov/64

Carrying concealed --