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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.
Accused [Unknown] Gilbert of dealing cards in Louisville in 1865.
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Accused [Unknown] Gilbert of dealing cards in Louisville in 1865.
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Accused of dealing faro in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1865.
Cumberland County, Kentucky, physician, farmer, businessman, and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Jane M. Haggard. Father of Ben Rice Haggard, Thomas P. Haggard, Henry B. Haggard, Mary B. Haggard, Clarence R. Haggard, and Irene S. Haggard. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Cumberland County, Kentucky, from 1844 to 1847. Physician in Cumberland County in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in 1850. Assistant marshal of the slave census of the Cumberland Division in 1850. Farmer and physician in Cumberland County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Cumberland County in 1860. Served in the 5th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from January 1862 to February 1863. President of the Indian Creek and Jack's Knob, Iron, Coal, Salt, Lead, Lumber, Oil, and Manufacturing Company in 1865.
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Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.
th 1865
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D r Sir
You will see the petition of of us organized in this City, and it was not because He wanted to Evade Any responsibility. But to make $100 -- per month, and have 1/8, of the proffits arising from the yeald of the oil, This was the Cause of his absence, from Ky -- His family needed Bread, & He wanted to make it as I think honestly, These vultures, are still after him, and his securities, they are mad because you cut off their fees. Some time Since -- and they are trying to annoy him & his friends, They Cant reach, you but can, make Gilberts path, a little rugid, just now "Bartons Statement, is reliable no doubt" Gilbert is now ready to return to his field of operations in Tennessee
if he can be released from this flock of Blood Suckers -- Give him a Faro dealing is Concerned He has not been engaged in the business since You released him some months ago, as He & his securities say, and I have no doubt they tell the truth about it imagine -- for a moment, the condition of the inocent man -- ignorant of the law, and Knows that He is inocent of doing rong, but knowing that He is liable to be annoyed by men who will take pleasure in doing So,, and the only thing that He has don, was to deal Faro -- for which offence, He asked pardon and you did pardon him -- Has not delt Faro Since but has been -- as the petion shows required to give Bail, & greatly troubled, wipe the whole affair out, so for as you ^can^ release the Securities, & Let Gilbert up. all right, on that Subject, to date, & then I will go his bail -- & not ask you to interpose in his favour --
Yr friend
Gov r we want this remission to bear date, the
D, R, Haggard