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                    <p xml:id='OTPS32205846P0'>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 &amp; Van Winkle in partnership with Ephraim L. Van Winkle.
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 181A.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, District No. 1, p. 335 (p. 2 of 2 on microfilm).<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, The Town of Columbia 1st Division, p. 13 (p. 2 of 3 on microfilm).<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 8, p. 83B.<lb/>

Ross A. Webb, “Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867)” in Lowell H. Harrison, ed., <hi rend='italic'>Kentucky’s Governors</hi> (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 93-97<lb/>

Lowell H. Harrison, "Bramlette, Thomas Elliott" in <hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 112-13.</bibl>
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Legal: <rs ref='#S32205885'>John P. Jackson (Newport, Kentucky, tinner)</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32196887'>John Barnes (Campbell County, Kentucky, laborer and farmer.)</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32207148'>Claudius Tifft (Campbell County, Kentucky, printer and soldier)</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32210142'>James Taylor Lewis (9th Governor of Wisconsin)</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32210956'>State of Wisconsin</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32212529'>Winfield Smith (Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, attorney and 8th Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin.)</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32207256'>Henry Holt (Indicted for murder in Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1864. Fugitive from justice in Illinois in 1864.)</rs>
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<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 250.<lb/>

"On Their Winding Way," <hi rend='italic'>Cincinnati Daily Press</hi> (Cincinnati, OH), February 25, 1861, p. 3.<lb/>

"Death of the City Marshal," <hi rend='italic'>The Cincinnati Daily Enquirer</hi> (Cincinnati, OH), March 24, 1869, p. 7.<lb/>

"Action of the City Council in Regard to the Death of Marshal Cook," <hi rend='italic'>The Cincinnati Enquirer</hi> (Cincinnati, OH), March 25, 1869, p. 7.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Begun and Held in the Town of Frankfort, on Monday, the Fifth Day of December, in the Year of Our Lord 1859, and of the Commonwealth the Sixty-Eighth</hi> (Frankfort, KY: Jno B. Major, 1859), 977.</bibl>
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Legal: <rs ref='#S32213449'>Francis Manville Webster (Campbell County, Kentucky, attorney.)</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32196535'>Moses Cook (Newport, Kentucky. city marshal. )</rs>
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                  <bibl>KYR-0001-006-0043.</bibl>
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Political: <rs ref='#S32210456'>George Coy (Maysville, Kentucky machinist)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32201291'>Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)</rs><lb/>
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Legal: <rs ref='#S32196535'>Moses Cook (Newport, Kentucky. city marshal. )</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32204060'>Richard Yates  (Morgan County, Illinois, governor, attorney, representative, and senator)</rs>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 44A. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 634. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 237A. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Campbell County, Newport, p. 381B.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Lineage Book: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution</hi>, vol. IX (Harrisburg, PA: Press of Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1899), 152-3.</bibl>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Missouri, Buchanan County, Washington Township, p. 37A.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Slave Schedules, Missouri, Buchanan County, District 9.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Missouri, Buchanan County, Washington Township, pp. 334-335.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Slave Schedules, Missouri, Buchanan County, Washington Township, p. 74B.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1870), Population Schedules, Missouri, Buchanan County, St. Joseph Ward 4, p. 607B.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002</hi>, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO, Buchanan County, 1839-1879.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002</hi>, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO, Cole County, 1821-1919.<lb/>

"Gov. Willard P. Hall," <hi rend='italic'>St. Joseph Weekly Herald</hi> (St. Joseph, MO), November 9, 1882, p. 6.<lb/>

John F. Phillips, "Gov. Willard Preble Hall," <hi rend='italic'>Missouri Historical Review</hi>, vol. 5, no. 2 (Oct. 1910 - July 1911), 69-82.<lb/>

Carrie Westlake Whitney, <hi rend='italic'>Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908</hi>, vol. II (Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1908), 139-40.</bibl>
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Legal: <rs ref='#S32213449'>Francis Manville Webster (Campbell County, Kentucky, attorney.)</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32196535'>Moses Cook (Newport, Kentucky. city marshal. )</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32211609'>Campbell Circuit Court</rs>
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                  <bibl>KYR-0001-006-0044.</bibl>
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                <geo>39.0914, -84.4958</geo>
                  <bibl>Will Frank Steely, "Newport" in <hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 680.</bibl>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>USGS: Earth Explorer</hi>, "St. Louis, Missouri," <a href='https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/'>https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/</a> (accessed on May 4, 2020).</bibl>
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                  <bibl>“Jefferson City, Missouri," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed November 18, 2020, <a href='https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/.'>https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/.</a><lb/>

Milton D. Rafferty and Edwin J. Westermann, "Missouri," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 22, 2017, <a href='https://www.britannica.com/place/Missouri-state.'>https://www.britannica.com/place/Missouri-state.</a></bibl>
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                    <p xml:id='OTPS32212653P0'>State in the midwestern region of the United States. Capital at Springfield. Located on the Ohio River and Mississippi River.
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                <geo>39.8017, -89.6437</geo>
                  <bibl>Newton Bateman and Paul Selby, ed., <hi rend='italic'>Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois</hi> (Chicago: Munsell Publishing Company, 1918), p. 241, 258. <lb/>

Roger D. Bridges and Rodney O. Davis, <hi rend='italic'>Illinois: Its History and Legacy</hi> (St. Louis: River City Publishers, 1984).<lb/>

“Springfield, Illinois," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 26, 2020, <a href='https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/.'>https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/.</a></bibl>
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                    <p xml:id='OTPS32214715P0'>Administrative body of the state of Kentucky. Capital at Frankfort, Kentucky. Governor(s): Beriah Magoffin (1859-1862), James F. Robinson (1862-1863), and Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867).
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                </note>
                  <bibl>Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in <hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380.<lb/>

Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in <hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366.<lb/>

Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in <hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233.</bibl>
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              <orgName>Newport Mayors Court</orgName>
                <idno>O00012745</idno>
 
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                <note type="article">
                    <p xml:id='OTPS32214239P0'>Court for trying misdemeanors in the city of Newport, Campbell County, Kentucky. Judge(s): Ed. W. Hawkins, Sr.
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                  <bibl>KYR-0001-029-0592.</bibl>
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            <org xml:id="S32196597">
              <orgName>State of Illinois</orgName>
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                <event type="begun"  when="1818-12-03">
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                <note type="categorization">
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                    <p xml:id='OTPS32196597P0'>Administrative body of the state of Illinois. Capital at Springfield, Illinois. Governor(s): William Henry Bissell (January 12, 1857 - March 18, 1860), John Wood (March 18, 1860 - January 14, 1861), Richard Yates (January 14, 1861 - January 16, 1865), and Richard James Oglesby (January 16, 1865 - January 11, 1869).
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Political: <rs ref='#S32204060'>Richard Yates  (Morgan County, Illinois, governor, attorney, representative, and senator)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32203410'>Ozias Mather Hatch (Springfield, IL, secretary of state of IL (1856-1864))</rs>
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                </note>
                  <bibl>Janet Cartwright, Richard T. Lockhart, and Paul Simon, “Illinois,” Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed June 5, 2021, <a href='https://www.britannica.com/place/Illinois-state.'>https://www.britannica.com/place/Illinois-state.</a><lb/>

“Former Illinois Governors," National Governors Association, accessed June 5, 2021, <a href='https://www.nga.org/former-governors/illinois.'>https://www.nga.org/former-governors/illinois.</a></bibl>
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                    <p xml:id='OTPS32214910P0'>Administrative body of the state of Missouri. Capitol at Jefferson City. Governors: Robert Marcellus Stewart (1857-1861), Claibourne Fox Jackson (1861), Hamilton Rowan Gamble (1861-1864), William Preble Hall (1864-1865), Thomas Clement Fletcher (1865-1869).
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Political: <rs ref='#S32200666'>William McNeill Clough (Platte County, Missouri, lawyer. )</rs><lb/>
Legal: <rs ref='#S32199789'>Rudolph Mackwitz (St. Louis, Missouri, secretary, notary, and claims agent.)</rs>
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                </note>
                  <bibl>“Historical Listing of Missouri Governors,” Missouri Secretary of State, accessed October 3, 2022, <a href='https://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/history/historicallistings/governors.'>https://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/history/historicallistings/governors.</a><lb/>

Perry McCandless, <hi rend='italic'>A History of Missouri: Volume II, 1820-1860</hi>, (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1972), 9-11.</bibl>
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<date when='1864-10-28'>Oct<hi rend='underline'><hi rend='sup'>r</hi></hi> 28<hi rend='underline'><hi rend='sup'>th</hi></hi> 1864</date><lb/>
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          <p corresp='TTP35081477P0' xml:id='OTP35081477P0'>for his arrest and return to this state for trial and would suggest as a suitable and efficient person to act as agent of theSstate <rs ref='#S32196535'>M Cook</rs> who is marshal of the City of Newport.
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