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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Appointments by the Governor, Civil Appointments, 1863-1867 KYR-0001-007-0323 BR2-216

Alexandria, 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. Benjamin J. Beall (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer, clerk pro tem, and JP; captain 10th & 14th KY Cav CSA) N00001889 1825? Categories: People

Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer, soldier, and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Married to Dora Beall. Father of Edward Beall, Lizzie Beall, Duke Beall, Alice Beall, Maria Beall, Fannie Beall, and Laura Beall. Farmer in Alexandria, Kentucky, in 1860. Justice of the peace in Campbell County from October 6, 1862, to November 18, 1864. Carpenter in Campbell County in 1863. Served in the 10th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) and the 14th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as captain from March 1863 to January 1864. Clerk pro-tem of the Campbell Circuit Court in 1864.

Relationships Political: Campbell Circuit Court Legal: Campbell Circuit Court Legal: George Herendon (Campbell County Election Officer) Legal: John Wiggins Flora (Campbell County, KY, judge, farmer, Election Officer) Legal: George Washington Carmack (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Richard B. Carpenter, Jr. (Covington, Kentucky, commonwealth's attorney) Legal: Thomas Hays (Campbell County resident) Legal: John J. Nelson (Campbell County resident) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Campbell County, Alexandria, p. 181. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Campbell County, Alexandria, p. 7. Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0053. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Campbell County, KY, June and July 1863, p. 30. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers, vol. 2, 1861-1865 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1918), p. 204-05. KYR-0001-007-0322. KYR-0001-031-0021. Frank Spillman (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) N00001913 1818? Categories: People

Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Married to Antha A. Spillman. Father of Mary M. Spillman, James A. Spillman, Maria B. Spillman, Henry E. Spillman, Orville Spillman, and Robert M. Spillman. Farmer in Campbell County in 1860. Justice of the peace in Campbell County from November 18, 1864.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Campbell County, p. 173. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Campbell County, Alexandria, p. 8. KYR-0001-007-0322. D. W. Henry (Campbell County Veterinarian) N00002073 1820? Categories: People

Campbell County, Kentucky, veterinarian. Kentucky native. Veterinary surgeon in Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1863.

Relationships Political: Frank Spillman (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace)

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Campbell County, KY, June/July 1863, p. 104. John Hayden Nelson (Campbell County, KY, attorney) N00002071 1801-08-22 1889-11-03 Categories: People

Alexandria, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Mariah Nelson. Father of Lucy Nelson, Maria Ella Nelson, and William Nelson. Attorney in Alexandria, Kentucky, in 1860.

Relationships Political: Frank Spillman (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) Political: George Herendon (Campbell County Election Officer) Political: John Wiggins Flora (Campbell County, KY, judge, farmer, Election Officer) Legal: George Herendon (Campbell County Election Officer) Legal: John Wiggins Flora (Campbell County, KY, judge, farmer, Election Officer) Legal: George Washington Carmack (Campbell County, Kentucky, 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: John J. Nelson (Campbell County resident) Legal: Campbell Circuit Court

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Campbell County, Alexandria, p. 824. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Campbell County, Alexandria, p. 156B. Find A Grave, "Judge John Hayden Nelson (1801-1889)," Memorial #89277005, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89277005 (accessed September 13, 2019). John Todd (Campbell County, Kentucky, engineer) N00002074 1835? Categories: People

Campbell County, Kentucky, engineer. Delaware native. Married to Maria Todd. Father of Clara Todd and Solomon Todd. Engineer in Campbell County in 1860.

Relationships Political: Frank Spillman (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Campbell County, p. 259. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Campbell County, Alexandria, p. 7. Joseph F. Wright (Campbell County, Kentucky, teacher) N00002072 1836? Categories: People

Campbell County, Kentucky, teacher. Kentucky native. Son of Samuel Wright and Elizabeth Wright. Teacher in Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1860.

Relationships Political: Frank Spillman (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Campbell County, p. 257. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Campbell County, Alexandria, p. 7. John Por (Resident of Alexandria, Kentucky) N00002075 Categories: People

Signed a letter to Thomas E. Bramlette recommending Frank Spillman as justice of the peace in Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1864.

KYR-0001-007-0323. Hugh Knox Rachford (Campbell County, Kentucky, physician and delegate) N00002076 1815? Categories: People

Campbell County, Kentucky, physician and delegate. Kentucky native. Married to Eliza Rachford. Father of Sameul Rachford, Benjamin Knox Rachford, Eliza K. Rachford, Clarence Rachford, and Robert Y. Rachford. Delegate to the Kentucky State Democratic Party Convention from Campbell County in 1860. Physician in Campbell County in 1860.

Relationships Political: Frank Spillman (Campbell County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Campbell County, p. 182. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Campbell County, Alexandria, p. 6. "Democratic Meeting in Campbell," The Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, KY), October 27, 1859, p. 1. Alexandria, Kentucky P00001878 Categories: Places

With Newport, one of the seats of Campbell County, Kentucky.

38.9595, -84.388 "Alexandria" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 12. "Alexandria, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 22, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Commonwealth of Kentucky O001025 1792 Categories: Organizations

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).

Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380. Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366. Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233. 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. Alexandria, Campbell County, Kentucky 1864-11-14 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Alexandria Ky

To the Hon Governor Bramlett of Kentucky we would respectfully represent to your honer that Benjamine Beall Esqr has bian appointed Clerk of the Circuit Court at of this county in consequence of which the office of Justice of the peace in this place is vacant we would therefore recommend to your honor Frank Spilman as a suitable man to fill the vacancy yours respectfully Novr 14th 1864

John Tod D W Henery

John H Nelson John Todd Joseph F Wright

John Por H K. Rachford