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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-0001-007-0339 BR2-236 to BR2-237

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. William Newton Hogan (Kentucky notary puiblic and state agent) N00006532 1844? 1884-01-19 Categories: People

Grant County, Kentucky notary puiblic and state agent. Kentucky native. Son of Overton P. Hogan and Sarah Hogan. Notary public in Kentucky in 1864. Worked as an agent, under James P. Flint, in 1864.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 174; The Interior Journal (Standford, Ky.), January 22, 1884, p. 2. James P. Flint (Hopkinsville, Kentucky, merchant, tailor, and state agent) N00003294 1816? Categories: People

Hopkinsville, Kentucky, merchant, tailor, and state agent. Virginia native. Married to Frances "Fannie" M. Young Flint in Bardstown, Kentucky, on April 1, 1838. Father of Mary E. Flint, Bryan Y. Flint, George Ann Flint, Emma P. Flint, John T. Flint, Eliza Flint, and James B Flint. Merchant in Hopkinsville in 1860. Tailor in Hopkinsville in 1860. Notary public in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1864. Commissioner and agent for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from April 8, 1864, to December 1866. Notary public in Louisville in 1865. Author of the December 20, 1865, report entitled, "Report of the State Agent for Kentucky, in Regard to Credits on Drafts and Certificates for Slaves Mustered into the U.S. Service."

Relationships Political: William A. Yantis (Garrard County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier) Political: William Newton Hogan (Kentucky notary puiblic and state agent) Political: Calvin Brock (Montgomery County, KY, teacher, attorney, and county judge) Political: Montgomery County Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 2, p. 432B-433A Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Christian County, Hopkinsville, p. 670-71. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nelson County Marriages, Film #001929414, p. 320 Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-66 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 302. Tony Curtis, "Black Enlistment: Kentucky Was Against it, Before it Was Mostly Against it," _Civil War Governors of Kentucky (blog), Kentucky Historical Society, January 8, 2015, (http://civilwargovernors.org/black-enlistment-kentucky-was-against-it-before-it-was-mostly-against-it/). KYR-0001-007-0339. 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. Grant County, Kentucky P00000938 Categories: Places

County in northern Kentucky. Seat at Williamstown.

38.6381, -84.5605 "Grant County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 383. “Williamstown, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed March 3, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1864-12-12 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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Louisville KyDec 12/64 His Excenllency T. Bramlette Sir

I take pleasure in recommending to you W N Hogan of Grant CoKy., who is my travelling Agent to assist me in getting up lists and Claims for slaves in military services who desires an appointment of Notary Public for the State at large to facilitate me in the business of my office

Your's very respectfully

Jas, P, Flint Agent

P, S, Please forward as soon as possible if you make the appointment enclosed you find two dollars Clerk's fees.

J, P, F,

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Notary Public state at large W AN Hogan apptd13th Dec/64