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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-0001-007-0343 BR2-241 to BR2-242

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. Oliver C. Curry (Kentucky and Indiana merchant, justice of the peace, and attorney) N00001759 1834? 1875? Categories: People

Kentucky and Indiana merchant, justice of the peace, and attorney. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth "Eliza" Brooks Miller Curry. Father of Clarence C. Curry and Fry L. Curry. Merchant in Jefferson County in 1860. Justice of the peace in Jefferson County in 1865. Relocated to Indiana in 1865.

Relationships Social: Buford Gentry (Jefferson County, Kentucky) Social: Henry A. Hays (Jefferson Co. Kentucky) Social: M. W. Wakefield (Jefferson Co., Kentucky) Social: A. P. Hayes (Jefferson Co., Kentucky) Social: James R. Hall (Jefferson Co., Kentucky) Social: Sampson Wigginton (Bullitt Co. farmer) Social: William Thirston (Jefferson Co., Kentucky) Social: James Grigsby (Jefferson Co., Kentucky) Social: Peter W. Hayes (Jefferson Co. Ky) Social: Andrew J. Miller (Jefferson Co., Kentucky) Social: Tillotson Neel (Jefferson/Shelby Co farmer) Social: Richard Fryer (Jefferson Co., Kentucky) Social: Levi Frederick (Jefferson Co. Ky) Social: Henry McKeaig (Jefferson Co., Kentucky) Social: Jonathan McKeaig (Jefferson Co., Kentucky) Social: Charles Hays (Jefferson Co., Kentucky) Social: S. M. Hobbs (Jefferson County, Kentucky) Social: J. H. Leatherman (Jefferson County, Kentucky) Social: Bland Ballard McKeaig (Jefferson Co., Kentucky) Social: John A. Hays (Jefferson Co, Kentucky) Social: Jacob Wise (Jefferson co. Ky)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 1, p. 82; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Indiana, Clark County, Jeffersonville, Ward 1, p. 9; Find A Grave, "Oliver C Curry (1834-1875)," Memorial #120516909, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=120516909&ref=acom (accessed May 2, 2017). Abraham R. Groves, Sr. (Jefferson County, Kentucky, physician, farmer, and justice of the peace) N00004895 1835? 1911-04-17 Categories: People

Jefferson County, Kentucky, physician, farmer, and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Son of Isaac Groves. Married to S. Jane Groves. Father of Mary E. Groves and Charles I. Groves. Graduated from the Kentucky School of Medicine and the University of Louisville. Physician and farmer in Jefferson County from c1856 to 1906. Justice of the peace in Jefferson County in 1865.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Hays Precinct, p. 3; "Dr. Abraham R Groves Dies at Home in East End," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), April 18, 1911, p. 7. William Muir Allen (Jefferson County, Kentucky, physician and nurseryman) N00004896 1829? 1919-07-31 Categories: People

Jefferson County, Kentucky, physician and nurseryman. Kentucky native. Married to Frances L. Allen. Father of Wendell W. Allen, Estes Allen, William Allen, and Lillie Allen. Physician and nurseryman in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 30; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Jeffersontown, p. 28; Find A Grave, "William Muir Allen (1829-1919)," Memorial #92553080, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=92553080&ref=acom (accessed June 13, 2017); Commonwealth of Kentucky, Health Data Branch, Division of Epidemiology and Health Planning, Kentucky Death Index, 1911-present, Frankfort, KY, USA: Kentucky Department of Information Systems, Volume 43, Certificate# 21275, July 31, 1919 (accessed via ancestry.com). Andrew Monroe (Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) N00004897 1820? 1868? Categories: People

Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and judge. Frankfort, Kentucky, native. Son of Judge Ben Monroe. Attorney in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1852 to 1855. Member of the Louisville City Council for the 5th Ward from 1856 to 1857. President of the Louisville Board of Councilmen in 1857. Judge of the Jefferson County Court from 1858 to 1866. Mentioned in the Provisional Government of the State of Kentucky Journal on December 11, 1861 as a delegate option for Provisional Congress.

Relationships Political: Abraham R. Groves, Sr. (Jefferson County, Kentucky, physician, farmer, and justice of the peace) Legal: Franklin Gorin (Jefferson Co, Ky, attorney) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: T. E. Dennis (Louisville, Kentucky) Political: Joseph Clement (Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and justice of the peace) Political: William Emmett Simms (Kentucky Confederate soldier and politician) Political: Thomas Johnson (Montgomery Co, KY, farmer, prov Congress, maj & lt col KY Mounted Rifles CSA) Political: Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America Political: Confederate States of America Political: Provisional Council Political: George W. Morris (Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant and justice of the peace) Political: Charles M. Thruston (Jefferson County, Kentucky, court clerk and ageny) Legal: Charles M. Thruston (Jefferson County, Kentucky, court clerk and ageny)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, 6th Ward City of Louisville, p. 119. "Andrew Monroe" in The Encyclopedia of Louisville, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001), 625. "Judge Andrew Monroe," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, Ky.), May 29, 1868, p. 4. KYR-0004-033-0023. 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. Jefferson County, Kentucky P001005 Categories: Places

County in north central Kentucky. Seat at Louisville. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2542, -85.7594 George H. Yater, "Jefferson County," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 464-67. "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 23, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1865-01-23 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 Ky January 23rd 1865 Gov. Bramlette

There is a vacancy in the office of Justice of the Peace in the Hays' Spring District in this County, occasioned by the removal of O. C. Curry from the State.

I recommend for the vacancy Dr A R Groves of that District, as worthy and qualified, and by his Conservative loyalty, a fit person for it.

Refer to Dr Allen of the River Very Respy Andrew Monroe

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