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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-0001-007-0349 BR2-251

Lexington, Fayette 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. Samuel Wells (Shreveport, Louisiana, attorney, mayor, and commissioner of deeds) N00004924 1833? Categories: People

Shreveport, Louisiana, attorney, mayor, and commissioner of deeds. Alabama native. District attorney in Shreveport in 1860. Mayor of Shreveport from May 1864 to October 1864. Commissioner of Deeds for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Louisiana in 1865.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Louisiana, Caddo Parish, Shreveport, p. 99.; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Louisiana, Caddo Parish, Shreveport, p. 55; "Shreveport's Mayors," The Times (Shreveport, La.), April 30, 1967, p. 1. Lewis B. Grigsby (Clark County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier) N00004947 1837? Categories: People

Clark County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Kentucky native. Member of the Democratic Party in 1858. Attorney in Clark County in 1860. Served in the 24th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as colonel from 1861 to August 1863.

Relationships Political: Samuel Wells (Shreveport, Louisiana, attorney, mayor, and commissioner of deeds)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 818. "Democratic Meeting in Clark County," The Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), November 3, 1858, p. 1. The Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), July 28, 1866, p. 1. The Maysville Weekly Bulletin (Maysville, Ky.), August 6, 1863, p. 3; The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), May 30, 1882, p. 3. Lexington, Kentucky P001002 Categories: Places

Seat of Fayette County, Kentucky.

38.0406, -84.5037 John D. Wright, "Lexington (City)," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 549-51. "Lexington, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Louisiana P00002302 Categories: Places

State in the southern United States. Capital at Baton Rouge. Located on the Gulf of Mexico and Mississippi River.

30.4507, -91.1546 "Baton Rouge, Louisiana," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed on August 10, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Perry H. Howard and Robert J. Norrell, "Louisiana," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 2, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Louisiana-state. Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana P00004922 Categories: Places

Seat of Caddo Parish, Louisiana. Located on the Red River.

32.5252, -93.7502 "Shreveport" in Encyclopedia Britannica, (https://www.britannica.com/place/Shreveport) (accessed May 2, 2017). 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. Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky 1865-01-08 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. 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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Lexington Ky

Jan 8th 1865 Dear Gov --

I have Just returned from a trip up Red River in La, and while in Shreveport was requested by members of the Bar of that place, to ask of you the appointment of a commissioner of Deeds for Kentucky in that place. The need of a Commissioner at that place is very much felt. -- I had some difficulty in the want of one myself.

They recommended the name of Samuel Wells Esq as a Suitable person. --

Please attend to this and very much oblige, the legal fraternity of North Western La & your obedient Servant. --

L B. Grigsby

Gov Thos E. Bramlett. --

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