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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-0001-007-0350 BR2-252 to BR2-253

Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania 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. Chatham T. Ewing (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, attorney, soldier, and commissioner of deeds) N00004966 1839-01-30 1892-07-22 Categories: People

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, attorney, soldier, and commissioner of deeds. New Lisbon, Ohio, native. Married to Ella Wheeler Ewing. Law Student in Pittsburgh in 1860. Attorney in Pittsburgh in 1862. Captain of Ewing's Battery of Light Artillery in Pittsburgh from 1862 to 1864. Resumed law practice in Pittsburgh in 1865. Commissioner of deeds for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Pennsylvania in 1865.

Relationships Legal: Jacob H. Walter (West Deer, Pennsylvania, merchant and prothonotary)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, Ward 7, p. 50; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Iowa, Polk County, Valley Township, p. 11; "Chatham T Ewing," Pittsburgh Dispatch (Pittsburgh, Pa.), July 29, 1892, p. 4; Directory of Pittsburgh and Allegheny Cities, 1862-63 (Pittsburgh: George H. Hurston, printer, 1862), 86; Directory of Pittsburgh and Allegheny Cities, 1864-65 (Pittsburgh: George H. Hurston, printer, 1864), 91; Directory of Pittsburgh and Allegheny Cities, 1862-63 (Pittsburgh: George H. Hurston, printer, 1862), 116; Find A Grave, "Captain Chatham T. Ewing (1839-1892)," Memorial #10066660, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10066660&ref=acom (accessed May 4, 2017). David H. Hazen (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, attorney) N00004967 1821-06-02 1890-05-16 Categories: People

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, attorney. Pennsylvania native. Married to Sarah Hazen. Father of George W. Hazen, Mary J. Hazen, William P. Hazen. Attorney in Pittsburgh in 1860. Member of the Democratic Party. Secretary of the executive committee of the Allegheny County Democratic Party in 1863.

Relationships Political: Chatham T. Ewing (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, attorney, soldier, and commissioner of deeds)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pittsburgh, Ward 2; "Organization of the Democratic Executive Committee of Allegheny County," Pittsburgh Daily Post (Pittsburgh, Pa.), October 13, 1864, p. 2; Pittsburgh Daily Post (Pittsburgh, Pa.), May 5, 1863, p. 4; Find A Grave, "David H. Hazen (1821-1890)," Memorial #98920615, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=98920615&ref=acom (accessed May 4, 2017). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania P001033 Categories: Places

Seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Located at the confluence of the Allegheny River and Monongahela River, forming the Ohio River.

40.4406, -79.9959 "Pittsburgh" in Encyclopedia Britannica, (https://www.britannica.com/place/Pittsburgh) (accessed May 20, 2017). Frankfort, Kentucky P00000308 Categories: Places

Capital of Kentucky. Seat of Franklin County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 16, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 108. Pennsylvania P001006 Categories: Places

State in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Capital at Harrisburg. Located on Lake Erie and the Delaware River.

40.2737, -76.8844 Carol Lewis Thompson and E. Willard Miller, "Pennsylvania," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed May 22, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Pennsylvania-state. "Harrisburg, Pennsylvania," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 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. Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania 1865-01-26 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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Pittsburgh, Pa. January 26th 1865 His Excellency Gov. Bramlette; Executive Department, Frankfort Ky. Sir:

I would respectfully solicit the appointment of Chatham T. Ewing of this City as Commissioner of Kentucky for the State of Pennsylvania.

The oil Excitement among our people has led many of them to invest largely in your state and to facilitate exchanges and transfers of territory located there Some of us are desirous to have a Commissioner of Kentucky in our midst and I may add, that Mr Ewing, for whom we ask the appointment, is a young attorney of our bar, of irreproachable honor and well fitted for the office

Trusting that you will favor my request I remain

Vry Rply D. H. Hazen

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