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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-0001-007-0356 BR2-261

Cairo, Henderson 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 H. Hancock (Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) N00005022 1824-06-12 1911-06-07 Categories: People

Henderson County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Married to Minerva J. Hancock. Father of P. E. Hancock, Francis M. Hancock, E. H. Hancock, Eva J. Hancock, Lilly B. Hancock, Sally L. Hancock, Mattie Hancock, and Addie Hancock. Farmer in Henderson County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in 1860. Justice of the peace for the Corydon District of Henderson County from 1863 to 1865.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 1, p. 73; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedule, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 1, p. 6; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Henderson County, Corydon, p. 3-4; Find A Grave, "William Harrison Hancock (1824-1911)," Memorial #74598808, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=HAN&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=19&GScntry=4&GSsr=1561&GRid=74598808& (accessed May 4, 2017). Cairo, Henderson County, Kentucky P00005021 Categories: Places

Located in Henderson County, Kentucky.

37.7081, -87.6458 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 45. Henderson County, Kentucky P00002891 Categories: Places

County in western Kentucky. Seat at Henderson. Located on the Ohio River.

37.8362, -87.59 "Henderson, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 26, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. "Henderson County," The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 424. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 137-38. Corydon, Henderson County, Kentucky P00005023 Categories: Places

Located in Henderson County, Kentucky.

37.7434, -87.7039 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 69. Cairo, Henderson County, Kentucky 1865-02-18 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Cairo Henderson Co, Ky, Feby 18th, 1865 To your Excellency Gov, Brmlett

Der Sir in may 1863 I. was Ellected as Justice of the peace for henderson Co Corydon District, And now being about to move from Said District; Concequently I. now Tender to you my recignation,

Yours

Wm H Hancock J, P H, C

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Henderson Co Justice Peace Resignation Accptd27th Feby/65