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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-0001-007-0365 BR2-272 to BR2-273

Frankfort, Franklin 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. John J. Quinn (Franklin County carriage maker, Justice of the Peace, and Frankfort Police Judge) N00006357 1818 Categories: People

Frankfort, Kentucky, carriage maker, justice of the peace, and police judge. New York native. Carriage maker in Frankfort in 1860. Member of a sanitary committee for the United States Army in 1862. Justice of the Peace in Franklin County until 1865. Police Judge in Frankfort in 1865.

Relationships Legal: David Schroeder (Louisville, Kentucky, butcher)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, District 1, p. 101; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 38. KYR-0001-007-0436. KYR-0001-028-0069. KYR-0001-004-1332. John R. Graham (Frankfort, Kentucky, grocer and judge) N00001647 1816-11-03 1880-04-29 Categories: People

Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, grocer and judge. Kentucky native. Son of Married Margaret Ellen Graham Graham on January 26, 1838. Father of Georgia Graham, Charles G. Graham, Gibson Finnie Graham, Judson Graham, Susan Graham, Rowan Graham, Weyland Graham, Harvey Graham, and Frank Graham. Merchant in Franklin County in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1850. Grocer in Frankfort in 1860. Presiding Judge of the Franklin County Court in 1863. Police Judge of Frankfort in 1865.

Relationships Political: Franklin County Court Legal: Mason W. Sherrill (Louisville merchant) Political: John J. Quinn (Franklin County carriage maker, Justice of the Peace, and Frankfort Police Judge) Legal: Peter Smith (Franklin County, Kentucky, barber. ) Legal: Frankfort Police Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 105A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 258. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 23612. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, KY, National 73218, State 4250. KYR-0001-004-0022. KYR-0001-004-0077. KYR-0001-004-0078. KYR-0001-007-0364. George W. Gwin (Frankfort, KY, mayor & councilman, merchant, JP) N00002995 1808-02-11 1881-01-24 Categories: People

Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky, merchant, politician, and justice of the peace. Kentucky native. Married to Catherine Gwin. Father of Thomas J. Gwin and Kate L. Gwin. Married to Julia Ann Smith Gwin in Scott County, Kentucky, on October 27, 1853. Merchant in Franklin County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1850. Mayor of Frankfort from 1857 to 1865. Merchant in Frankfort in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Frankfort in 1860. Justice of the peace in Franklin County from 1861 to 1865. Member of the Frankfort City Council in 1865.

Relationships Legal: Samuel Gill (Louisville, Kentucky, railroad superintendent and vet of Mex-Am War) Legal: Peter Dudley (Frankfort, Military Board, Adj Gen'l and farmer) Political: City Council of Frankfort Political: John J. Quinn (Franklin County carriage maker, Justice of the Peace, and Frankfort Police Judge) Political: James Madison Todd (Frankfort, Kentucky, postmaster, grocer, and commissioner) Social: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) Political: John Rodman (Franklin County, Kentucky, attorney) Legal: Franklin Circuit Court Political: Franklin County Court Legal: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Economic: Grandison W. Owen (Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 53B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 236. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 501B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 144A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Scott County Marriages, Film 000183225. L.F. Johnson, The History of Franklin County, Ky., reprinted edition (Evansville, IN: Unigraphic, 1975), p. 198. Carl E. Kramer, Capital on the Kentucky: A Two Hundred Year History of Frankfort & Franklin County (Frankfort, KY: Historic Frankfort, Inc., 1986), p. 120. "G W Gwin (1809-1881)," Find A Grave, Memorial 74517922, accessed May 24, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74517922. KYR-0001-005-0132. KYR-0001-007-0365. KYR-0001-019-0051. KYR-0001-004-0183. Reuben Runyan (Frankfort, KY merchant) N00006610 1814-03-01 1885-04-07 Categories: People

Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant. Kentucky native. Married Mary L. Runyan. Father of Mattie G. Runyan, Elizabeth G. Runyan, and William L. Runyan. Merchant in Frankfort in 1860. Member of the Board of Councilmen in Frankfort in 1865.

Relationships Social: Mason W. Sherrill (Louisville merchant) Political: City Council of Frankfort Political: John J. Quinn (Franklin County carriage maker, Justice of the Peace, and Frankfort Police Judge) Political: John Baltzell (Frankfort, Kentucky, hatter and councilman) Political: Alexander Hueston Rennick (Franklin County, Kentucky, court clerk) Political: George W. Gwin (Frankfort, KY, mayor & councilman, merchant, JP) Political: James Madison Todd (Frankfort, Kentucky, postmaster, grocer, and commissioner)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort District No. 1, p. 116-17. Find A Grave, "R Runyan (1814-1885)," Memorial #57762351, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57762351 (accessed December 21, 2017). KYR-0001-007-0365. John Baltzell (Frankfort, Kentucky, hatter and councilman) N00006545 1796? Categories: People

Frankfort, Kentucky, hatter and councilman. Maryland native. Married to Charlotte Baltzell. Councilman on the Frankfort City Council from 1857 to 1865. Hatter in Frankfort in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in 1860.

Relationships Political: City Council of Frankfort Political: John J. Quinn (Franklin County carriage maker, Justice of the Peace, and Frankfort Police Judge) Political: Alexander Hueston Rennick (Franklin County, Kentucky, court clerk) Political: George W. Gwin (Frankfort, KY, mayor & councilman, merchant, JP) Political: James Madison Todd (Frankfort, Kentucky, postmaster, grocer, and commissioner)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 74.; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedule, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 17; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 12.; "Frankfort Municipal Elections," The Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), January 6, 1857, p. 2. James Madison Todd (Frankfort, Kentucky, postmaster, grocer, and commissioner) N00001132 1817-07-28 1897-03-27 Categories: People

Frankfort, Kentucky, postmaster, grocer, and commissioner. Kentucky native. Son of Thomas Todd and Lucy Ann Payne Washington Todd. Married to Alisonia Bibb Rennick Todd. Father of Alexander B. Todd, Lucy P. Todd, Thomas A. Todd, William J. Todd, Letty L. Todd, Anna S. Todd, Alisonia Todd, and James M. Todd, Jr. Postmaster in Vanceburg, Kentucky, from 1845 to 1850. Postmaster of Frankfort from 1850 to 1853. Grocer in Frankfort in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Frankfort in 1860. Commissioner of the Kentucky Institute for the Feeble Minded in 1864.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: City Council of Frankfort Political: John J. Quinn (Franklin County carriage maker, Justice of the Peace, and Frankfort Police Judge) Political: John C. Baker (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: John C. Baker (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 80. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedule, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 19. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 8. Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28, p. 613 and 654, (accessed via Ancestry.com). The Kentucky Advocate (Danville, Ky.), March 29, 1897, p. 2. "James Madison Todd, the Fourth," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), July 30, 1899, p. 12. Find A Grave, "James M. Todd (1817-1897)," Memorial #61964239, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61964239 (accessed March 29, 2017). Alexander Hueston Rennick (Franklin County, Kentucky, court clerk) N00001633 1791-08-25 1871-12-18 Categories: People

Franklin County, Kentucky, court clerk. Mercer County, Kentucky, native. Son of John Rennick and Mary Hueston Rennick. Married to Letitia Lee Rennick. Father of Mary Rennick Todd, Eliza Rennick, Catherine Rennick Mongtomery, Alisonia Rennick Todd, Louisa Rennick Milton, Willis Lee Rennick, John Alexander Rennick, Thomas Todd Rennick, Henry Swigert Rennick. Served in the United States Army in the War of 1812. Franklin County Court Deputy Clerk from 1817 to 1834. Franklin County Court Clerk from 1834 to 1870.

Relationships Social: Warren Parker (Franklin County) Political: City Council of Frankfort Political: John J. Quinn (Franklin County carriage maker, Justice of the Peace, and Frankfort Police Judge) Political: George W. Gwin (Frankfort, KY, mayor & councilman, merchant, JP) Political: James Madison Todd (Frankfort, Kentucky, postmaster, grocer, and commissioner) Social: John Jordan Crittenden (Franklin Co, KY, Representative, Senator, & former KY Governor) Political: George W. Howe (Franklin County, Kentucky, wagon maker, postmaster, and justice of the peace) Political: Franklin Bryan Chinn (Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer) Political: Harry Innes Todd, Sr. (Frankfort, Kentucky, merchant and penitentiary keeper)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, District 1, p. 237. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 143A. “The Rennicks,” Register of Kentucky State Historical Society 2 (January 1904), p. 71-72. "Col Alexander Hueston Rennick (1791-1871)," Find A Grave, Memorial #84171652, accessed March 27, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=84171652. 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. City Council of Frankfort O00008002 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of Frankfort, Kentucky.

KYR-0001-007-0365 Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky 1865-02-17 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Frankfort Febry 17th 1865 To his Excellency The Governor of Kentucky

I respectfully beg leave to offer my resignation to you, of the Office of Police Judge of the City of Frankfort. to take effect 1st March next-- And solicit the appointment of John J. Quin of the City to fill the vacancy

Respectfully Your OBt Humble Sevt John R Graham

We the undersigned as members of the board of Councilmen of the City of Frankfort and also as Citizens of said City, take pleasure in recommending to your favourable consideration, Mr. J. J. Quin as a suitable person to fill the office of Police Judge of the City of Frankfort

G. W. Gwin R Runyan

J. Baltzell James M. Todd A H Rennick