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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-0001-007-0376 BR2-287 to BR2-288

Philadelphia, Philadelphia 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. Joshua Spering (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, attorney, commissioner of deeds, and councilman) N00002560 1816? 1873? Categories: People

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, attorney, commissioner of deeds, and councilman. Pennsylvania native. Married to Eleanor Spering. Father of Sallie Spering, Elizabeth Spering, Emily Spering, Ellen Spering, and Alfred Spering. Attorney in Philadelphia in 1860. Commissioner of deeds for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Pennsylvania from 1861 to 1865. Member of the Select Council of Philadelphia from 1865 to 1868. Member of the Republican Party.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: Thomas Bell Monroe, Jr. (Frankfort, KY, sec state Aug 30, 1859-Oct 1, 1861attorney, politician, CSA major)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Ward 10, p. 48. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Ward 10, District 29, p. 77-78. "The New Select Council," The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pa.), October 11, 1865, p. 1. Find A Grave_, "Joshua Spering (1816-1873)," Memorial #150893490, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150893490 (accessed May 8, 2017). KYR-0001-007-0369. KYR-0001-017-0087. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania P00001701 Categories: Places

Seat of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Located at the confluence of the Delaware River and Schuylkill River.

39.9523, -75.1638 "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 20, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Sylvester K. Stevens, John B. B. Trussell, and Mathew S. Magda, "Philadelphia," Encyclopedia Britannica, accessed June 6, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Philadelphia. 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/. Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania 1865-02-08 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 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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Phila Feb 8. 1865 His Excellency The Governor of Kentucky Dr Sir

I respectfully solicit a renewal of my appointment as Commissioner of Deeds for your state- which expires on the 27th inst

Very resply yours Joshua Spering 142 1/2 so 4th St

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