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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-0001-007-0378 BR2-291

Hopkinsville, Christian 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. Daniel S. Hays (Hopkinsville, Kentucky, attorney and notary public) N00000439 1796? 1872-12-14 Categories: People

Hopkinsville, Kentucky, attorney and notary public. Virginia native. Married to Jane Hays on January 24, 1826. Father of John W. Hays, Mary L. Hays, Martha J. Hays, Henry Clay Hays, James D. Hays, Victoria Hays, and Daniel S. Hays, Jr. Corporal in Captain George McAfee's Company of Kentucky Militia in the War of 1812 from November 1814 to May 1815. Christian County Justice of the Peace. Christian County sheriff from 1847 to 1849. Owned one enslaved person in 1850. Attorney in Christian County in 1850 and 1860. Served as a notary public for the Commonwealth of Kentucky at-large in 1865.

Relationships Political: Sarah Ann Hord Myers (Christian County, Kentucky, farmer)

William Henry Perrin, ed., Counties of Christian and Trigg, Kentucky. Historical and Biographical (Chicago, IL: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1884), p. 56-57, 95-96. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 1, p. 487. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District 1, p. 91. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Hopkinsville, p. 20. War of 1812 Pension Application Files Index, 1812-1815, Ancestry, roll no. 43. Hopkinsville, Kentucky P00002431 Categories: Places

Seat of Christian County, Kentucky.

36.8656, -87.4886 "Hopkinsville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. William T. Turner, "Hopkinsville," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2015), 440-41. Christian County, Kentucky P00001918 Categories: Places

County in southwestern Kentucky. Seat at Hopkinsville.

36.8656, -87.4886 "Hopkinsville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 21, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. William T. Turner, "Christian County," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2002), 187-88. Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky 1865-03-07 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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Hopkinsville Kentucky March 7th 1865 His Excellency

Thos E Bramlett Dear Sir

I have been for many years Notary Public for our County and my Commission has or is about to expire -- I would ask to be again Commissioned for the State at large as I may have as I Often have had calls out of our County to Certify Deeds &c for some are foolish enough to think it not Well done unless I do it

I encase one dollar Which I believe is the fee

your friend &c D. S. Hays

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Notary Public State at Large D S. Hays apptd10th Mch/65