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Twenty-second governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, banker, and legislator. Son of Jonathan Robinson and Jane Black Robinson. Married to Susan D. Mansell Robinson on December 26, 1821. Father of Emilie Jane Robinson and James F. Robinson, Jr. Married Willina S. Herndon Robinson on May 30, 1842. Father of Scott Herndon Robinson, John McCracken Robinson, George Sidney Robinson, Madison Johnson Robinson, Stephen Gano Robinson, Willa Ewing Robinson, Philip Eldon Robinson, and Stephen Gano Robinson. Educated at Forest Hill Academy and Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Trustee of Georgetown College. President of the Farmers' Bank of Georgetown. Represented Fayette and Scott Counties in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1851 to 1855. Owned thirty-five enslaved persons in 1860. Represented Fayette and Scott Counties in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1861. Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 3, 1861, to September 5, 1861. Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from August 16, 1861, to August 18, 1862. Governor of Kentucky from August 18, 1862, to September 1, 1863. Returned to practicing law and farming on retiring from politics in 1863.
Fleming County, Kentucky, cabinet maker and mechanic. Maryland native. Married to Nancy J. Hinton Beaucamp. Father of Mary W. Beaucamp, Thomas M. Beaucamp, Amelia M. Beaucamp, Annie Beauchamp, and William Beauchamp. Cabinet maker in Fleming County in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in 1850. Cabinet maker in Fleming County in 1860.
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Fleming County, Kentucky, soldier. Private in the Sixteenth Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry from September 1861 to April 1862. Deserted from the Army in Prestonsburg, Kentucky, on April 16, 1862.
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Fleming County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Virginia native. Married to Emily Thompson Cox in Mason County, Kentucky, on September 18, 1838. Married to Margaret P. Cox. Father of Nannie B. Cox, Andrew T. Cox, and Thomas H. Cox. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Fleming County from 1843 to 1845. Attorney in Fleming County in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in Fleming County in 1850. Presidential elector for the Whig Party from the 9th District of Kentucky in 1852. Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky from 1853 to March 4, 1857. Attorney in Fleming County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Fleming County in 1860.
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Seat of Fleming County, Kentucky.
State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.
Capital of Kentucky. Seat of Franklin County, Kentucky. Located on the Kentucky River.
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).
Located in the 10th Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): E. C. Phister and L. W. Andrews. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): R. H. Stanton and George M. Thomas. Clerk(s): John M. Harbison.
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r 15 th 1862
To His Excellency
Gov. of
Dear Sir
I enclose herewith the verified petition of a in praying your Excellency to reprieve him -- Beaucamp is a mechanic, industrious and respectable -- with a large and helpless family of little children -- Keithly is a very disreputable, bad man -- I trust you will consider it consistent with your duty to reprieve Beaucamp --
I am Dear Sir
Your ob t Servt
L M Cox letter & Pettn
His Excellency Jas. F. Robinson
Gov. of Ky,
Ky.
Examined
The grounds for relief in this case are all reliable before a Jury & will in all probability there avail -- It is a very dangerous exercise of Executive power to omit the trial by jury. Surely no ground that it is inconvenient to the accused to await & atttend the trial -- The Executive in my opinion should not interfere in the
J F Robinson