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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.
Storey County, Nevada Territory, miner and commissioner of deeds. North Carolina native. Miner in California in 1859. Miner in Storey County, Nevada Territory, in 1860. Commissioner of deeds for the State of Kentucky in the Nevada Territory in 1863.
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Carson City, Nevada, governor, judge, senator, and commissioner. Madison County, New York, native. Son of James Nye and Thankful Crocker Nye. Married to Elsie Benson Nye. Father to Mary Nye and Charles Nye. Attended Homer Academy in New York. District attorney in Madison County, New York, in 1839. Judge of Madison County Court in New York from 1840-1848. County Court Judge in Madison County in 1850. Boarder in New York City in 1855. First commissioner of the Metropolitan Board of Police in New York City from 1857 to 1860. Governor of the Nevada Territory from March 22, 1861, to October 31, 1864. Governor of the State of Nevada from October 31, 1864, to December 5, 1864. Member of the United States Senate from Nevada from February 1, 1865, to March 3, 1873.
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Created as a territory in the western United States on March 2, 1861. Capital at Genoa in 1861, moved to Carson City in 1861. Admitted to statehood on October 31, 1864.
Capital of the Nevada Territory from 1861 to October 31, 1864. Capital of Nevada from October 31, 1864, to the present. Seat of Ormsby County, Nevada Territory, from 1861 to 1864. Seat of Ormsby County, Nevada, from 1864 to 1969.
Census designated settlement in western Nevada.
County in western Nevada. Seat at Virginia City.
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).
Executive Department
d 1862
An application having been made to your Excellency by
I take pleasure in stating that the applicant is personally known to me, and I deem him qualified to properly discharge the duties of that office, and would request a favorable consideration of his application
Yours respectfully
Gov N. T.
To His Excellency
J F Robinson
Gov of