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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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Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney, editor, and statesman. Lexington native. Married to Virginia Cooper Wickliffe on November 25, 1844. Graduate of Transylvania University in Fayette County in 1827. Editor and proprietor of the Observer and Reporter in Lexington from 1838 to 1865. Member of the Whig Party. Resident of Lexington in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860. Secretary of State for the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1862 to 1863.
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Kentucky attorney and politician. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah O. Lee Crittenden. Father of George Bib Crittenden, Ann Mary Crittenden Coleman, Cornelia A. Crittenden Young, Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Sarah Lee Crittenden Watson, and Robert Henry Crittenden. Married to Maria Knox Innes Crittenden. Father of John J. Crittenden III and Eugene Wilkinson Crittenden. Married to Elizabeth Moss Crittenden. Attended Pisgah Academy in Woodford County, Kentucky. Attended Washington College in Lexington, Virginia. Graduated from William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1806. Admitted to the bar in 1807. Practiced law in Woodford County, Kentucky; Russellville, Kentucky; and Frankfort, Kentucky. Attorney for the Illinois Territory from 1809 to 1810. Served as a major to General Samuel Hopkins and as an aide-de-camp to Governor Isaac Shelby during the War of 1812. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1811 to 1817, 1825, and from 1829 to 1832. Member of the United States Senate from 1817 to 1819, 1835 to 1848, and 1855 to 1861. United States district attorney from 1827 to 1829. Attorney general of the United States from March to September 1841 and from 1850 to 1853. Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1848 to 1850. Employed Thomas Lee as a laborer in Franklin County in 1850. Owned forty-two enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1850. Owned nine enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1860. Unionist member of the United States House of Representative from the Eighth Congressional District of Kentucky from 1861 to 1863. Died in Frankfort, Kentucky on July 26, 1863.
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Seat of government of the United States of America. Located on the Potomac River.
Census designated settlement in western Nevada.
County in western Nevada. Seat at Virginia City.
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.
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).
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Dear
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In transmitting herewith these papers to your Excellency I take pleasure to recommend the apointment of M r Bokkelen to said office, and, should any difficulty be in the way of forwarding his commission by the applicant's failure to remit the fee, I will thank the
usage requisite in the case.
I am, my dear Sir,
Yours' very truly
To His Excellency
J. F. Robinson
Governor of Kentucky.
Nevada Ter.
Comrof Deeds
Virginia City
W m A. M. Van Bokkelen
Appdr 18. 1862