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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Appointments by the Governor, Civil Appointments, 1862-1863 KYR-0001-031-0088 R1-133

Greensburg, Green County, Kentucky James Fisher Robinson (governor, state senator, businessman, attorney, and farmer) N001004 1800-10-04 1882-10-31 Categories: People

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.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 1, p. 216B, 230A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 2, pp. 235, 236, 252. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p. 266. John David Smith, “James F. Robinson (1862-1863),” ed. Lowell H. Harrison, Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 89-92. William Henry Engle, Pennsylvania Genealogies: Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg: Lane S. Hart, 1886), 553, 556-7. Creed H. Craddock (Green County, Kentucky, farmer tenant and justice of the peace) N00015338 1807? 1862 Categories: People

Green County, Kentucky, farmer tenant and justice of the peace. Virginia native. Son of Robert Craddock and Betsy Craddock. Married to Elizabeth Sandidge Craddock. Father of Elizabeth A. Craddock, Robert F. Craddock, Mary J. Craddock, Lucy D. Craddock, Almeda E. Craddock, Orazelphia "Rozelphia" Craddock, Harriet B. Craddock, and John G. Craddock. Married to Martha A. Craddock. Resident in Green County, Kentucky, in 1840. Resident in Green County in 1850. Tenant farmer in Green County in 1860. Justice of the Peace in Green County in 1862. Died in Green County in 1862.

Sixth Manuscript Census of the United States (1840), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, Southern District, p.168. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 1, p. 97B-98A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 2, p. 545. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #28542. Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Kentucky County, District, and Probate Courts, Green County Wills, vol. 1-4, 1794-1901, p. 169-172. KYR-0001-031-0088. Samuel A. Spencer (Green County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) N00012826 1803-02-04 1871-05-12 Categories: People

Green County, Kentucky, attorney and judge. Kentucky native. Married to Virginia Willis Spencer in Adair County, Kentucky, on January 31, 1828. Father of Louisa H. Spencer, Alice C. Spencer, Ann R. Spencer, Samuel F. Spencer, and Mary B. Spencer. Attorney in Green County in 1860. Presiding judge of the Green County Court in 1862.

Relationships Legal: Samuel T. Wilson (Green County, Kentucky, clerk of circuit court) Legal: John W. Barrett (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer and deputy sheriff) Legal: Samuel Rogers Tolle (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff) Political: Creed H. Craddock (Green County, Kentucky, farmer tenant and justice of the peace) Social: James Whitlock (Green County, Kentucky, merchant, farmer, and justice of the peace) Political: Green County Court

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 2, p. 628. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Adair County Marriages, Film #001904582, p. 162/162 on microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com). “Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), p. 304. Find A Grave, "Samuel A. Spencer (1803-1871)," Memorial #73272613, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73272613 (accessed June 15, 2020). James Whitlock (Green County, Kentucky, merchant, farmer, and justice of the peace) N00015339 1803? Categories: People

Green County, Kentucky, merchant, farmer, and justice of the peace. Virginia native. Married to Elizabeth "Bettie" Begley Whitlock. Father of John T. Whitlock, James H. Whitlock, William Whitlock, Rebecca J. Whitlock, Benjamin F. Whitlock, Elizabeth Whitlock, Daniel M. Whitlock, and Silvanius Newton Whitlock. Merchant in Green County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in Green County in 1850. Farmer in Green County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Green County in 1860. Appointed justice of the peace in Green County on December 18,1862.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 1, p. 92A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 1, p. 173. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 2, p. 574-5. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 2, p. 74B. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #29665. KYR-0001-031-0088. Greensburg, Kentucky P001024 Categories: Places

Seat of Green County, Kentucky.

37.2609, -85.4989 Ron D. Bryant, “Green County,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 387. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Greensburg, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on October 23, 2019). Green County, Kentucky P00000468 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Greensburg, Kentucky. Located on the Green River.

37.257, -85.5612 Ron D. Bryant, “Green County,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), p. 387. USGS: Earth Explorer, “Green County, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on February 27, 2020). Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). Commonwealth of Kentucky O001025 1792 Categories: Organizations

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).

Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380. Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366. Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233. Greensburg, Green County, Kentucky 1862-12-15 Correspondence English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": 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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Greensburg Green County Ky Decr 15. 1862 To His Excellency James F Robinson Esq Governor of Kentucky Dear Sir

Owing to the death of one of Our Justices of the peace for this county. (C. H. Craddock Esq) who recently died -- being a Justice of District No 3 of this county...there is a Vacancy in Said office --I respectfully recommend to your Excellency -- James Whitlock a resident of said District as a suitable person to fill said office Mr Whitlock is a man that stands deservedly high in the Community. for honesty. integrity & good deportment: he is a sound & reliable union man. and one altogether acceptable to the Union men of this County

I therefore hope that it may meet your Excellencys desires of propriety to make this appointment.

I have the honor to be Very respectfully Your obed Sevnt S. A. Spencer Presiding Judge Green Co Court

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J. P. Dist No 3 Jas Whitlock AppdDecr 18. 1862