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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, teacher and soldier. Indiana native. Teacher in Fleming County in 1860. Served in the 40th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as first lieutenant from September 29, 1863, to June 2, 1864.
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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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Franklin County, Kentucky, farmer, post office clerk, and state official. Franklin County, Kentucky, native. Son of Thomas L. Tate and Nancy Taylor Tate. Married to Lucy J. Hawkins Tate in Woodford County, Kentucky, on June 3, 1856. Father of Howard S. Tate and Edmonia Tate. Clerk of the U.S. Post Office in Frankfort, Franklin County, in 1848. Farmer in Franklin County in 1850. Assistant secretary of state of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1854 to 1855 and from 1859 to 1863. Owned two enslaved persons in Frankfort in 1860. Assistant clerk of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1865 to 1867.
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Jefferson County, Kentucky, newspaper editor and public printer. Bucks County, Pennsylvania, native. Married to Eliza R. Harney Hughes in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on August 10, 1846. Father of Edward H. Hughes, Wallace E. Hughes, William B. Hughes, Mary E. Hughes, Martha Hughes, and Thomas P. Hughes. Editor in Louisville in 1850. Editor of the Louisville Democrat with John H. Harney in Louisville in 1860. Installed as public printer for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in December 1861.
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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).
Organized at Ashland, Kentucky. Placed on active duty in October 1863, and formally mustered into service in January 1864. Mustered out in battalions at Catlettsburg, Kentucky: Companies A-F on December 24, 1864, and Companies G, H, I, and K on February 14, 1865. Commander(s): Colonel John Mason Brown, Lieutenant Colonel Lewis M. Clark.
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The organization of infantry, cavalry, and artillery military units in the United States government. Commander(s): Winfield Scott, George B. McClellan, Henry W. Halleck, and Ulysses S. Grant.
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IN THE NAME AND BY THE AUTHORITY OF
GOVERNOR OF SAID COMMONWEALTH,
To all whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:
Know Ye, That
NOW KNOW YOU, That, by the powers vested in me by the Constitution and Laws of said State, and reposing special trust and confidence in your patriotism, valor, fidelity, and ability, I do, by these presents Commission you as 2nd Lieutenant as aforesaid, for the term of one year unless sooner discharged, upon condition that you take the oath indorsed hereon, within ten days from receipt hereof, sending a certificate thereof to General Headquarters; and I do hereby authorize and require you to discharge, all and singular, the duties and services appertaining to your said office, agreeably to law and general regulations, and to obey such orders and instructions as you shall, from time to time, receive from your superior officers.
UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my name, and caused the seal of the State of Kentucky to be affixed, at
J F Robinson
BY THE GOVERNOR:
By
Commonwealth Office --
45 Infy
Thos H Larimore
Lt. Larimore
1. 2. 3. 4
Cancelled
J W F
mtd Rifles.
DUPLICATE -- 45. Infantry Regiment Kentucky Volunteers.
[To be returned to the Adjutant General of Kentucky properly filled.]
OATH.
I Thomas H. Larimore do solemnly swear, that I will faithfuly support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Kentucky, and will discharge, all and singular, the duties and services appertaining to the office of
Before me, personally appeared the above Thomas H. Larimore and made the oath above written, and signed the same in my presence.