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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Historical Society Emilie Todd Helm Papers KYR-0003-119-0002 Box 1, Folder 2

Macon, Bibb County, Georgia Richard Hawes (Provisional governor of Kentucky) N001001 1797-02-06 1877-05-25 Categories: People

Second and last governor of the provisional Confederate government of the state of Kentucky. Virginia native. Son of Richard Hawes and Clara Walker Hawes. Married to Hetty Morrison Nicholas Hawes on November 13, 1818. Father of James Morrison Hawes, George N. Hawes, Samuel Hawes, Smith Nicholas Hawes, Cary Nicholas Hawes, Clara Hawes, Hettie Hawes, and Mariah J. Hawes. Educated at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Read law with Charles Humphreys and Robert Wickliffe. Served in the Black Hawk War. Practiced law and farmed in Fayette County, Clark County, and Bourbon County, Kentucky. Owned a ropewalk in Winchester, Kentucky, in partnership with Benjamin Hawes Buckner in 1825. Member of the Whig Party. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Clark County in 1828, 1829, and 1836. Member of the House of Representatives of the United States from the 7th District of Kentucky from 1837 to 1841. Member of the Democratic Party. Attorney in Bourbon County in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in Bourbon County in 1850. Attorney in Bourbon County in 1860. Major in the Confederate Commissary Department in October 1861. Appointed auditor of the provisional government in absentia but declined the appointment in Russellville on November 25, 1861. Assumed office as provisional governor of the Kentucky on May 31, 1862, after the death of George W. Johnson. Spent the rest of the war in exile. Second and final governor of the provisional government from October 4, 1862 until the collapse of the Confederacy in 1865. Returned to his law practice and business interests in Bourbon County in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 2, p. 229B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 2, p. 437, p. 40 of microfilm. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Paris, p. 496. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Paris Ward 2, p. 448A. Find A Grave, "Richard Hawes (1797-1877)," Memorial #10040, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10040/richard-hawes (accessed October 18, 2016). Lowell H. Harrison, “Richard Hawes (1862-1865)” in Lowell H. Harrison, Ed., Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 85-88. "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, s.v. “Richard Hawes,” http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000363 (accessed on October 18, 2016). Patrick A. Lewis, For Slavery and Union: Benjamin Buckner and Kentucky Loyalties in the Civil War (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2015), 20. KYR-0004-033-0008. T. T. Smith (Louisville, Ky) N00010540 Categories: People

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, resident and military aid. Appointed military aid to the provisional governor by Richard Hawes on March 7, 1864.

KYR-0003-119-0002. Macon, Georgia P00010539 Categories: Places

Seat of Bibb County, Georgia.

32.83813, -83.63471 Nancy Briska Anderson, "Macon, Georgia" in New Georgia Encyclopedia, John C. Inscoe, Edward Hatfield, and Stephanie Devine eds., https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/macon (Accessed on April 7, 2019). Georgia P001008 Categories: Places

State in southeastern United States. Capital at Milledgeville from 1804 to 1868. Located on the Atlantic Ocean.

33.0801, -83.2321 Robert J. Norrell, Louis De Vorsey, and George Hendricks, "Georgia" in Encyclopedia Britannica, (https://www.britannica.com/place/Georgia-state) (accessed on June 26, 2017). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Georgia," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on April 9, 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). Louisville, Kentucky P00000337 Categories: Places

Seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2527, -85.7585 "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 12, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 179. Jefferson County, Kentucky P001005 Categories: Places

County in north central Kentucky. Seat at Louisville. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2542, -85.7594 George H. Yater, "Jefferson County," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 464-67. "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 23, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Macon, Bibb County, Georgia 1864-03-07 Commission/Appointment English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Macon, Geo March 37. 1864,

I. Richard Hawes, Provisional Governor of the state of Kentucky, by virtue of authority in me vested by the laws of said State, and Reposing especial l confidence in the skill, ability & patriotism of T. T. Smith a ctizen of Lousville, Jefferson County Kentucky do by these presents nominate & appoint the Said T. T. Smith my Military aid, In testimony of which I have had my name & affixed my private Seal, the date above,

R. Hawes

Provl Govr of Ky.,