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                    <p xml:id='OTPS32197010P0'>Bourbon County, Kentucky, attorney and clerk. Kentucky native. Married to Tinnie C. Brown. Father of Fannie Brown. Attorney in Bourbon County in 1860. Appointed clerk of the council of the provisional government of Kentucky on November 18, 1861. Signed a loyalty oath to the U.S. government on July 7, 1865.
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Political: <rs ref='#S32211014'>Willis Benson Machen (Lyon County, KY, attorney, farmer, iron manufacturer, and politician (KY &amp; Confederate))</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32199774'>Eli Metcalfe Bruce (Kentucky merchant, philanthropist, soldier, Representative (Confederate))</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32203126'>Philip Burton Thompson, Sr. (KY prov govt, attorney )</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32197734'>John Watkins Crockett, Jr. (McCracken &amp; Henderson cos, KY, attorney and representative (Confederate))</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32215130'>Provisional Government of Kentucky</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32211822'>James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32197272'>Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32214939'>Robert McKee (Louisville, KY, newspaper editor and prov govt sec of state)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32207402'>Henry J. Lyons (Kentucky, bank officer, asst QM, prov govt commissioner)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32212441'>Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep )</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32197855'>Theodore Legrand Burnett (Spencer County, KY, representative (Confederate), attorney and soldier)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32210952'>Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician &amp; surgeon, Prov govt )</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32202453'>George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov &amp; CSA))</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32206338'>George W. Johnston (Louisville, KY,  attorney, politician, and judge)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32208150'>James William Moore (Montgomery Co, KY, attorney, judge.Representative (Confederate))</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32201291'>Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)</rs>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Eastern Division, p. 631. <lb/>

A. Frank Brown to Andrew Johnson, July 4, 1865, Case Files of Applications from Former Confederates for Presidential Pardons ("Amnesty Papers"), 1865-67, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M1003, Roll 0025. <lb/>

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, <hi rend='italic'>Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky</hi>, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins &amp; Co., 1878), 97.</bibl>
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                    <p xml:id='OTPS32204676P0'>Executive committee of the provisional Confederate government of Kentucky. Consisted of ten men from ten different congressional districts: Willis B. Machen, John W. Crockett, Jr., James P. Bates, James S. Chrisman, Philip B. Thompson, Jr., Joseph B. Burnside, Horatio W. Bruce, Eli M. Bruce, James W. Moore, and George B. Hodge. President: Willis B. Machen. Clerk: A. Frank Brown.
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Political: <rs ref='#S32215130'>Provisional Government of Kentucky</rs><lb/>
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Political: <rs ref='#S32205289'>William Emmett Simms (Kentucky Confederate soldier and politician)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32201667'>William Preston (Kentucky politician, attorney, and soldier.)</rs><lb/>
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Political: <rs ref='#S32202453'>George Baird Hodge (Kentucky attorney, soldier CSA, Rep to congress (prov gov &amp; CSA))</rs><lb/>
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Political: <rs ref='#S32200668'>James Stone Chrisman (Wayne Co, KY, Prov gov council member, Rep (CSA), attorney)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32211822'>James Preston Bates (Barren Co, Ky, attorney, postmaster, and prov govt)</rs><lb/>
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Political: <rs ref='#S32203953'>Robert Y. Thomas, Sr. (Logan Co, Ky, Methodist minister and prov govt chaplain)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32211875'>Henry Cornelius Burnett (Trigg County, Kentucky, attorney and politician, colonel CSA, prov govt rep &amp; senator)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32197272'>Horatio Washington Bruce (Jefferson County, KY, Representative (Confederate), attorney)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32197010'>A. Frank Brown (Bourbon County, KY, attorney and clerk of prov govt )</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32209912'>Thomas Johnson (Montgomery Co, KY, farmer, prov Congress, maj &amp; lt col KY Mounted Rifles CSA)</rs><lb/>
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Political: <rs ref='#S32208039'>Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America</rs><lb/>
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Political: <rs ref='#S32206571'>Branch Bank of the Farmers' Bank at Princeton</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32203142'>Bank of Kentucky Branch at Hopkinsville</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32199799'>Northern Bank of Kentucky Branch at Glasgow</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32215047'>Bank of Kentucky Branch at Bowling Green</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32204262'>The People's Bank of Kentucky</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32206571'>Branch Bank of the Farmers' Bank at Princeton</rs><lb/>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32199799'>Northern Bank of Kentucky Branch at Glasgow</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32215047'>Bank of Kentucky Branch at Bowling Green</rs><lb/>
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Political: <rs ref='#S32210952'>Samuel S. Scott (Boone Co, KY, physician &amp; surgeon, Prov govt )</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32212441'>Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep )</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32213959'>John Dabney Morris (Christian County, Ky, farmer, colonel (CSA))</rs><lb/>
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Political: <rs ref='#S32199881'>John Dishman (Knox County, Kentucky, attorney and commonwealth's attorney.)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32215445'>Matthew Martin Lyon (Lyon/ Caldwell cos., Kentucky, miller)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32197843'>John J. Thomas (Christian County, KY, farmer, soldier, politician, Provisional Congress of the Confederate States)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32204711'>George Washington Ewing (Logan County, KY, attorney and politician. Representative (Confederate congress))</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32203674'>Daniel Price White (Provisional Congress of the Confederate States)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32198993'>Gabrael J. Salter (Garrard County, Kentucky, farmer and Provisional Congress nominee (C.S.A))</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32208593'>John Milton Elliott (Representative (Confederate))</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32205177'>Samuel Howard Ford (McCracken County &amp; Louisville, KY, Baptist minister, editor, politician, provisional Congress (Confederate))</rs><lb/>
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Political: <rs ref='#S32214035'>Committee on Common Schools</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32200707'>1st Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32210947'>Committee on Enrollments</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32208620'>Committee on Military Affairs</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32205259'>Committee on Ways and Means</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32206698'>John Burnam (Warren Co, KY, merchant, farmer, prov govt rep &amp; treasurer of prov govt)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32208550'>Committee on the Judiciary</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32207112'>Josiah Pillsbury (Warren County, KY, attorney and Confederate state auditor)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32204570'>Granville C. Torbett (Tennessee, State Treasurer, Congressman)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32215409'> Lewis W. Potter (Warren county, Kentucky, farmer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32214027'>Jordan T. C. Moore (Todd Co, Ky, farmer, minister, and prov govt)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32210309'>Robert F. Allison (Todd County, Kentucky, farmer and Provisional Congress county commissioner (C.S.A))</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32210327'>William Grigsby Bullitt (McCracken County, KY, prov govt conv member, attorney)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32204255'>Committee on Banks</rs><lb/>
Economic: <rs ref='#S32204255'>Committee on Banks</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32201282'>Vernon K. Stevenson (Nashville, Davidson County, TN, railroad owner and Quartermaster General (C.S.A.))</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32208658'>James Guthrie (Kentucky U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32200973'>Louisville &amp; Nashville Railroad</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32207185'>William P. Sublett (Warren County, Kentucky, farmer and constable )</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32203579'>Albert T. Potter (Warren County, Kentucky, constable )</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32210317'>Commodore P. Snell (Warren County, Kentucky, constable and private 2nd KY Cav (C.S.A.))</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32197674'>William Henry Payne (Bowling Green, KY, attorney and judge)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32212619'>Birch Musselman (Jefferson County, Kentucky, farmer and Prov Govt financial agent)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32207346'>A. W. Woodruff (prov gov)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32202007'>William B. Martin (Warren County, Kentucky, clerk and Provisional Congress county commissioner (C.S.A))</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32202907'>John Ewing Halsell (County Attorney of Warren County)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32200802'>John G. P. Hooe (Jefferson County, Kentucky, china store owner, soldier, prov govt rep)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32213752'>George Washington Norton (Russellville, Kentucky, banker and financier)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32200813'>Committee on Internal Improvements</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32214118'>William B. Clark (Simpson County, Ky, prov govt com rep)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32197759'>Joseph M. Graves (Hopkinsville, Christian County, KY, schoolteacher and deputy sheriff)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32196936'>Noah N. Johnson (Webster County, KY, farmer and sheriff)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32199081'>Congress of the Confederate States of America</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32212523'>Isham Green Harris (Gov of Tennessee)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32200337'>James M. Mobley (Harris County, Georgia, attorney and secretary of the Georgia senate)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32211386'>John Billups (Athens, Clarke County, Georgia, planter and president of Georgia Senate )</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32205305'>Lafayette Carrington (Georgia, Clerk and teacher)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32214936'>Warren Akin (Cass County, Georgia, attorney and politician (CSA))</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32196892'>House of Representatives of the State of Georgia </rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32211803'>Senate of the State of Georgia</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32206056'>Joseph Emerson Brown (Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia, attorney and governor of Georgia)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32212271'>General Assembly of Georgia</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32210137'>Confederate States Army</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32202775'>John Burton Thompson, Jr. (Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Provis Govt page)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32206290'>House of Representatives of the Confederate States</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32206663'>William M. Johnson (Simpson County, Kentucky, jailor  )</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32211394'>James M. Lane (Simpson County, Kentucky, cabinet maker and farmer)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32204772'>General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32211168'>William J. Williams (Simpson County, Ky, farmer, judge, and prov govt com rep)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32210070'>James W. Bradshaw (Simpson County, Kentucky, merchant and tax assessor )</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32201334'>Samuel R. Hope (Simpson County, Kentucky, tinsmith and justice of the peace )</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32207583'>Clement Fisher (Simpson County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace )</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32199983'>Pascal B. Dunn (Simpson County, Kentucky, Circuit County Clerk)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32213138'>Samuel Davies Blackburn (Warren County, Kentucky, Attorney )</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32212375'>Thomas S. Bocock (Appomattox County, Virginia, attorney and speaker of the Confederate States House of Representatives)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32199069'>Henry English Read (LaRue County, KY, congressman (CSA))</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32204898'>Simpson County Court</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32197695'>Simpson Circuit Court</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32210833'>Warren County Court</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32205587'>Warren Circuit Court</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32201969'>Jefferson Davis (CS President)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32211734'>Walter H. Peters (New Orleans, Louisiana, attorney and bank commissioner (CSA only?))</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32203468'>Senate of the Confederate States</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32203838'>D. M. Christian (Todd Co, Ky, farmer and prov govt)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32210430'>Waddy W. Thompson (Hart County, KY, farmer and prov govt conv rep)</rs><lb/>
Political: <rs ref='#S32205693'>Charles Slaughter Morehead (Governor of Kentucky)</rs>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</hi>, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 222.<lb/>

KYR-0004-033-0003.</bibl>
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<p corresp='TTP35099008P1' xml:id='OTP35099008P1'>Monday <date when='1861-12-02'>December 2<hi rend='sup'>nd</hi> 1861</date>
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