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McCracken County, Kentucky, and Henderson County, Kentucky, attorney and politician (C.S.A.). Jessamine County, Kentucky, native. Married to America Smedley Crockett. Father of John W. Crockett, III, Lucy Crockett, and Americus Crockett. Married to Louisa M. Ingram Crockett in Henderson County on February 27, 1855. Father of Wyatt Ingram Crockett. Educated in Jessamine County, Kentucky, and Hancock County, Illinois. Admitted to the bar and practiced in Paducah, Kentucky, and Henderson, Kentucky, from 1839. Represented the Second Congressional District of Kentucky at the Southern Rights Convention in 1861. Represented Kentucky at the Border Slave State Conference in 1861. Delegate to the provisional government convention in Russellville in November 1861. Member of the Council of Ten in the provisional government of Kentucky. Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary for the provisional government of Kentucky. Member of the House of Representatives of the First Confederate Congress from Kentucky's Second Congressional District from 1862 to 1864. Returned to Henderson, Kentucky, to practice law after the war.
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Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney, educator, and politician. Lewis County, Kentucky, native. Son of Alexander Bruce and Amanda Bragg Bruce. Married to Elizabeth “Lizzie” Barbour Helm Bruce in Hardin County on June 12, 1856. Father of Lucinda Hardin Bruce, John Helm Bruce, and Elizabeth “Lizzie” Barbour Bruce. Educated in Manchester, Ohio. Taught two terms of school in Lewis County in 1849 and 1850. Studied law and admitted to the bar in 1851. Practiced law in Flemingsburg, Kentucky. Member of the Whig Party, American “Know-Nothing” Party, and Southern Rights Party. Elected as an American “Know-Nothing” Party member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1855. Commonwealth’s attorney for the Tenth District from 1856 to 1859. Removed to Louisville, Kentucky in 1858. Formed the law partnership of Helm and Bruce with Ben Hardin Helm. Judge in Louisville in 1860. Owned five enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Member of the convention of the provisional government held at Russellville in November 1861. Member of the Council of Ten, chair of the Committee on Foreign Relations, and member of the Committee on the Judiciary for the provisional government of Kentucky. Member of the House of Representatives of the First and Second Confederate Congress from the Seventh Congressional District of Kentucky from 1862 to 1865.
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Wayne County, Kentucky, attorney, farmer, and politician. Kentucky native. Married to Lucy Nelson Bell Chrisman. Father of Alice Chrisman, Amelia B. Chrisman, Micah T. Chrisman, Fannie Chrisman, Lucy D. Chrisman, Jimonie Chrisman, Cabell P. Chrisman, and Frances Esler Chrisman Brown. Engaged in agriculture, studied law, and admitted to the bar in 1849. Practiced law in Monticello, Kentucky. Member of the 1849 Kentucky Constitutional Convention from Wayne County, Kentucky. Owned five enslaved persons in Wayne County in 1850. Democratic party member of the United States House of Representative from the Fourth Congressional District of Kentucky from 1853 to 1855. Owned six enslaved persons in Wayne County in 1860. Member of the Council of Ten in the Provisional Government of Kentucky. Member of the Committee on Foreign Relations for the Provisional Government of Kentucky. Fifth Congressional District Member of the House of Representatives of the First and Second Confederate Congress from 1862 to 1865.
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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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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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Monday December 23rd 1861
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Mr H. W. Bruce moved a reconsideration of the vote by which the bill entitled "an ^act^ to raise and arm thirty regiments of Volunteer infantry and Cavalry" was passed" and the vote being taken on said motion it was decided in the affirmative.
And then on motion the vote by which the third reading of said bill was dispensed with was also reconsidered.
Mr H. W. Bruce moved that said now be referred to a select Committee of three with instructions to report, which motion prevailed Where upon the President Pro Tem appointed on said Committee Messrs
On motion Mr Crockett was added to said Committee.
And then the Council adjourned until tomorrow at 10 O'Clock A. M.
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