James Calvert

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c1806

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c1876

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"James Calvert" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00000221, (accessed May 15, 2025).

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Boone County, Kentucky, sheriff and politician. Kentucky native. Married Jane Calvert. Father of Lewis L. Calvert, Samuel Calvert, James Calvert, Jr., and Mariah J. Calvert. Sheriff of Boone County in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky for Boone County from 1861 to 1863. Member of the Union Party.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Boone, Burlington, p. 40; Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Boone County, Burlington, p. 5; "Election Returns," The Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), August 13, 1861, p. 4; "Kentucky Legislature," The Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), September 07, 1861, p. 2; Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, eds., History of Kentucky (Covington, Ky.: Collins & Co., 1878), 51.

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