Thomas Paine Porter

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1821-07-07

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1900-10-15

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"Thomas Paine Porter" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00020457, (accessed April 30, 2025).

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Woodford County, Kentucky, attorney, politician, and acting Lieutenant Governor. Madison County, Kentucky, native. Son of Charles C. Porter. Graduate of Transylvania University Law School in 1842. Admitted to the bar in 1845. Married to America McAfee Porter in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on March 11, 1846. Father of America Porter. Married to Susan V. Hancock Porter in Woodford County, Kentucky, on March 16, 1848. Father of Jessamine Porter. Attorney in Woodford County in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in Woodford County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Woodford County from 1853 to 1855. Member of the Democratic party. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Woodford County from 1857 to 1861. Attorney in Woodford County in 1860. Owned twenty-one enslaved persons in Woodford County in 1860. Speaker of the Senate and acting Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1859 to 1861.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, District 1, p. 437A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, District 1.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, Versailles, p. 836.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, Versailles, p. 491B.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000818482, p. 40.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Woodford County Marriages, Film 000252328, p. 236.
"Death of Gov. Thos. P. Porter," The Frankfort Roundabout (Frankfort, Kentucky), October 20, 1900, p. 4.
H. Charles Ulman, Lawyers' Record and Official Register of the United States, (New York: A.S. Barnes & Company, 1872), p. 520.
Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 764.
The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 261-263.

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