2nd Congressional District of Kentucky

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1792

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"2nd Congressional District of Kentucky" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/O00003024, (accessed April 26, 2024).

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Comprised of the following counties in 1861: Henderson, Daviess, Hancock, Breckinridge, McLean, Ohio, Grayson, Muhlenberg, Butler, and Christian. The district was expanded to include Hopkins County in 1863 and 1865. Representative(s): Samuel O. Peyton (1857-1861), James S. Jackson (1861), Vacant (1861-1862); George H. Yeaman (1862-1865), and Burwell C. Ritter (1865-1867). Provisional Government representative to Congress of the Confederate States of America: John Watkins Crockett, Jr.

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress,
(http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp); See Congressional District maps.
"Chapter 913," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1861, 1862 and 1863), 348-49.
KYR-0004-033-0003.

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