Pettit, Thomas Stevenson, 1843-1931.

Journalist, Politician.

Pettit, a native of Frankfort, began his journalistic career working in a print shop. In 1864 he purchased the Owensboro MONITOR. His editorials criticizing the Republican Party and the war policies of the Lincoln administration quickly resulted in an arrest by military authorities and his subsequent banishment to the Confederacy. Upon his return after the War, Pettit found his newspaper office had been destroyed by the federal army. He reestablished the MONITOR and entered politics, serving as reading clerks in both the Kentucky and U.S. House of Representatives, and as private secretary to Governor James B. McCreary.

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