Kentucky. Governor (1863-1867 : Bramlette)

Thomas E. Bramlette became governor of Kentucky in 1863 as a Union Democrat. Elected in the middle of the Civil War, he served through the rest of the war and into the recovery period.

Bramlette was born in 1817, in what was then Cumberland County, Kentucky. He attended local common schools, and eventually studied law, becoming a member of the bar in 1837. In 1841, he was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives for one term as a Whig. He later served as commonwealth's attorney and as judge of the Sixth Judicial Circuit.

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