Requisitions for the return of fugitives from justice, 1857-1859.

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Requisitions for the return of fugitives from justice, 1857-1859.

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These are requests to Governor Charles Morehead from governors of other states asking for the return of fugitives from justice. Included is a request from Mississippi for the return of a man charged with stealing negroes, and from Louisiana of a man accused of murder.

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Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives, Kentucky State Archives

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Morehead, Charles, 1802-1868.

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Kentucky. Governor (1855-1859 : Morehead)

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James Turner Morehead became the twelfth governor and the first native-born Kentuckian to hold that office after the death of Governor John Breathitt in February 1834. The succession of Lieutenant Governor Morehead to the governorship proved a sharp disappointment to the young Democratic party since Breathitt, a Democrat, and Morehead, a National Republican, had been elected on a split ticket. Morehead was born in 1797, in Bullitt County, Kentucky. He attended Transylvan...