Thomas W. Bullitt was born at Oxmoor in Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1838, a representative of one of Kentucky's oldest and most distinguished families. Raised on the family estate, he attended Centre College, graduating in 1858. He then went to...
Thumbnail portraits of men who had represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. Senate, including John G. Carlisle, James B. Beck, Henry Clay, John J. Crittenden, and Richard M. Johnson.
W. C. P. Breckinridge was born in Baltimore, Md., in 1837. He was educated at Pisgah Academy in Woodford County, Kentucky, before attending Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, where he graduated in 1855. He received a law degree from the...
Watson A. Sudduth was born in Bath County, Kentucky in 1854. He graduated from Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, in 1874, read law in the office of Andrews & Sudduth, and was admitted to practice in 1876. He grew a successful practice in...
Wilbur Fisk Browder was born in Clarksville, Tenn., in 1848, but was chiefly reared in Montgomery, Ala. When sixteen years old, he entered the Randolph Macon College, of Virginia, attending one year, before transferring to the University of...
Lawyers; Municipal officials; Legislators; Portraits
William C. G. Hobbs was born in St. Clair, Tenn., in 1864. He received his public school education in the schools of Lee County, Virginia, and Eastern Tennessee, after which he attended the Medical College of East Tennessee. Later, he dedicated to...
William Henry Wadsworth was born in Maysville, Kentucky, on July 4, 1821. He was educated at the Maysville Seminary, becoming a lifelong friend of Ulysses S. Grant, After study in Augusta College, he read law in the office of Payne & Waller and...
William J. Hendrick was born near Flemingsburg in 1855. He graduated Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, in 1873. He read law and was admitted to the Fleming County bar in 1870. In 1881, he was elected to the Kentucky legislature and he represented...
William LeRoy Dulaney was born in York, Ill., in 1838. He attended Centre College, graduating in1857. He read law under Judge W.V. Loving and was admitted to the bar in 1860. He served as city attorney of Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 1860 but joined...
William Lindsay was born 1835 in Virginia. He settled in Clinton in Hickman County, Kentucky, in 1854, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Clinton in 1858. Served as judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals 1870-1878 and as chief...
William Morgan Beckner was born in 1841 in Moorefield, in Nicholas County, Kentucky. He attended the schools of Bath and Fleming counties, before attending Centre College in Danville. He read law under Judge E. C. Phister and was admitted to the...
William Murphy Reed, of Benton, Kentucky, was born in 1848, in Graves County, Kentucky. He acquired his education in Benton Seminary, of Marshall County, Kentucky, and in Princeton College. He read law with Philander Palmer, of Benton, Kentucky,...
William P. D. Bush was born in 1823 on his father's farm in Hardin County, Kentucky. He was educated at the Hardin Seminary in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. After reading law, in 1846 he was admitted to the bar and was appointed deputy clerk of the...
Lawyers; Municipal officials; Legislators; Judges; Portraits
William Pollitt McClain was born in 1849 in Henderson, Kentucky. He attended Notre Dame College, graduating in 1869. He then attended the law department of the University of Virginia, graduating in 1872. After practicing law in Missouri, he...
William Walter Cleary was born in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1831. He was an 1849 graduate of Transylvania University and in 1849, graduated from its law department with honors. In 1852, he was admitted to the bar and settled in Cynthiana, Kentucky....
Willis Overton Harris was born in 1847 in Powhatan County, Virginia. He entered Virginia Military Institute in 1863 and fought in the Civil War with VMI cadet corps until wars end, receiving an honorary degree in 1867. He attended University of...
