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Title	Solomon P. Sharp.
Creator	Levin, H. (editor)
Contributors	Lewis Publishing Company (publisher)
Description	Solomon P. Sharp was born in 1787 in Virginia. His family moved to Logan County in Kentucky shortly before the end of the century. Sharp was called to the bar in his early 20's, opening a legal practice first in Russellville, Kentucky, later in Bowling Green, Kentucky. In 1809, he was elected to represent Warren County in the lower house of the Kentucky legislature, where he served until 1812. He was elected to US Congress in 1813 and reelected once before losing his seat in 1817. He returned to the Kentucky House and in 1821 he was appointed Kentucky's attorney general. In 1825, Sharp was fatally stabbed by Jereboam Beauchamp. Beauchamp believed that Sharp had offended the honor of his wife, the former Anna Cooke, and his story was celebrated as the "Kentucky Tragedy" by poets and novelists as diverse as Edgar Allen Poe and Robert Penn Warren.
Subject	Lawyers Legislators Portraits
People Pictured	Sharp, Solomon P.
Date Original	1897
Object Type	Book illustrations
Source	28 x 22 cm. b&w plate. Opposite p. 109 in H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky. Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co, 1897. In Law Library Rare Book Collection.
Citation Information	Levin, H. The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky. Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co, 1897.
Collection	Law Library Collection
Collection Website	http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/law/
Digital Publisher	Law Library of the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville
Format	image/jpeg
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