Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published
by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago.  Reprinted by Southern Historical
Press.  p. 158.  Franklin County.

THOMAS BELL MONROE was born in Albermarle [sic] county, Virginia, October
7, 1791, and died December 24, 1865. His name is inseparable connected
with the history of jurisprudence in Kentucky.  He was of the same family
as President James Monroe.  His parents removed to Scott county, Kentucky,
as early as 1793; after attaining man's estate Mr. Monroe removed to
Barren county.
     In 1816 he was elected to the legislature, and in 1819 began to study
and practice law.  In 1821 he removed to Frankfort and in the winter of
that year attended lectures in the law department of Transylvania
University, where he graduated.  In September, 1823, he became secretary
of state under Governor Adair, serving one year, and in 1825, by
appointment of Governor Desha, he became reporter of of the decisions of
the court of appeals, and published Monroe's Kentucky Reports in seven
volumes.  September 29, 1830, he became United States district attorney
for Kentucky, and March 8, 1834, was appointed judge of the United States
district court for Kentucky, by Andrew Jackson.  After filling that
position for more than twenty-seven years, he abandoned his office and
home and fled to the Confederate lines.
     As a judge his decisions were of the highest order, being seldom
reversed, and his long term of service was characterized by learning,
justice and fairness.  He became a professor in the University of
Louisiana in 1848 and spent several winters in New Orleans in discharge
of the duties of that position; afterward filled the chair of civil,
international and criminal law in Transylvania University at Lexington;
was also professor of rhetoric, logic and history of law at the Western
Military Academy at Drennon Springs; and had the degree of LL. D.
conferred upon him by the University of Louisiana, Center College and
Harvard University.  He was an early supporter of the doctrines of Thomas
Jefferson, but after becoming judge took no active part in politics.
     For his wife he married Eliza Palmer Adair, daughter of Governor
John Adair.

Monroe Adair
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Scott-KY Fayette-KY Barren-KY Albemarle-VA LA

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