Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published
by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago.  Reprinted by Southern Historical
Press.  p. 94.  Graves County.

RUFUS K. WILLIAMS, one of the chief justices of the court of appeals,
resided at the time of his elevation to the bench in Mayfield.  He was a
prominent figure in the western part of the state, a delegate to the
Democratic national convention in 1860, in Charleston, and was one of the
delegates who aided in the nomination of J. C. Breckinridge for the
presidency.  In 1861 he was a delegate to the border state convention in
the interest of harmony and peace, and on the opening of the war espoused
the cause of the Union.  In 1862 he was elected for a full term of eight
years to the court of appeals bench, and during the last two years of
his service was chief justice.  Shortly after the close of his term he
withdrew from the state, removing to Utah.

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