Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published
by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago.  Reprinted by Southern Historical
Press.  p. 119.  Jefferson County.

CHARLES S. MOREHEAD, lawyer and one of the governors of Kentucky, was
born July 7, 1802, in Nelson county, Kentucky, graduated at Transylvania
University, and settled in Christian county, where he engaged in the
practice of the law.  In 1827 he was elected to the legislature, was
re-elected, removed to Frankfort and continued successfully in his
profession, was appointed attorney general of Kentucky in 1832, holding
the office five years, was elected to the legislature from Franklin
county, and from 1838-1844; was speaker of the house in 1840, 1841 and
again in 1844; in 1853 he was again elected to the legislature, in 1855
he was elected governor of the state and held the office for the regular
term of four years, his administration being characterized by wisdom and
justice and receiving the general approbation of the people; in 1859 he
located in Louisville in the practice of the law.
     He was a delegate to the peace conference at Washington city in 1861,
and subsequently at the border state convention which met at Frankfort,
and used his influence in every possible way to avert the impending war.
He was for a time a civil prisoner, and lost a great part of his property
during the war.  He was one of the state's most exemplary men and an able
lawyer.  He died on his plantation near Greenville, Mississippi,
December 23, 1868.

Morehead
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Nelson-KY Fayette-KY Christian-KY Franklin-KY MS

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