Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago. Reprinted by Southern Historical Press. p. 87. Barren County. BEN MILLS CRENSHAW was chief justice of the court of appeals at the time of his death in 1857. He was a resident of Barren county, Kentucky, and represented that county in the house at Frankfort from 1840 to 1842; he was state senator from the district including Barren county from 1844 to 1848; and was presidential elector for the first district of Kentucky at the election of 1844, casting his vote for Henry Clay, James K. Polk being the successful candidate. While in the state senate he was a member of the committee that reported adversely to the confirmation of the appointment of George B. Kinkead to succeed Ben Hardin as secretary of state in the historical contest between Governor William Owsley and Mr. Hardin in the effort of the former to remove the latter from office. On the 12th of May, 1851, Mr. Crenshaw was elected to the court of appeals bench, at the first election held after the adopting of the constitution of 1849, and died in office May 5, 1857. He had become chief justice in 1856. Judge Crenshaw was highly esteemed in his home county and by the bar throughout the state. Crenshaw Kinkead Hardin = none http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/barren/crenshaw.bm.txt