Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky, by H. Levin, editor, 1897. Published
by Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago.  Reprinted by Southern Historical
Press.  p. 182.  Woodford County.

THOMAS F. MARSHALL was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, June 7, 1801, and
died near Versailles, September 22, 1864.  His father was Dr. Lewis
Marshall, a brother of Chief Justice Marshall, of the United States
supreme court.  He was educated largely by his parents and completed his
literary studies under the supervision of a relative, James Marshall, in
Virginia.  He studied law with John J. Crittenden, represented Woodford
county in the legislature in 1832 and located in Louisville in 1833.
He was elected to the legislature for the term of 1835-6 and was defeated
in his aspiration to represent the Louisville district in congress by
William J. Graves.
     Returning to Woodford county, which continued thenceforth to be
his home, he represented the county in the legislature in 1838-1839 and
1851-1852, while for one term, 1841-1843, he was representative of the
Ashland district in congress.  His contest in 1845 with Garrett Davis for
a seat in congress is a memorable one in the annals of politics in
Kentucky.  He was a Whig for a time, but had a disagreement with Henry
Clay, taking issue with him concerning the United States Bank charter,
the bankrupt bill, and the Texas annexation question.  He served one year
as a captain of a cavalry company in the war with Mexico and offered as
a candidate for the constitutional convention in 1849, but was defeated.
He canvassed the state for James K. Polk in opposition to Clay, and
advocated Gen. Winfield Scott's claims to the presidency in 1852.  He
gained an unenviable notoriety as a duelist, having met in such combat
Hon. John Rowan, Col. James Watson Webb, and General James S. Jackson.
     In various cities he delivered a series of lectures on historic
subjects that evidenced great ability as a scholar, showing extended
research and affording ample scope for the play of those powers of oratory
for which he was noted.  One of his most finished orations was a tribute
to the memory of the Hon. Richard H. Menefee, fittingly described as
"a tribute of brilliant, but erratic genius to genius still more
brilliant, but self-poised and commanding."  His was a genius without
stability or moral rectitude.  He achieved fame as an orator, but left
no impress upon the period of his life of special benefit to his race
or of service to his state or country.

Marshall Crittenden Graves Davis Polk Menefee
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Franklin-KY VA

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