Boyle County, Kentucky Genealogy Trails

Biographies

JOHN MARSHALL HARLAN, Washington, D. C.
Born in Boyle County, Kentucky, June 1, 1833. Graduated from Center College, Kentucky, 1850. Studied Law at 'Transylvania University.
Practiced his profession at Frankfort, Kentucky. Presiding Judge of Franklin County, Kentucky, Court, 1858-9. Attorney-General of
Kentucky. Elector on the Bell and Everett Ticket, 1860. Removed to Louisville. Colonel of 10th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry,
Union Army, 1861, in General Geo. H. Thomas' Original Division of the Army of Ohio. Resigned, 1863, at the time commanding 2nd
Brigade, 3rd Division, 4th Army Corps, although his name was before the Senate for confWas elected Attorney-General by the Union party of Kentucky, 1863, and filled the office until 1867, when he returned to active practice in Louisville. Republican nominee for Governor of Kentucky, 1871 and 1875. He was declared to be the candidate of Kentucky for the Vice- Presidency by the State Convention in 1872. He was Chairman of
the Kentucky Delegation to the National Republican Convention at Cincinnati, in 1876. Declined a diplomatic position as a substitute
for the Attorney-Generalship, to which, before he reached Washington, President Hayes intended to assign him. Served as a member of
the Louisiana Commission. Member of Behring Sea Tribunal of Arbitration. Was commissioned an Associate Justice of the United States
Supreme Court, November 29, 1877, and took his seat December 10, of same year.
(Res.) University Park, Fourteenth street and Euclid avenue, N. W.
[Source: Catalogue of the Legal Fraternity PHI DELTA PHI, 7th edition, 1807 - contributed by: C. Horton 2008]

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