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Thomas H. Crawford | |
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13th Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky | |
In office April 2, 1859 –April 4, 1861 | |
Preceded by | Thomas W. Riley |
Succeeded by | John M. Delph |
Personal details | |
Born | Rockbridge County,Virginia,U.S. | March 1,1803
Died | June 17,1871 68) | (aged
Resting place | Cave Hill Cemetery Louisville,Kentucky,U.S. |
Political party | Know Nothing Unionist |
Thomas Howell Crawford (March 1,1803 –June 17,1871) was the thirteenth Mayor of Louisville,Kentucky from April 2,1859,to April 4,1861.
Thomas H. Crawford was born in Rockbridge County,Virginia. His mother was the first woman to undergo an ovariectomy,in 1809 in Danville,Kentucky to remove a tumor. [1]
Crawford was elected to the Board of Aldermen in 1857 as a Know Nothing and served as president of the board in 1858,and elected mayor in 1859. He was a strong supporter of the North during the Civil War. He ran for mayor unsuccessfully in 1863 on the Unionist ticket.
After his term expired he worked as a real estate agent and was also president of the Central Savings Bank of Pewee Valley until his death. He was one of the first Kentuckians to install gas lights in his home,and died there as a result of an explosion on May 27,1871. He is buried in Cave Hill Cemetery.
James Guthrie was an American lawyer,plantation owner,railroad president and Democratic Party politician in Kentucky. He served as the 21st United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Franklin Pierce,and then became president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. After serving,part-time,in both houses of the Kentucky legislature as well as Louisville's City Council before the American Civil War,Guthrie became one of Kentucky's United States Senators in 1865. Guthrie strongly opposed proposals for Kentucky to secede from the United States and attended the Peace Conference of 1861. Although he sided with the Union during the Civil War,he declined President Abraham Lincoln's offer to become the Secretary of War. As one of Kentucky's Senators after the war,Guthrie supported President Andrew Johnson and opposed Congressional Reconstruction.
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