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Collection Overview
Scope and Contents of the Materials
A letter from Felix Grundy and others asking Shelby to run for governor of Kentucky. A woodcut of Grundy is attached.
Biographical Note
Felix Grundy (September 11, 1775 – December 19, 1840) was a congressman and senator from Tennessee and served as the 13th Attorney General of the United States. Born in Berkeley County, Virginia (now Berkeley County, West Virginia), he moved to Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and then Kentucky with his parents. He was educated at home and at the Bardstown Academy in Bardstown, Kentucky. He then studied law and was admitted to the Kentucky bar and commenced practice in Springfield, Kentucky, in 1799. In 1799, he was chosen to represent Washington County at the convention that drafted the second Kentucky Constitution. From 1800 to 1802, he represented Washington County in the Kentucky House of Representatives. He then moved to Nelson County, which he represented in the Kentucky House from 1804 to 1806. On December 10, 1806, he was commissioned an associate justice on the Kentucky Court of Appeals. He was elevated to Chief Justice of the court on April 11, 1807. Later that year, he resigned and moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he again took up the practice of law.
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Administrative Information
Repository:
Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives
Acquisition Source:
Found in Collections.
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- Folder 1
- Item 1: ALS James Cox, et al to Isaac Shelby, 1807
- Letter asking Shelby to consider running for governor in the upcoming election. Signed by James Cox, H. Chist?, Mich'l Campbell, John Bullock, James Slaughter, Atkinson Hill, Gardom Grundy, Presly Slaughter and Felix Grundy, with a personal note by F. Grundy.
- Item 2: Engraving of Felix Grundy
