US Magoffin, Beriah Jr. - Gov. of KY

Beriah Magoffin Jr.

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Born: April 18, 1815

Birthplace: Harrodsburg, Kentucky

Father: Beriah Magoffin Sr. 1773 – 1843
(Buried: Spring Hill Cemetery, Harrodsburg, Kentucky)​

Mother: Jane McAfee 1778 – 1858

Brother: Colonel Ebenezer Magoffin 1817 – 1865
(Buried: Woodlawn Cemetery, Independence, Missouri)​

Wife: Anna Nelson Shelby 1818 – 1880
(Buried: Spring Hill Cemetery, Harrodsburg, Kentucky)​

Married: April 21, 1840 in Harrodsburg, Kentucky

Children:


Colonel Beriah Magoffin III 1843 – 1932​
(Buried: Spring Hill Cemetery, Harrodsburg, Kentucky)​
Jane Marie Magoffin Hutchinson 1849 – 1873​
(Buried: Spring Hill Cemetery, Harrodsburg, Kentucky)​
Ebenezer Magoffin 1851 – 1936​
(Buried: Spring Hill Cemetery, Harrodsburg, Kentucky)​
Anna Shelby Magoffin Tucker 1853 – 1919
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(Buried: Spring Hill Cemetery, Harrodsburg, Kentucky)​
Samuel McAfee Magoffin 1859 – 1934​
(Buried: Spring Hill Cemetery, Harrodsburg, Kentucky)​

Political Party: Democratic Party

Education:


Graduated from Centre College​
1838: Graduated from Transylvania University Law School​

Occupation before War:

Attorney in Jackson, Mississippi​
1838 – 1839: Reading Clerk for Mississippi State Senate​
1839 – 1840: Attorney in Harrodsburg, Kentucky​
1840 – 1844: Harrodsburg, Kentucky, Judge of Police Court​
1844: Democratic Party Presidential Elector​
1844 – 1859: Attorney in Harrodsburg, Kentucky​
1848: Kentucky Delegate Democratic Party National Convention​
1848: Democratic Party Presidential Elector​
1850: Kentucky State Senator​
1851: Declined Democratic Party Nomination for U.S. Congress.​
1852: Democratic Party Presidential Elector​
1854: Unsuccessful Democratic Candidate for Lt. Governor.​
1856: Kentucky Delegate, Democratic Party National Convention​
1856: Democratic Party Presidential Elector​
1859 – 1862: Governor of Kentucky​
Supporter of States Rights and Slavery.​
1860: Kentucky Delegate, Democratic Party National Convention​
1860: Author of plan to Save the Union, that was distributed to Governors of States on the urge of leaving the Union.​

Civil War Career:

1861: Called the state legislature into special session, and asked them to call a convention to decide on secession.​
1861: In Response to President Lincoln’s call for volunteers, he responded, “I will send not a man nor a dollar for the wicked purpose of subduing my sister southern states.”​
1861: He refused Confederate Secretary of War Leroy P. Walker’s request for Kentucky troops for the southern cause.​
1861: Called another special session of the legislature, but the legislatures refused to call a convention to determine the course of war, and in fact approved a neutrality resolution.​
1861: The General Assembly became controlled by Unionists, and they voted to over-ride his vetoes as Governor.
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1861: In September, he declared both Confederate and Union as violating the neutrality resolution when they both entered Kentucky. The legislature passed only a resolution to make the Confederate Army vacant, and Governor Magoffin vetoed the resolution, but his veto was overridden by the legislature.​
1861: He denounced the actions of Russellville, Kentucky Convention.​
1861: The Kentucky State legislature started calling for his resignation.​
1862: His veto of a bill forfeiting the citizenship of anyone who fought or aided the Confederacy by the state legislature.​
1862: Resigned as Governor of Kentucky on August 18th​.​
1862 – 1885: Attorney and Farmer in Harrodsburg, Kentucky​

Occupation after War:

Held a series of land speculation near Chicago which made him wealthy.​
Advocated for Civil Rights and urged passage of 13th​ Amendment.​
1867 – 1869: Kentucky State Representative​
1872: Kentucky Delegate Democratic Party National Convention​

Died:
February 28, 1885

Place of Death: Harrodsburg, Kentucky

Age at time of Death: 69 years old

Burial Place: Spring Hill Cemetery, Harrodsburg, Kentucky
 
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