Franklin County, KY - Bios:  Knott, J. Proctor
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J. Proctor KNOTT 3400, Franklin Co. 

Surname: Knott

Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 5th ed., 1887, Franklin Co. 

HON. J. PROCTOR KNOTT was born in Marion County, Ky., on August 29, 1830. He received a 
liberal education, and subsequently engaged in the study of law. In 1850 he located in Missouri, 
and was elected to the Legislature of that State in 1858, but resigned from that body the year 
following. In 1860, he was elected attorney-general of Missouri, and was a delegate to the 
Missouri Convention in 1861. He returned to Kentucky in 1862, and in 1867, was elected 
representative from Kentucky to the Fortieth Congress, serving on the committee on mines and 
minings. He was re-elected to the Forty-first and Forty-fourth sessions of Congress, serving on 
important committees, and acquiring a nation reputation, and continued to serve acceptably in 
Congress until 1883, when he decline a re-election. In that year he was elected governor of the 
State of Kentucky, and still fills that important position with dignity and ability, being 
recognized as one of the most cultivated and representative men in the State.