Unknown-Jefferson County KyArchives Biographies.....Graves, William Jourdan 1805 - September 27 1848
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Author: The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Kentucky, J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878
Hon. William Jourdan Graves, Lawyer, was born in 1805. He studied law, and took 
a high rank in his profession. He served as a member of the Kentucky 
Legislature, and, from 1835 to 1840, was in the Lower House of Congress. In 
1848, he was a candidate for Governor, in the convention that nominated Hon. 
John J. Crittenden. He was a man of uncommon talents, and stood very high in 
the State he engaged in a duel, in 1838, at Bladensburg, Maryland, with 
Jonathan Gilley, in which the latter was killed. Mr. Graves died September 27, 
1848, in the city of Louisville.
 
 
 
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