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Isaac Herschel Goodnight

Isaac Herschel Goodnight, of Franklin, Kentucky, was born in Allen County, Kentucky, January 31, 1849, where he lived on a farm until November, 1870; moved to Franklin; received his primary education in the common schools; graduated from Cumberland University, Tennessee, in 1872; attended the law department of the same university until 1873; practiced law; represented Simpson County in the State legislature in 1877-78; elected to the Fifty-first Congress as a Democrat, and reelected to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses; elected judge of the seventh Kentucky circuit court district.



Source: History of Kentucky, Volume II, by Lewis Collins, Published by Collins & Company,
Covington, Kentucky, 1874




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