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Marshall, Thomas

soldier, was born April 13, 1793, in Mason county, Ky.

He was in the Kentucky legislature several times between 1817 and 1844, serving one term as speaker of that body. was commissioned a brigadier-general of volunteers in the Mexican war, and commanded a Kentucky brigade. He died March 28, 1853, in Lewis county, Ky.

MARSHALL, THOMAS ALEXANDER, educator, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 15, 1794, in Woodford county, Ky. He was a representative in congress from Kentucky from 1831 to 1835; and was a judge and chief justice of the court of appeals of Kentucky for about twenty years. He was a professor of law in the Transylvania college; and also served in the legislature of Kentucky. He died April 17, 1861, in Louisville, Ky.

MARSHALL, THOMAS ALEXANDER, lawyer, jurist, journalist, was born March 29, 1812, in Augusta, Ky. He was judge of the Vicksburg circuit court; and a publisher and editor of Swedes and Marshall's Reports of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.

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