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1839/40 Governor of Kentucky
Postmaster General under President Tyler

1850 Census. Nelson Co KY
Hh 753
C.A. Wickliffe, 61, Lawyer, b. KY. Margaret, 61.
John C. 19
Robt Wickliffe 31, Lawyer. Annie D. 26, Margaret E. 6

1860 Census. Nelson Co KY, Bardstown
Hh 575
C. Wickliffe, 72, Lawyer, b. KY. Marg. 71.
W. G. Beckham, 28, Lawyer. J. [female - this was daughter Julia] age 25. Chas. 3, Mary 1.

Children noted other than John, Robert, and Julia above were Elizabeth who married William Kinkead, and daughters Mary, Nancy [Nannie who married David ?Yull] and Margaret.

On a list of Kentucky Lawyers in 1959
Nelson Co, Bardstown:
C. A. Wickliffe, J. C. Wickliffe, Robert Logan Wickliffe [possibly a nephew?]

Charles A. Wickliffe
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Anderson Wickliffe, politician, born in Bardstown, Kentucky, 8 June 1788; died in Ilchester in Howard County, Maryland, 31 October 1869. He was educated at the Bardstown grammar-school, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1809, and began practice in Bardstown. He soon achieved distinction as a lawyer. He was aide to General Samuel Caldwell at the battle of the Thames, 5 October 1813, was a member of the state house of representatives in 1814-'23, and sat in congress from Kentucky in 1823-'33, having been chosen as a Henry Clay Democrat. He was then elected again to the state legislature, and was its speaker in 1834. In 1836 he was elected lieutenant-governor of his native state, and in 1839 he became acting governor. In 1841 he was appointed postmaster-general by President Tyler, holding the post till March, 1845, and in the latter year he was sent by President Polk; on a secret mission to Texas in the interests of annexation. He was a member of the State constitutional convention of 1845, a member of the Peace congress in February, 1861, served again in congress in 1861-'03, having been chosen as a Union Whig, and was a delegate to the Chicago national Democratic convention of 1864. Mr. Wickliffe was wealthy, and his aristocratic bearing and contempt for the poorer classes won him the name of "the Duke."

Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
WICKLIFFE, Charles Anderson, (1788 - 1869)
WICKLIFFE, Charles Anderson, (grandfather of Robert Charles Wickliffe and John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham), a Representative from Kentucky; born near Springfield, Washington County, Ky., June 8, 1788; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1809 and commenced practice in Bardstown; served in the War of 1812; was aide to General Winlock; member of the State house of representatives in 1812 and 1813; again entered the Army as aide to General Caldwell; again a member of the State house of representatives in 1822, 1823, and 1833-1835, and served as speaker in 1834; elected as a Jackson Republican to the Eighteenth Congress; reelected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth through the Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1833); chairman, Committee on Public Lands (Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination; one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1830 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against James H. Peck, United States judge for the district of Missouri; Lieutenant Governor in 1836; became Governor upon the death of Governor Clark and served from October 5, 1839, to September 1840; Postmaster General from October 13, 1841, to March 6, 1845; sent on a secret mission by President Polk to the Republic of Texas in 1845; member of the State constitutional convention in 1849; member of the peace conference held at Washington, D.C., in 1861 in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war; elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1861-March 3, 1863); did not seek renomination; unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1863; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1864; died near Ilchester, Md., October 31, 1869; interment in Bardstown Cemetery, Bardstown, Ky.
and his grandson:
WICKLIFFE, Robert Charles, (grandson of Charles Anderson Wickliffe and cousin of John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham), a Representative from Louisiana; born in Bardstown, Ky., May 1, 1874, while his parents were on a visit to relatives in that State; attended the public schools of St. Francisville, La.; was graduated from Centre College, Danville, Ky., in 1895 and from the law department of Tulane University, New Orleans, La., in 1897; was admitted to the bar in 1898 and commenced practice in St. Francisville, La.; member of the State constitutional convention in 1898; enlisted as a private in Company E, First Regiment, Louisiana Volunteer Infantry, during the Spanish-American War; was mustered out of the service in October 1898; returned to West Feliciana Parish; district attorney of the twenty-fourth judicial district of Louisiana 1902-1906; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses and served from March 4, 1909, until June 11, 1912, when he was killed while crossing a railroad bridge in Washington, D.C.; interment in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.

Birth	8 Jun 1788
Marriage	25 Feb 1813	Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky - Margaret Crepps
Death	31 Oct 1869

Spouse	Margaret Crepps ( - )
Child	Robert Charles Wickliffe (1819 - 1895)
Child	John Crepps Wickliffe (1831 - )
Child	Julia Wickliffe (1835 - )

Father	Charles Wickliffe ( - 1816)
Mother	Lydia Hardin (1748 - )
Sibling	Robert Wickliffe (1775 - )
Sibling	Martin Hardin Wickliffe ( - )
Sibling	Mary Wickliffe (1772 - 1827)
Sibling	Nathaniel Wickliffe (1784 - )
Sibling	Lydia Wickliffe ( - )
Sibling	Living
Sibling	Elizabeth Wickliffe ( - )
Sibling	[Daughter] Wickliffe ( - 1816)
Sibling	Sarah Wickliffe ( - 1816)