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| | Beriah Magoffin |
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 | | MAGOFFIN, Beriah, governor of Kentucky, born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, 18 April, 1815; died there, 28 February, 1885. |
 | | He was graduated at Center college, Danville, Kentucky, in 1835, and at the law department of Transylvania university in 1838, began practising law at Jackson, Mississippi, in 1839, and was elected reading-clerk of the Mississippi senate, but returned to Harrodsburg the same year, and practised until he was appointed police judge in 1840. |
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