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In Their Own Words

John Thornton Posey, JD’49

  • Author
  • General Thomas Posey: Son of the American Revolution
  • ISBN 0-87013-316-0
  • Michigan State University Press

A narrative biography of Thomas Posey (1750-1818), a Virginia-born neighbor of George Washington, who served with distinction in the American Revolution and later settled on the western frontier, where he served as lieutenant-governor of Kentucky, U.S. senator from Louisiana, and territorial governor of Indiana during its transition to statehood.

Posted April 8, 2005