Alexander Pope Humphrey

Judge Alexander Pope Humphrey (1848 - 1928), also known as A. P. Humphrey or Alex P. Humphrey, was born in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky and was a noted lawyer and judge. He attended Centre College in Danville, Kentucky and the University of Virginia law school..

A. P. Humphrey was a chancellor of the Louisville, Kentucky chancery court (a court of equity), having been appointed at age thirty-two to fill the unexpired term of Judge Horatio Washington Bruce who had resigned on March 10, 1880 to accept a position as attorney for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.

He was a member of the law firm Humphrey, Crawford, and Middleton, and was counsel to the Southern Railway Company and other corporations. He was a member of the law firm of Barr, Goodloe & Humphrey. The law partners of Barr, Goodloe & Humphrey in addition to Alexander Pope Humphrey were John Watson Barr and John Kemp Goodloe. After retiring from the bench, he was a member of the law firm of Brown, Humphrey & Davie. Following the death of his law partner Colonel John Mason Brown, of the 45th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry, he continued to practice with George M. Davie. He was the half-brother of Judge Edward William Cornelius Humphrey (1844 - 1917), whose son Edward Porter Humphrey (1873 – 1955) he invited as the third partner in the newly named firm of Humphrey, Davie, and Humphrey.

Judge Alexander Pope Humphrey delivered the annual address before the Virginia State Bar Association at Hot Springs, Virginia on August 3, 1899.

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