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Kentucky
The Commonwealth of Kentucky ( /kɨnˈtʌki/ (help·info)) is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth (the other three being Virginia,...
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Isaac Shelby
Isaac Shelby (December 11, 1750 – July 18, 1826) was the first and fifth Governor of the U.S. state of Kentucky and served in the state legislatures of Virginia and North Carolina. He was also a soldier in Lord Dunmore's War, the Revolutionary War,...
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- Jun 7, 1796
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- Jun 4, 1792
James Garrard
James Garrard (January 14, 1749 – January 9, 1822) was an American soldier who served as the second Governor of Kentucky from 1796 to 1804. He was also a Baptist minister, but his secretary of state, Unitarian minister Henry Toulmin, influenced him...
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- Sep 5, 1804
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- Jun 7, 1796
Christopher Greenup
Christopher Greenup (c. 1750 – April 27, 1818) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative and the third Governor of Kentucky. Little is known about his early life; the first reliable records about him are documents recording his...
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- Sep 1, 1808
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- Sep 5, 1804
Charles Scott
Charles Scott (April 1739 – October 22, 1813) was an American soldier and politician who served as Governor of Kentucky from 1808 to 1812. Orphaned at an early age, Scott served under Edward Braddock and George Washington in the French and Indian...
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- Aug 24, 1812
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- Sep 1, 1808
Isaac Shelby
Isaac Shelby (December 11, 1750 – July 18, 1826) was the first and fifth Governor of the U.S. state of Kentucky and served in the state legislatures of Virginia and North Carolina. He was also a soldier in Lord Dunmore's War, the Revolutionary War,...
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- Sep 5, 1816
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- Aug 24, 1812
George Madison
George Madison (June 1763 – October 14, 1816) was the sixth Governor of Kentucky. He was the first governor of Kentucky to die in office, serving only a few weeks in 1816. Little is known of Madison's early life. He was a member of the influential...
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- Oct 14, 1816
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- Sep 5, 1816
Gabriel Slaughter
Gabriel Slaughter (December 12, 1767 – September 19, 1830) was the seventh Governor of Kentucky and was the first person to ascend to that office upon the death of the sitting governor. His family moved to Kentucky from Virginia when he was very...
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- Aug 29, 1820
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- Oct 14, 1816
John Adair
John Adair (January 9, 1757 – May 19, 1840) was an American pioneer, soldier and statesman. He was the seventh governor of Kentucky and represented the state in both the U.S. House and Senate. Adair enlisted in the state militia and served in the...
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- Aug 24, 1824
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- Aug 29, 1820
Joseph Desha
Joseph Desha (December 9, 1768 – October 11, 1842) was a U.S. Representative and the ninth governor of Kentucky. Desha was the first Kentucky governor not to have served in the Revolutionary War. He did, however, serve under William Henry Harrison...
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- Aug 26, 1828
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- Aug 24, 1824
Thomas Metcalfe
Thomas Metcalfe (March 20, 1780 – August 18, 1855) was a U.S. Representative, Senator, and Governor of Kentucky. He was the first gubernatorial candidate in the state's history to be chosen by a nominating convention rather than a caucus. He was...
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- Sep 4, 1832
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- Aug 26, 1828
John Breathitt
John Breathitt (September 9, 1786 – February 21, 1834) was the eleventh Governor of Kentucky. He was the first Democrat to hold this office and was the second Kentucky governor to die in office. Shortly after his death, Breathitt County, Kentucky...
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- Feb 21, 1834
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- Sep 4, 1832
James Turner Morehead
James Turner Morehead (1799 – 1875) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born in Rockingham County, North Carolina, January 11, 1799; attended the common schools; was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
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- Aug 30, 1836
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- Feb 21, 1834
James Clark
James Clark (January 16, 1779 – August 27, 1839) was a 19th century American politician who served in all three branches of Kentucky's government and in the U.S. House of Representatives. His political career began in the Kentucky House of...
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- Aug 27, 1839
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- Aug 30, 1836
Charles A. Wickliffe
Charles Anderson Wickliffe (June 8, 1788 – October 31, 1869) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. He also served as Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives, Governor of Kentucky, and was appointed Postmaster General by President John...
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- Sep 2, 1840
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- Aug 27, 1839
Robert P. Letcher
Robert Perkins Letcher (February 10, 1788 – January 24, 1861) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative, diplomat and governor of Kentucky. He also served in the Kentucky General Assembly where he was Speaker of the House in...
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- Sep 4, 1844
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- Sep 2, 1840
William Owsley
William Owsley (March 24, 1782 – December 9, 1862) was an associate justice on the Kentucky Court of Appeals and the sixteenth governor of Kentucky. He also served in both houses of the Kentucky General Assembly and was Kentucky Secretary of State...
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- Sep 6, 1848
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- Sep 4, 1844
John J. Crittenden
John Jordan Crittenden (September 10, 1786 – July 26, 1863) was an American statesman from Kentucky. He twice served as United States Attorney General. He represented Kentucky in both houses of Congress and served as the state's seventeenth governor...
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- Jul 13, 1850
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- Sep 6, 1848
John L. Helm
John LaRue Helm (July 4, 1802 – Sept. 8, 1867) was the eighteenth and twenty-fourth governor of Kentucky, although his service in that office totaled less than fourteen months. He also represented Hardin County in both houses of the Kentucky General...
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- Sep 2, 1851
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- Jul 31, 1850
Lazarus W. Powell
Lazarus Whitehead Powell (October 6, 1812 - July 3, 1867) was the nineteenth Governor of Kentucky, serving from 1851 to 1855. He was later elected to represent Kentucky in the U.S. Senate from 1859 to 1865.
The reforms enacted during Powell's term...
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- Sep 4, 1855
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- Sep 2, 1851
Charles S. Morehead
Charles Slaughter Morehead (July 7, 1802 – December 21, 1868) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, and served as the twentieth governor of Kentucky. Though a member of the Whig Party for most of his political service, he joined the Know Nothing...
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- Aug 30, 1859
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- Sep 4, 1855
Beriah Magoffin
Beriah Magoffin (April 18, 1815 – February 28, 1885) was the twenty-first governor of Kentucky, serving during the early part of the Civil War. Personally, Magoffin adhered to a states' rights position, including the right of a state to secede from...
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- Aug 18, 1862
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- Aug 30, 1859
James F. Robinson
James Fisher Robinson (October 4, 1800 - October 31, 1882) was the twenty-second Governor of Kentucky, serving the remainder of the unfinished term of Governor Beriah Magoffin. Magoffin, a Confederate sympathizer, became increasingly ineffective...
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- Sep 1, 1863
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- Aug 18, 1862
Thomas E. Bramlette
Thomas Elliott Bramlette (January 3, 1817 – January 12, 1875) was the twenty-third governor of Kentucky. He was elected in 1863 and guided the state through the latter part of the Civil War and the beginning of Reconstruction. At the outbreak of the...
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- Sep 3, 1867
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- Sep 1, 1863
John L. Helm
John LaRue Helm (July 4, 1802 – Sept. 8, 1867) was the eighteenth and twenty-fourth governor of Kentucky, although his service in that office totaled less than fourteen months. He also represented Hardin County in both houses of the Kentucky General...
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- Sep 8, 1867
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- Sep 3, 1867
John W. Stevenson
John White Stevenson (May 4 1812 – August 10 1886) was a U.S. Representative, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, Governor of Kentucky and U.S. Senator. His father, Andrew Stevenson, had served as Speaker of the House and minister to Great Britain. His...
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- Feb 3, 1871
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- Sep 8, 1867
Preston Leslie
Preston Hopkins Leslie (March 8, 1819 – February 7, 1907) was governor of Kentucky from 1871 to 1875 and territorial governor of Montana from 1887 to 1889. He ascended to the office of governor by three different means. First, he succeeded Kentucky...
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- Aug 31, 1875
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- Feb 3, 1871
James B. McCreary
James Bennett McCreary (July 8, 1838 – October 8, 1918) was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Kentucky. He also served as the state's twenty-seventh and thirty-seventh governor. He was the only Kentucky governor to serve from both the Old...
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- Sep 2, 1879
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- Aug 31, 1875
Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn
Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn (October 1, 1838 – September 12, 1918) was a Democratic Representative and Senator from Kentucky. He was the younger brother of Kentucky governor Luke P. Blackburn. Blackburn, a skilled and spirited orator, was also a...
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- Sep 5, 1883
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- Sep 2, 1879
J. Proctor Knott
James Proctor Knott (August 29, 1830 – June 18, 1911) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky and served as governor of Kentucky from 1883 to 1887. Born in Kentucky, he moved to Missouri in 1850 and began his political career there. He served as...
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- Aug 30, 1887
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- Sep 5, 1883
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sr.
Simon Bolivar Buckner (April 1, 1823 – January 8, 1914) fought in the United States Army in the Mexican–American War and in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He later served as the thirtieth governor of Kentucky.
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- Sep 2, 1891
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- Aug 30, 1887
John Y. Brown
John Young Brown (June 28, 1835 – January 11, 1904) was a U.S. Representative and Governor of Kentucky. A gifted orator, his criticism of the Know-Nothing Party drew death threats against him early in his career. Later, the U.S. House of...
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- Dec 10, 1895
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- Sep 2, 1891
William O'Connell Bradley
William O'Connell Bradley (March 18, 1847 – May 23, 1914) was the thirty-second Governor of Kentucky, and later served as a U.S. senator from Kentucky. Nicknamed "Billy O. B.", Bradley was well-regarded by political allies, opponents, and commoners....
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- Dec 12, 1899
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- Dec 10, 1895
William S. Taylor
William Sylvester Taylor (October 10, 1853 – August 2, 1928) was the thirty-third governor of Kentucky. He was initially declared the winner of the disputed gubernatorial election of 1899, but the Kentucky General Assembly reversed the election...
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- Jan 30, 1900
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- Dec 12, 1899
William Goebel
William J. Goebel (January 4, 1856 – February 3, 1900) was an American politician who served as Governor of Kentucky for a few days in 1900 after having been mortally wounded by an assassin the day before he was sworn in. Goebel remains the only...
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- Feb 3, 1900
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- Jan 30, 1900
J. C. W. Beckham
John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham (August 5, 1869 – January 9, 1940) was the 35th governor of Kentucky and a United States Senator from Kentucky. He was the state's first popularly elected senator following passage of the Seventeenth Amendment....
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- Dec 12, 1907
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- Feb 3, 1900
Augustus E. Willson
Augustus Everett Willson (October 13, 1846 – August 24, 1931) was the thirty-sixth governor of Kentucky. Orphaned at the age of twelve, Willson went to live with relatives in New England. This move exposed him to such literary masters as Ralph Waldo...
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- Dec 12, 1911
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- Dec 10, 1907
James B. McCreary
James Bennett McCreary (July 8, 1838 – October 8, 1918) was a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Kentucky. He also served as the state's twenty-seventh and thirty-seventh governor. He was the only Kentucky governor to serve from both the Old...
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- Dec 7, 1915
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- Dec 12, 1911
Augustus O. Stanley
Augustus Owsley Stanley (May 21, 1867 – August 12, 1958) was a politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. A Democrat, he served as the thirty-eighth governor of Kentucky and also represented the state in both the U.S. House of Representatives and...
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- May 19, 1919
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- Dec 7, 1915
James D. Black
James Dixon Black (September 24, 1849 – August 5, 1938) was thirty-ninth governor of Kentucky, serving for seven months in 1919. He ascended to the office when Governor Augustus O. Stanley was elected to the U.S. Senate.
Black graduated from...
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- Dec 9, 1919
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- May 19, 1919
Edwin P. Morrow
Edwin Porch Morrow (November 28, 1877 – June 15, 1935) served as the 40th governor of Kentucky from 1919 to 1923. He was the only Republican elected to this office between 1907 and 1927. He championed the typical Republican causes of his day, namely...
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- Dec 11, 1923
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- Dec 9, 1919
William J. Fields
William Jason Fields (December 29, 1874 – October 21, 1954) was a U.S. Representative and the forty-first Governor of Kentucky. An early defeat for a seat in the state legislature convinced Fields that a slow climb through the political ranks was...
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- Dec 13, 1927
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- Dec 11, 1923
Flem D. Sampson
Flem Davis Sampson (January 25, 1875 - May 25, 1967) was the forty-second governor of Kentucky, serving from 1927 to 1931. He graduated from Valparaiso University in 1894, and opened a law practice in Barbourville, Kentucky. He formed a political...
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- Dec 8, 1931
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- Dec 13, 1927
Ruby Laffoon
Ruby Laffoon (January 15, 1869 – March 1, 1941) was the forty-third governor of Kentucky, serving from 1931 to 1935. He was introduced to politics by his uncle, U. S. Representative Polk Laffoon. After developing a mixed record of political...
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- Dec 10, 1935
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- Dec 8, 1931
Happy Chandler
Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler, Sr. (July 14, 1898 – June 15, 1991) was twice governor of Kentucky, a U.S. Senator, the second Commissioner of Major League Baseball, and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. His jovial attitude earned him the...
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- Oct 9, 1939
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- Dec 10, 1935
Keen Johnson
Keen Johnson (January 12, 1896 – February 7, 1970) was the forty-fifth governor of Kentucky, serving from 1939 to 1943. He remains the only journalist to have served in that capacity. After serving in World War I, Johnson purchased and edited the...
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- Dec 7, 1943
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- Oct 9, 1939
Simeon S. Willis
Simeon Slavens Willis (December 1, 1879 – April 1, 1965) was the forty-sixth governor of Kentucky, United States, serving from 1943 to 1947. He was the only Republican elected governor of Kentucky between 1927 and 1967.
Willis's family came to...
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- Dec 9, 1947
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- Dec 7, 1943
Earle C. Clements
Earle Chester Clements (October 22, 1896 – March 12, 1985) was a politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He represented the state in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and was its forty-seventh governor, serving from 1947...
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- Nov 27, 1950
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- Dec 9, 1947
Lawrence Wetherby
Lawerence Winchester Wetherby (January 2, 1908 – March 27, 1994) was a politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. After graduating from the University of Louisville, he rose through the judicial system of Jefferson County and was elected lieutenant...
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- Dec 13, 1955
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- Nov 27, 1950
Happy Chandler
Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler, Sr. (July 14, 1898 – June 15, 1991) was twice governor of Kentucky, a U.S. Senator, the second Commissioner of Major League Baseball, and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. His jovial attitude earned him the...
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- Dec 8, 1959
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- Dec 13, 1955
Bert T. Combs
Bertram Thomas Combs (August 13, 1911 – December 3, 1991) was the Democratic Governor of Kentucky from 1959 through 1963.
Bert Combs was born in the Town Branch section of Manchester, Kentucky on August 13, 1911. He was one of seven children born to...
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- Dec 10, 1963
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- Dec 8, 1959
Edward T. Breathitt
Edward Thompson "Ned" Breathitt Jr. (born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky on November 26, 1924, died in Lexington, Kentucky on October 11, 2003) was a United States politician. He was elected governor of Kentucky in 1963.
Breathitt served in the U.S. Army...
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- Dec 12, 1967
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- Dec 10, 1963
Louie B. Nunn
Louie Broady Nunn (March 8, 1924 – January 29, 2004), a native of tiny Park in Barren County in southern Kentucky, was his state's Governor from 1967 to 1971. Nunn was the first and only Republican governor of Kentucky after 1943 until Ernie...
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- Dec 7, 1971
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- Dec 12, 1967
Wendell H. Ford
Wendell Hampton Ford (born September 8, 1924) is an American politician from Kentucky who belongs to the Democratic Party. He was considered to be the leader of the state's Democratic Party from his election to governor in 1971 until his retirement...
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- Dec 28, 1974
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- Dec 7, 1971
Julian Carroll
Julian Morton Carroll (born April 16, 1931) was the Democratic Governor of the U.S. state of Kentucky from 1974 to 1979.
Born in Paducah, Kentucky in McCracken County, Kentucky, Carroll continued to reside in that county, where he worked as a lawyer...
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- Dec 11, 1979
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- Dec 28, 1974
John Y. Brown, Jr.
John Young Brown Jr. (born December 28, 1933) is a U.S. Democratic Party politician, entrepreneur and businessman.
John Y. Brown Jr. was born in Lexington, Kentucky. His father, John Y. Brown, Sr. was a member of the U.S. Congress from Kentucky and...
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- Dec 13, 1983
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- Dec 11, 1979
Martha Layne Collins
Martha Layne Collins (born December 7, 1936 in Bagdad, Kentucky) was Governor of the U.S. State of Kentucky from 1983 through 1987; she is a member of the Democratic Party. She was Kentucky's first and only female governor to date.
After graduating...
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- Dec 8, 1987
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- Dec 13, 1983
Wallace G. Wilkinson
Wallace Glenn Wilkinson (December 12, 1941–July 5, 2002) was a Kentucky businessman and Governor of Kentucky, 1987-1991.
Born in Casey County, Kentucky, Wilkinson graduated from Liberty High School in 1959. He transferred from Campbellsville College...
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- Dec 10, 1991
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- Dec 8, 1987
Brereton Jones
Brereton Chandler Jones (born June 27, 1939) is an American political figure. He served as the Democratic Governor of Kentucky from 1991 until 1995.
Born in 1939 in Gallipolis, Ohio, Jones graduated from the University of Virginia in 1961. From a...
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- Dec 12, 1995
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- Dec 10, 1991
Paul E. Patton
Paul E. Patton (born May 26, 1937) served as Democratic governor of Kentucky from 1995 to 2003. He is a Presbyterian, and lives in Pikeville, Kentucky. He is currently the President of Pikeville College.
Patton was born in Fallsburg, which is in...
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- Dec 9, 2003
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- Dec 12, 1995
Ernie Fletcher
Ernest Lee Fletcher (born November 12, 1952) is a physician and Republican politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He served as governor of Kentucky from 2003 to 2007, losing his re-election bid to Democrat Steve Beshear. Prior to being elected...
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- Dec 11, 2007
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- Dec 9, 2003
