- Ernie Fletcher
Governor Ernie Fletcher has led a remarkable life - as an Air Force fighter pilot, engineer, family doctor, lay minister, state legislator, and United States Congressman. He was born in Mt. Sterling and is a longtime resident of Lexington. He received his B.S. degree from the University of Kentucky College of Engineering in 1974 and later graduated from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine. - Steve Beshear
Steven L. Beshear (born 1944) is the Democratic nominee in the 2007 Kentucky gubernatorial election. He is a former member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, a former Attorney General of Kentucky and a former Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky. He unsuccessfully ran for Governor of Kentucky in 1987. - Isaac Shelby
Isaac Shelby was an American soldier and the first and fifth Governor of Kentucky, serving from 1792 to 1796 and from 1812 to 1816. - Ben Chandler
Albert Benjamin "Ben" Chandler III (born September 12 1959) is an American politician from Kentucky. He is the member of the House of Representatives for and was first elected in 2004. Chandler was born in Versailles, Kentucky. He received a BA and a J.D. from the University of Kentucky at Lexington, Ky., and became a private practice lawyer. He was State Auditor from 1991 to 1995 before he became the Attorney General of Kentucky from 1995 until 2003, … - John Y. Brown
John Young Brown (June 28, 1835-January 11, 1904) was a Representative from Kentucky. He was born in Claysville, Kentucky. He was the nephew of Bryan Rust Young and William Singleton Young. He graduated from Centre College in 1855, and studied law. Brown was admitted to the bar in 1857 and practiced in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. He was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-sixth Congress, … - Happy Chandler
Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler, Sr. (July 14 1898 - June 15 1991) was twice governor of Kentucky, a U.S. Senator, the 2nd Commissioner of Major League Baseball, and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. His jovial attitude earned him the nickname "Happy," which stuck for the remainder of his life. Chandler's first term as governor is still regarded as one of the most productive of any Kentucky governor. - 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. After graduating from the University of Kentucky, Collins began her professional career as a school teacher in the public schools of Louisville and Woodford County. Collins worked in various Democratic campaigns. Her first elected office was that of Clerk of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, … - Anne Northup
Anne Meagher Northup (born January 22 1948) is an American Republican politician from the state of Kentucky. From 1997 to 2007, she represented the Louisville-centered 3rd congressional district of Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives, where she served on the powerful House Appropriations Committee. She narrowly lost reelection to Democratic politician John Yarmuth in the 2006 election. - John Marshall
John Marshall (b. 1856 in Jefferson County, Kentucky - d. 1922) served as Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky under Governor William S. Taylor from 1899-1900. Both Governor Bradley and Lieutenant Governor Marshall were removed from office by a Supreme Court decision that ruled that William Goebel had rightly been elected governor in the contested 1899 election. - John Y. Brown Jr.
John Young Brown Jr. (born December 28, 1933) is a U.S. Democratic Party politician 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 a member of the Kentucky state legislature for nearly three decades, including a term as Speaker of the House. He graduated from Lafayette High School and University of Kentucky, where he was a member of Phi Delta Theta, … - Bruce Lunsford
W. Bruce Lunsford (born November 11, 1947 in Kenton County, Kentucky) is an American businessman from Louisville, Kentucky, and a Democratic Party politician. - 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 political family, Jones began his political career in West Virginia as a Republican, serving in the state's House of Delegates from 1965-1969 and eventually becoming the House Minority Leader. He later registered as a Democrat. - Charles Scott
Charles Scott was born in Cumberland County, Virginia. He served as a non-commissioned officer in Braddock's Expedition in 1755 in the French and Indian War. Scott raised a company of militia in Virginia at the outset of the Revolutionary War. He became a colonel in 1776. He served under George Washington at the Battle of Trenton. He became a general in 1777. Scott was captured by the British at Fall of Charleston in 1779. He was held prisoner for two years. - Richard Hawes
Richard Hawes was a United States Representative from Kentucky and Confederate Governor of Kentucky. He was part of an influential political family, with a brother, uncle, and cousin who also served as U.S. Representatives. He began his political career as an ardent Whig and was a close friend of the party's founder, Henry Clay. When the party declined and dissolved in the 1850s, Hawes became a Democrat, and his relationship with Clay cooled. - Paul E. Patton
Paul E. Patton (born May 26, 1937) served as Democratic governor of Kentucky from 1995 to 2003. He was succeeded by Ernie Fletcher. He is a Presbyterian, and lives in Pikeville, Kentucky. Patton was born in Fallsburg, Kentucky. In 1959, he received his B.S. in mechanical engineering at the University of Kentucky, and was a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity there. - James Garrard
James Garrard (January 14, 1749 - January 9, 1822) was an American soldier and second Governor of Kentucky from 1796 to 1804. Garrard was born in Stafford County, Virginia. While serving as colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, he was called from the army to a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1779; he was reelected in 1785. Garrard was a zealous advocate of the bill for the establishment of religious liberty. - John Adair
John Adair (January 9, 1757 - May 19, 1840) was an American pioneer, soldier and statesman of Mercer County, Kentucky. He was governor of Kentucky and represented the state in both the U.S. House and Senate. Adair County, Kentucky, Adair County, Missouri, Adair County, Iowa, and the town of Adair, Iowa were named after him. - Hal Rogers
Harold Dallas "Hal" Rogers (born December 31 1937), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1981, representing the. His office is currently located in Somerset. Rogers was born in Monticello, Kentucky, was educated at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green and the University of Kentucky at Lexington, having received a law degree. Rogers served in the Kentucky and North Carolina Army National Guard. - Jody Richards
Jody Richards is a politician from Bowling Green, Kentucky. He currently serves as Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives. Richards, who began his career as a teacher at Western Kentucky University, first ran for office in 1975, when he won the 20th District seat in the Kentucky House of Representatives, a position he holds to this day. While still in his first term, Speaker Richards was called upon to chair the House’s Education Committee. - Gatewood Galbraith
Gatewood Galbraith (born January 23, 1947) is an American lawyer and author from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He ran in the Democratic primary for Governor of Kentucky as an outspoken proponent of education as well as privacy rights and other civil liberties. - 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. He served as a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, serving five terms beginning in 1961 representing Paducah. Carroll served as Speaker of the House from 1968 through 1970. - John J. Crittenden
John Jordan Crittenden (September 10, 1786 - July 26, 1863) was an American statesman from Kentucky. He was born near Versailles, Kentucky, the son of American Revolution veteran John Crittenden. He attended Washington College (now Washington and Lee University) in Lexington, Virginia, and graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1806. Thereafter he studied law and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Woodford County, Kentucky, in 1807. - 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 Fletcher's election in 2003. - Steve Henry
Steve Henry (born 1953) was a Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky from 1995 through 2003. He has lost two statewide elections, finishing third in Democratic primaries for the United States Senate in 1998 and for Governor of Kentucky in 2007. - Bert T. Combs
Bertram Thomas Combs (August 13, 1911 - December 4, 1991), born in Manchester, Clay County, Kentucky, was the Democratic Governor of Kentucky from 1959 through 1963. Combs attended Cumberland College and the University of Kentucky and graduated from UK's law school in 1937. Shortly thereafter, he was admitted to the bar and began his practice in Manchester, later moving to Prestonsburg. - William Goebel
William J. Goebel was a controversial American politician who served as Governor of Kentucky for a few days in 1900 before being assassinated. Goebel remains the only state governor in the United States to be assassinated while in office. A skilled politician, Goebel was well able to broker deals with fellow lawmakers, and equally able and willing to break them if a better deal came along. - Beriah Magoffin
Beriah Magoffin (April 18, 1815 - February 28, 1885) was the Governor of Kentucky from 1859 to 1862. - Ruby Laffoon
Ruby Laffoon (January 15, 1869 - March 1, 1941) was a Democratic Party Governor of Kentucky from 1931 - 1935. In the election he beat William B. Harrison and won with 54.3% of the vote. Laffoon was born, died and buried in Madisonville, Kentucky. During his term as Governor, he created a state sales tax, set a record for the number of pardons and commissioned a record number of Kentucky Colonels; notably Colonel Sanders (KFC). He was married to Mary Nisbet on January 31, … - Billy Harper
Billy Harper was a Republican candidate for Governor of Kentucky. - George W. Johnson
George Washington Johnson (May 27, 1811 - April 8, 1862) was the first Confederate governor of Kentucky. A lawyer-turned-farmer from Scott County, Kentucky, Johnson favored secession as a means of preventing the Civil War, believing the Union and Confederacy would be forces of equal strength, each too wary to attack the other. As political sentiment in the Commonwealth took a decidedly Union turn following the elections of 1861, … - George Madison
George Madison (June 1763 - October 14, 1816) was the sixth Governor of Kentucky. - Christopher Greenup
Christopher Greenup (1750 - April 27, 1818) was an American lawyer and politician from Frankfort, Kentucky. Greenup was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia, and served in the Revolutionary War, attaining the rank of colonel in the Virginia Militia and of captain in the Continental Army. He studied and practiced law in Frankfort, Kentucky, and also spent time as a surveyor and as a land speculator. - Phyllis George
Phyllis George (b. 25 June 1949 in Denton, Texas) is an American businesswoman. She is a former Miss Texas and Miss America of 1971. George attended the University of North Texas until crowned Miss Texas in 1971. At that time, Texas Christian University awarded scholarships to Miss Texas honorees. As a result, Phyllis left UNT and enrolled at TCU for several weeks until winning the Miss America crown later that fall. She is a member of Zeta Tau Alpha women's fraternity. - Wallace G. Wilkinson
Wallace Glenn Wilkinson (December 12, 1941-July 5, 2002) was a Kentucky businessman who made a fortune with college bookstores, and Governor of Kentucky, 1987-1991. Born in Casey County, Kentucky, Wilkinson graduated from Liberty High School in 1959. He transferred from Campbellsville College to the University of Kentucky and began dating fellow student Martha Carol Stafford, whom he had known in high school. - Keen Johnson
Keen Johnson (January 12, 1896 - February 7, 1970) served as Governor of Kentucky 1939-1943. Johnson was a Democrat. Keen Johnson was born in Brandon's Chapel, Lyon County, Kentucky and studied at Central Methodist College in Fayette, Missouri. He served in World War I and then graduated from the University of Kentucky. He worked as a newspaper editor and then was elected Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky in 1935, defeating Republican J. J. Kavanaugh by over 100,000 votes. - Jack Conway
Jack Conway is an attorney and politician in Louisville, Kentucky. He and his wife Elizabeth live and work in Louisville. Jack Conway served important roles as a key advisor in the administration of Governor of Kentucky Paul E. Patton. In 2002, Conway was the Democratic nominee for Kentucky's Third Congressional District seat in the United States House of Representatives. Conway lost a close race to the incumbent, Anne Northup. - Joseph Desha
Joseph Desha was the ninth governor of Kentucky. - Archibald Dixon
Archibald Dixon (April 2, 1802 - April 23, 1876) was a Kentucky politician who held numerous Kentucky and U.S. national political offices. Dixon was born near Redhouse, North Carolina, moving with his parents to Henderson, Kentucky in 1805. Educated by his mother and attending common schools, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1824, practicing in Henderson with Lazarus W. Powell (who later became Governor of Kentucky). - Wendell H. Ford
Wendell Hampton Ford (born September 8, 1924) is an American politician from Kentucky who belongs to the Democratic Party. Ford was born in Owensboro, Kentucky. Ford served in the United States Army during World War II. Ford served as the top assistant to Governor Bert T. Combs from 1959 to 1963. He then served in the state senate from 1965 until his election as Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky in 1967. - Augustus E. Willson
Augustus Everett Willson was the thirty-sixth Governor of Kentucky, United States.
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