- Jonathan Miller
Jonathan Miller (b July 24, 1967) is a politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky and is the 36th and current State Treasurer of Kentucky, elected in 1999 and re-elected in 2003. - Irv Maze
Irv Maze is currently serving his third term as Jefferson County Attorney in Kentucky. He graduated from Indiana University in 1972 and University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law in 1975. He and his wife Peggy have 5 children. Prior to being elected Jefferson County Attorney, Maze was elected to multiple terms to the Jefferson County Fiscal Court before Louisville and Jefferson County were merged in 2002. In winning his first term as Jefferson County Attorney, … - Gene Snyder
Marion Eugene Snyder (January 26 1928 - February 16 2007) was an American politician elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives from two different districts in Kentucky. Snyder was born in Louisville and attended public schools there, having graduated from duPont Manual High School. He studied at the University of Louisville and graduated from the Jefferson School of Law. He began a career as a lawyer in Louisville in 1950. - Anthony Kennedy
Anthony Kennedy (December 21, 1810 - July 31, 1892) was a United States Senator from Maryland, serving from 1857 to 1863. He was the brother of United States Secretary of the Navy John P. Kennedy. Kennedy was born in Baltimore, Maryland to merchant John Kennedy and Nancy Pendleton. His parents sent him to Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia), in 1821, where he attended the Jefferson Academy. He studied law and also engaged in agricultural pursuits. - Nick Lampson
Nicholas Valentino Lampson, usually known as Nick Lampson (born February 14, 1945) is an American politician from the state of Texas. Lampson was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 9th District from 1997 to 2005. After redistricting, he was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Texas's 2nd District in 2004. After a one-term hiatus from Congress, he returned to Congress from the 22nd District, … - Charles Washington
Charles Washington was the youngest full brother of United States President George Washington. He was a son of Augustine Washington and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington. Charles was born at Hunting Creek in Stafford County (now Fairfax County) on May 2, 1738. He arrived in present Jefferson County, West Virginia between April and October 1780 and founded Charles Town. - Shirley Winters
Shirley Winters (born February 22, 1958) is an Upstate New York resident who is accused of murdering her five-month old son, Ronald Winters III, on November 21, 1980 in Otisco, NY. She is also under investigation for the 1979 deaths of her two older children, the 1979 deaths of three children of a friend, and the 2006 death of another young child. Initially, Ronald III's death was considered to be due to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), … - Daniel Pratt
Daniel Pratt (born 1799 in Temple, New Hampshire, died 1873) pioneered ventures that opened the door for industry in the U.S. state of Alabama. Prattville in Autauga County and Pratt City in Jefferson County (on the Pratt coal seam) are both named for him. Pratt started his manufacturing career when he moved to Autauga County in 1833 and founded the new town of Prattville for the workers in his first venture, a cotton gin factory. - Steve Stoll
Stephen Stoll is an American politician from the state of Missouri. He served 12 years in the Missouri General Assembly. Stoll was born in St. Louis and raised in Jefferson County. He attended Catholic Schools in Festus and attended Southeast Missouri State University. In 1970 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Missouri–Columbia. He served in the US Army from 1971 to 1973 and graduated from the University of Missouri–St. - Andrew Broaddus
Andrew Broaddus (May 15 1900 - September 7 1972) was Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky from December 1953 to December 1957. He was born and died in Louisville. After serving in the Navy during World War I he attended Centre College in nearby Danville, Kentucky, but did not graduate, leaving after two years in 1921 to work in his family's laundry business, becoming vice president of it by 1930. He was elected to the Board of Aldermen in 1933 as a Democrat, and mayor in 1953. - John M. Clayton
John Middleton Clayton (October 13, 1840 - January 29, 1889) was a Republican carpetbagger to Arkansas, originally being from Pennsylvania. He is best remembered today from his mysterious assassination in 1889. He was also the younger brother of Powell Clayton. Clayton and his twin brother, William, were born on a farm near Chester, Pennsylvania to John and Ann Glover Clayton, his father an orchard keeper and carpenter. - Loranne Ausley
Loranne Ausley b. October 16, 1963 is a member of the Florida House of Representatives since 2000 and a Democrat. Her district includes the northern half Leon County including most of Tallahassee and the northwest part of adjoining Jefferson County. She is an attorney with over 20 years of public service at the State and Federal level. - Walter Huddleston
Walter Darlington "Dee" Huddleston (born April 15 1926) is a retired American politician. He is a Democrat from the state of Kentucky. He represented Kentucky in the United States Senate from 1973 until 1985. Huddleston was born in Burkesville, the seat of Cumberland County in south central Kentucky. After he graduated from high school, he enlisted in the United States Army and served as a tank gunner in Europe during and after World War II from 1944 to 1946. - James D. Martin
James Douglas Martin (born September 1, 1918) is a Republican politician from the U.S. State of Alabama. His 1962 campaign for the United States Senate was the first serious showing by an Alabama Republican since Reconstruction. Martin was born in Tarrant. He received his education in the public schools of Jefferson County and the Birmingham School of Law. He began working in the petroleum industry in 1937. In July 1941, he enlisted in the United States Army, … - Bruce Hoblitzell
Bruce Hoblitzell (June 25 1887 - August 11 1970) was mayor of Louisville, Kentucky from 1957 to 1961. He was born and raised in Louisville and graduated from what is now duPont Manual Magnet High School and worked as a real estate agent and businessman. He was elected sheriff of Jefferson County in 1953. On November 5, 1957 he was elected mayor on the Democratic Party ticket, defeating Republican Robert B. Diehl by about ten thousand votes. He was nicknamed "Mr. Hobby". - Samuel Pasco
Samuel Pasco (June 28, 1834 - March 13, 1917) was a United States Senator from Florida. Born in London, England, he moved to the United States with his family as a child and settled in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Pasco attended Harvard University and then moved to Florida in 1859. He served as principal of the Waukeenah Academy, a school in Monticello, Florida, from 1860 to 1861. When the American Civil War began, though he had only lived in the South for two years, … - Jack McCall
Jack McCall (also known as "Crooked Nose" Jack) (born in the early 1850s in Jefferson County, Kentucky - died March 1, 1877 in Yankton, Dakota Territory, killed James "Wild Bill" Hickok, shooting him from behind, an act that among admirers of Hickok and students of Hickok's history has given rise to the phrase "the coward Jack McCall." - Herschel Vespasian Johnson
Herschel Vespasian Johnson (September 18, 1812 - August 16, 1880) was an American politician. He was the governor of Georgia from 1853 to 1857 and the vice-presidential nominee of the Douglas wing of the Democratic Party in the 1860 US presidential election. Johnson was born near Farmer's Bridge in Burke County, Georgia. In 1834, he graduated from the University of Georgia and passed his bar examination. - Lavell Boyd
LaVell Boyd (born September 12, 1976 in Fort Jackson, South Carolina) is a professional American football player. Boyd is a graduate of Doss High School was the all-time leading receiver in Jefferson County history. He later went on to the University of Louisville, where he help lead his team to two bowl games. LaVell majored in sociology. Boyd has played for the Cincinnati Bengals during the 2000 season. In 2001 the Miami Dolphins were he was injured. - Skip Ewing
Skip Ewing (real name "Donald Ewing"), born 1964 in California, country music songwriter and recording artist. Ewing first began to garner national attention during the mid-1980s both as a songwriter and recording artist for MCA and Capitol Records. Over 250 of his songs have been recorded, with more than a dozen of them becoming number one hits. Artists who have recorded Ewing's songs include Conway Twitty, George Jones, Andy Williams, Kenny Rogers, … - Julius Sterling Morton
J. Sterling Morton (April 22, 1832 - April 27, 1902) was President Grover Cleveland's Secretary of Agriculture. He was a prominent Bourbon Democrat. Morton was born in Adams, Jefferson County, New York. He was raised in Detroit and attended the University of Michigan. After receiving his diploma in 1854, he moved with his bride to Nebraska, which was not yet organized as a territory, and staked a claim in Nebraska City. - Alexander Fulton
Alexander Fulton (August 29, 1805-January 17, 1885) was the founder of the Iowa State Agricultural Society. Fulton was born in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania to James and Ann Fulton. He was their fourth child. In 1807, the Fulton family moved to Baltimore, Maryland, and in 1814 to Ross County, Ohio. In 1822, Fulton joined the Methodist Episcopal Church. On June 22, 1826, he married Eliza Jones. Shortly after, they moved to Delaware County, Ohio, … - Ben Erdreich
Benjamin (Ben) Erdreich is a former United States congressman from Alabama. He was born December 9, 1938 in Birmingham, Alabama to an upper-middle class family. Erdreich attended Yale University, earning his law degree. After graduating from college, he spent two years in the United States Army, beforing setting up a private law practice. He also spent one year 1963 as the editor of the Alabama Law Review. - Moss Kent
Moss Kent (April 3, 1766 - May 30, 1838) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Rensselaer County, he completed preparatory studies, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced. He was appointed first judge of Jefferson County about 1795 and moved to Cooperstown. He was a member of the New York State Senate from 1799 to 1803 and served in the New York State Assembly in 1807 and 1810. He was appointed judge of Jefferson County on February 26, 1810, … - Ezra Butler
Ezra Butler (born September 24, 1763) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Vermont. He was a National Republican. Butler was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts. In 1770 he moved with his parents to West Windsor, Vermont and engaged in agricultural pursuits in Claremont, New Hampshire. In 1785 as a veteran of the American Revolutionary War he studied law in and commenced practice in Waterbury, Vermont after he passed the bar. - Paul C. Barth
Paul C. Barth (1858 - August 21 1907) was Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky from 1905 to 1907. The son of a cabinetmaker who died when Barth was 11, he took financial responsibility for the family at an early age. He became sales manager for the Utica Lime Company and founded the Ohio River Sand Company in 1892. Barth entered politics in 1890 when a retiring member of the Louisville Board of Alderman chose him as his successor. He was elected president from 1897 to 1898, … - Egbert ten Eyck
Egbert Ten Eyck (April 18, 1779 - April 11, 1844) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Schodack, Rensselaer County, he graduated from Williams College (in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1799, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1807 and commenced practice in Watertown, New York. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1812 and 1813, and served as speaker. He was supervisor of Jefferson County in 1816, … - Lawrence Augustine Washington
Lawrence Augustine Washington (April 11, 1774 - February 15, 1824) was a nephew of United States President George Washington and son of Samuel Washington and his fourth wife, Anne Steptoe. Lawrence was born at Harewood in what is now Jefferson County, West Virginia in 1774. He married Mary Dorcas Wood on November 6, 1797 in Winchester, Virginia. Together, the couple had four children. It is through his son, Dr. Lawerence Augustine Washington, … - Robert Vernon Denney
Robert Vernon Denney (1916 - 1981) was a Nebraska Republican politician. He was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa on April 11, 1916 and graduated from Fairbury High School in 1933. He attended Peru State Teachers College and the University of Nebraska from 1933 to 1936, and graduated from Creighton University's School of Law in 1939. He practiced law in Fairbury, Nebraska and then became a special agent for Federal Bureau of Investigation serving in Washington, D.C. and Chicago. - Guy Carawan
Guy Carawan (b. Los Angeles, California, United States, July 27, 1927) is an American folk musician, and Music Director and Song Leader for the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee. He is famous for introducing the protest song "We Shall Overcome" to the American Civil Rights Movement, by teaching it to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Carawan had learned the song from Pete Seeger in the early 1950s. - William Dunn Moseley
William Dunn Moseley (February 1, 1795 - January 4, 1863) was an American politician. A Democrat and North Carolina native, Moseley became the first governor of the state of Florida, serving from 1845 and 1849. Mwas born at Moseley Hall in Lenoir County, North Carolina. The son of Matthew and Elizabeth Herring Dunn Moseley and a descendant of colonial official Edward Moseley, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1818, … - Henry L. Mitchell
Henry Laurens Mitchell (September 3, 1831-October 14, 1903) was an American politician who was the sixteenth Governor of Florida from 1893 to 1897. Mitchell was born near Birmingham in Jefferson County, Alabama. When Mitchell was 15 years old, he and his family moved to Tampa, where he later studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1849 at the age of 18. When the American Civil War began, … - James Henry Randolph
James Henry Randolph was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 1st congressional district of Tennessee. He was born near Dandridge, Tennessee in Jefferson County on October 18, 1825. He attended New Market Academy and graduated from Holston College in New Market, Tennessee. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1850, and commenced practice in Dandridge, Tennessee. - Emanuel Willis Wilson
Emanuel Willis Wilson was born on August 11, 1844 in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia in Jefferson County. He was elected Governor of West Virginia in 1884. When the Legislature disputed the Election of 1888, both Governor Wilson and State Senate President Robert S. Carr claimed the right to sit as Governor until the dispute was resolved. The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia ruled that Wilson should remain Governor. - Louie R. Guenthner Jr.
Louie R. Guenthner, Jr., (born 1945) was a Republican member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, having represented the 48th District in Jefferson County (Louisville) from 1973-1977. He was defeated in the 1977 primary election by Susan Stokes. Guenthner was also the Republican nominee for the United States Senate from Kentucky in 1978; he lost to the incumbent Democrat Walter Huddleston. Six years later, Mitch McConnell, also of Jefferson County, upset Huddleston, … - Rex Frederick
Rex Frederick (born December 16, 1936 in Hamilton, Alabama) is a former collegiate basketball player and coach. He was a star athlete in high school and led Corner High School in Jefferson County to the Alabama state championship. He later attended Auburn and holds the record as all-time leading rebounder with 14.3 rebounds per game average and his 904 career rebounds currently ranks fifth on the Tigers' all-time rebounding chart.. In 2006, … - George A. Bagley
George Augustus Bagley (July 22, 1826 - May 12, 1915) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Watertown, Jefferson County, he received an academic training, studied law, was admitted to the New York bar in 1847 and commenced practice in Watertown. He retired from the practice of his profession in 1853 to engage in the manufacture of iron, and was president of the village of Watertown in 1866. He was town supervisor from 1865 to 1868, … - Walter Gwynn
Walter Gwynn (February 22, 1802 - February 6, 1882) was a civil engineer and soldier who became a Confederate general in the American Civil War. Gwynn was born in Jefferson County, Virginia (now West Virginia), the son of Humphrey Gwynn, a descendant of Colonel Hugo Gwynn, who settled in Virginia before 1640. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, … - Edmund H. Hinshaw
Edmund Howard Hinshaw (b. 1860- d. 1932) was a Nebraska republican politician. Born in Greensboro, Indiana on December 8, 1860, he graduated from Butler College in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1885. He moved to Fairbury, Nebraska in 1887 and was superintendent of the public schools until 1888 while he studied law. He passed the bar and started practicing in Fairbury. He became a city clerk in 1889 and attorney for Fairbury in 1890. - Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh
Jacob Montgomery Thornburgh (1837 - 1890) was an American politician, representative for the 2nd congressional district of Tennessee. He was born on July 2, 1837 in New Market, Tennessee in Jefferson County. He completed preparatory studies, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1861, after which he commenced practice in Jefferson County. On July 11, 1863, during the Civil War, …
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