Category: Kentucky

Governor | Democrat | FORD, WENDELL HAMPTON, a Senator from Kentucky; born near Owensboro, Daviess County, Ky., September 8, 1924; attended the public schools of Daviess County; attended the University of Kentucky 1942-1943; graduated, Maryland School of Insurance 1947; engaged in insurance business in Kentucky; served in the United States Army 1944-1946; Kentucky National Guard… Continue reading Wendell Ford

Lt. Governor | Democrat | STEVENSON, JOHN WHITE, (son of Andrew Stevenson), a Representative and a Senator from Kentucky; born in Richmond, Va., May 4, 1812; attended Hampden-Sidney Academy, Virginia, and graduated from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1832; studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Vicksburg, Miss; moved to… Continue reading John W. Stevenson

Senator | Republican | MCCONNELL, ADDISON MITCHELL (MITCH), a Senator from Kentucky; born in Tuscumbia, Colbert County, Ala., February 20, 1942; attended Louisville, Ky. public schools; graduated, University of Louisville 1964; graduated, University of Kentucky Law School, Lexington 1967; admitted to the Kentucky bar in 1967; legislative assistant to Senator Marlow Cook 1968-1970; Deputy Assistant… Continue reading Mitch McConnell

Representative | Democrat | NATCHER, WILLIAM HUSTON, a Representative from Kentucky; born in Bowling Green, Warren County, Ky., September 11, 1909; attended the public schools and received high school education at Ogden Preparatory Department of Ogden College, Bowling Green, Ky.; B.A., Western Kentucky State College, Bowling Green, Ky., 1930 and from Ohio State University, Columbus,… Continue reading William Natcher

Representative | Whig | CLAY, HENRY, (father of James Brown Clay), a Senator and a Representative from Kentucky; born in the district known as “the Slashes,” Hanover County, Va., April 12, 1777; attended the Old Field School and St. Paul’s School in Hanover County, Va.; studied law in Richmond, Va.; admitted to the bar in… Continue reading Henry Clay

Representative | Whig | WHITE, JOHN, (cousin of Addison White, uncle of John Daugherty White), a Representative from Kentucky; born near Cumberland Gap (now Middlesboro), Ky., February 14, 1802; received a limited schooling; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Richmond, Madison County, Ky.; member of the State house of representatives… Continue reading John White

Representative | Democrat | CARLISLE, JOHN GRIFFIN, a Representative and a Senator from Kentucky; born in Campbell (now Kenton) County, Ky., September 5, 1834; attended the common schools; taught school in Covington and elsewhere for five years; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1858 and commenced practice in Covington, Ky.; member, State house of… Continue reading John Carlisle

Representative | Democrat-Republican | JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR, (brother of James Johnson, brother of John Telemachus Johnson, uncle of Robert Ward Johnson), a Representative and a Senator from Kentucky and a Vice President of the United States; born at “Beargrass,” Jefferson County, Ky., near the present site of Louisville, October 17, 1780; attended the common schools… Continue reading Richard Mentor Johnson

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Representative | Democrat | BRECKINRIDGE, JOHN CABELL, (grandson of John Breckinridge, father of Clifton Rodes Breckinridge, and cousin of Henry Donnel Foster), a Representative and a Senator from Kentucky and a Vice President of the United States; born at ‘Cabell’s Dale,’ near Lexington, Ky., January 16, 1821; attended Pisgah Academy, Woodford County, Ky.; graduated from… Continue reading John C. Breckinridge