Governors of Kentucky

A list of governors from the state of Kentucky.[1]

Name |  Party  |  Years

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Isaac Shelby  |  Jeffersonian Republican  |  1792-1796
James Garrard  |  Jeffersonian Republican  |  1796-1804
Christopher Greenup  |  Jeffersonian Republican  |  1804-1808
Charles Scott  |  Jeffersonian Republican  |  1808-1812
George Madison  |  Jeffersonian Republican  |  1816
Gabriel Slaughter  |  Jeffersonian Republican  |  1816-1820
John Adair  |  Democratic Republican  |  1820-1824
Joseph Desha  |  Jeffersonian Republican  |  1824-1828
Thomas Metcalfe  |  Whig  |  1828-1832
John Breathitt  |  Jacksonian Democrat  |  1832-1834
James Turner Morehead  |  Whig  |  1834-1836
James Clark  |  Whig  |  1836-1839
Charles Anderson Wickliffe  |  Whig  |  1839-1840
Robert Perkins Letcher  |  Whig  |  1840-1844
William Owsley  |  Whig  |  1844-1848
John Jordan Crittenden  |  Whig  |  1848-1850
John Larue Helm  |  Whig  |  1850-1851, 1867
Lazarus Whitehead Powell  |  Democrat  |  1851-1855
Charles Slaughter Morehead  |  American  |  1855-1859
Beriah Magoffin  |  Democrat  |  1859-1862
James Fisher Robinson  |  Democrat  |  1862-1863
Thomas Elliott Bramlette  |  Democrat  |  1863-1867
John White Stevenson  |  Democrat  |  1867-1871
Preston Hopkins Leslie  |  Democrat  |  1871-1875
James Bennett McCreary  |  Democrat  |  1875-1879, 1911-1915
Luke Pryor Blackburn  |  Democrat  |  1879-1883
James Proctor Knott  |  Democrat  |  1883-1887
Simon Bolivar Buckner  |  Democrat  |  1887-1891
John Young Brown  |  Democrat  |  1891-1895
William O. Bradley  |  Republican  |  1895-1899
William Sylvester Taylor  |  Republican  |  1899-1900
William Goebel  |  Democrat  |  1900
John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham  |  Democrat  |  1900-1907
Augustus Everett Willson |  Republican  |  1907-1911
Augustus Owsley Stanley  |  Democrat  |  1915-1919
James Dixon Black  |  Democrat  |  1919
Edwin Porch Morrow |  Republican  |  1919-1923
William Jason Fields  |  Democrat  |  1923-1927
Flemon Davis "Flem" Sampson |  Republican  |  1927-1931
Ruby Laffoon  |  Democrat  |  1931-1935
A. B. "Happy" Chandler |  Democrat  |  1935-1939, 1955-1959
Keen Johnson  |  Democrat  |  1939-1943
Simeon Slavens Willis |  Republican  |  1943-1947
Earle Chester Clements |  Democrat  |  1947-1950
Lawrence Winchester Wetherby  |  Democrat  |  1950-1955
Bertram Thomas "Bert" Combs  |  Democrat  |  1959-1963
Edward Thompson Breathitt  |  Democrat  |  1963-1967
Louie B. Nunn |  Republican  |  1967-1971
Wendell Hampton Ford  |  Democrat  |  1971-1974
Julian Morton Carroll  |  Democrat  |  1974-1979
John Young Brown, Jr.  |  Democrat  |  1979-1983
Martha Layne Collins  |  Democrat  |  1983-1987
Wallace Glenn Wilkinson |  Democrat  |  1987-1991
Brereton Chandler Jones |  Democrat  |  1991-1995
Paul E. Patton  |  Democrat  |  1995-2003
Ernie Fletcher |  Republican  |  2003-2007
Steven L. Beshear |  Democrat  |  2007–2015
Matt Bevin |  Republican  |  2015–2019
Andy Beshear |  Democrat  |  2019-present

## Further reading[edit]

* Harrison, Lowell H., ed. Kentucky's Governors, 1792-1985. Lexington: U. Press of Kentucky, 1985. 217 pp.

## Notes[edit]

1. ↑ http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.8fd3d12ab65b304f8a278110501010a0?submit=Submit&State=KY

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