Research Catalog

Title

Kentucky's governors / edited by Lowell H. Harrison.

Publication

Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, ©2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Harrison, Lowell H. (Lowell Hayes), 1922-2011

Description

xxiii, 294 pages : portraits; 24 cm

Summary

Of all who have held the office of chief executive of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, some governors have been good, some have been at best mediocre, and a few have approached greatness. Whether famous, infamous, or merely obscure, the entire cast of Kentucky's gubernatorial history is collected here, in a single convenient reference colume, now updated and expanded to reflect developments of the last twenty years.

Uniform Title

Kentucky's governors, 1792-1985.

Subjects

• Governors
• Biographies
• Kentucky > Politics and government
• Politics and government
• Governors > Kentucky > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Biographies.

Note

• Updated ed. of: Kentucky's governors, 1792-1985. c1985.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The Kentucky governorship: an overview / Thomas D. Clark -- Isaac Shelby (1792-1796, 1812-1816) / Paul W. Beasley -- James Garrard (1796-1804) / H.E. Everman -- Christopher Greenup (1804-1808) / James F. Hopkins -- Charles Scott (1808-1812) / Harry M. Ward -- George Madison (1816) ; Gabriel Slaughter (1816-1820) / James F. Hopkins -- John Adair (1820-1824) ; Joseph Desha (1824-1828) / Charles J. Bussey -- Thomas Metcalfe (1828-1832) ; John Breathitt (1832-1834) ; James Turner Morehead (1834-1836) / Frank F. Mathias -- James Clark (1836-1839) / Victor B. Howard -- Charles Anderson Wickliffe (1839-1840) / Helen Bartter Crocker -- Robert Perkins Letcher (1840-1844) / Frank H. Heck -- William Owsley (1844-1848) / Stuart Seely Sprague -- John Jordan Crittenden (1848-1850) / Victor B. Howard -- John Larue Helm (1850-1851, 1867) / Tom Owen -- Lazarus Whitehead Powell (1851-1855) ; Charles Slaughter Morehead (1855-1859) / James A. Ramage -- Beriah Magoffin (1859-1862) ; George W. Johnson (1861-1862, Confederate) ; Richard Hawes (1862-1865, Confederate) / Lowell H. Harrison -- James F. Robinson (1862-1863) / John David Smith -- Thomas Elliott Bramlette (1863-1867) / Ross A. Webb -- John White Stevenson (1867-1871) / Tom Owen -- Preston Hopkins Leslie (1871-1875) / Ross A. Webb -- James B. McCreary (1875-1879, 1911-1915) / Nicholas C. Burckel -- Luke Pryor Blackburn (1879-1883) / Nancy Disher Baird -- J. Proctor Knott (1883-1887) / Robert M. Ireland -- Simon Bolivar Buckner (1887-1891) / Lowell H. Harrison -- John Young Brown (1891-1895) / Robert M. Ireland -- William O'Connell Bradley (1895-1899) ; William Sylvester Taylor (1899-1900) ; William Goebel (1900) / James C. Klotter -- J.C.W. Beckham (1900-1907) / Nicholas C. Burckel -- Augustus Everett Willson (1907-1911) ; Augustus Owsley Stanley (1915-1919) / Thomas H. Appleton Jr. -- James Dixon Black (1919) ; Edwin Porch Morrow (1919-1923) / Melba Porter Hay -- William Jason Fields (1923-1927) / William E. Ellis -- Flem D. Sampson (1927-1931) / Robert F. Sexton -- Ruby Laffoon (1931-1935) / William E. Ellis -- Albert Benjamin Chandler (1935-1939, 1955-1959) / Charles P. Roland -- Keen Johnson (1939-1943) / Frederic D. Ogden -- Simeon Willis (1943-1947) / James C. Klotter -- Earle Chester Clements (1947-1950) / Thomas H. Syvertsen -- Lawrence W. Wetherby (1950-1955) / John E. Kleber -- Bert T. Combs (1959-1963) / George W. Robinson -- Edward Thompson Breathitt Jr. (1963-1967) / Kenneth E. Harrell -- Louie B. Nunn (1967-1971) / Robert F. Sexton and Al Cross -- Wendell Hampton Ford (1971-1974) / Landis Jones -- Julian Morton Carroll (1974-1979) / Stuart Seely Sprague and Al Cross -- John Y. Brown Jr. (1979-1983) / Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau and Bruce L. McClure -- Martha Layne Collins (1983-1987) / Ed Ryan and Elizabeth Duffy Fraas -- Wallace Glenn Wilkinson (1987-1991) / Roger C. Adams -- Brereton C. Jones (1991-1995) / Penny M. Miller -- Paul Edward Patton (1995-2003) / Paul Blanchard -- Ernest Lee Fletcher (2003- ) / Al Cross.

ISBN

• 0813123267
• 9780813123264

LCCN

2004017747

OCLC

• ocm56107765
• 56107765
• SCSB-1345809

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library