31 Oct 2018 Thomas Metcalfe THOMAS METCALFE was born in Fauquier County, Virginia on March 20, 1780. His education was limited and attained at home and in rural schools of Kentucky. After apprenticing in the… National Governors Association
31 Oct 2018 John Breathitt JOHN BREATHITT, Kentucky's first Democratic governor, was born in Henry County, Virginia on September 9, 1786. His early education was attained at home and in the rural schools of his… National Governors Association
31 Oct 2018 James Turner Morehead JAMES TURNER MOREHEAD was born near Shepherdsville, Kentucky on May 24, 1797. His education was attained in the Kentucky public school system and at Transylvania University. He studied law, was… National Governors Association
31 Oct 2018 James Clark JAMES CLARK was born in Bedford County, Virginia on January 16, 1779. His early education was attained through private tutors and at the Pisgah Academy in Woodford County, Kentucky. He… National Governors Association
31 Oct 2018 Charles Anderson Wickliffe CHARLES A. WICKLIFFE was born in Springfield, Kentucky on June 8, 1788. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1809, and established a successful legal career in Bardstown.… National Governors Association
31 Oct 2018 Robert Perkins Letcher ROBERT P. LETCHER was born in Goochland County, Virginia on February 10, 1788. After his family moved to Garrard County, Kentucky in 1800, Letcher attended the Joshua Fry Academy and… National Governors Association
31 Oct 2018 William Owsley WILLIAM OWSLEY was born in Virginia on March 24, 1782. In 1783, his family moved to Kentucky and settled in Lincoln County, where Owsley attended the common schools. Before he… National Governors Association
31 Oct 2018 John Jordan Crittenden JOHN J. CRITTENDEN was born near Versailles, Kentucky on September 10, 1786. His education was attained at the Pisgah Academy, Washington and Lee University, and at William and Mary College,… National Governors Association
31 Oct 2018 John Larue Helm JOHN L. HELM was born near Elizabethtown, Kentucky on July 4, 1802. His early education was attained through a private tutor and in the rural schools of his native state.… National Governors Association
31 Oct 2018 Lazarus Whitehead Powell LAZARUS W. POWELL was born near Henderson, Kentucky on October 6, 1812. In 1833, he graduated from St. Joseph College in Bardstown, and then attended Transylvania College, where he studied… National Governors Association
31 Oct 2018 Charles Slaughter Morehead CHARLES S. MOREHEAD was born near Bardstown, Kentucky on July 7, 1802. His education was attained at Transylvania College, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1820, and a law… National Governors Association
31 Oct 2018 Beriah Magoffin BERIAH MAGOFFIN was born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky on April 18, 1815. His education was attained at Centre College, where he graduated in 1835, and at Transylvania College, where he earned… National Governors Association