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border-bottom:solid 1px #ccd2d9;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Seal_of_Kentucky.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Seal_of_Kentucky.svg/110px-Seal_of_Kentucky.svg.png" decoding="async" width="110" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Seal_of_Kentucky.svg/165px-Seal_of_Kentucky.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Seal_of_Kentucky.svg/220px-Seal_of_Kentucky.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="662" data-file-height="662" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="/wiki/Seal_of_Kentucky" title="Seal of Kentucky">Commonwealth seal</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="padding-bottom:0.4em; border-bottom:solid 1px #ccd2d9;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Kentucky.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Flag_of_Kentucky.svg/120px-Flag_of_Kentucky.svg.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="63" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Flag_of_Kentucky.svg/180px-Flag_of_Kentucky.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Flag_of_Kentucky.svg/240px-Flag_of_Kentucky.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="950" data-file-height="500" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Kentucky" title="Flag of Kentucky">Flag of the Commonwealth of Kentucky</a></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div style="padding-bottom:0.4em; border-bottom:solid 1px #ccd2d9; line-height:1.4em;"><div style="padding-bottom:0.4em;"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Governor_Beshear_2023_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Governor_Beshear_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg/200px-Governor_Beshear_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="263" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Governor_Beshear_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg/300px-Governor_Beshear_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Governor_Beshear_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg/400px-Governor_Beshear_2023_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="725" data-file-height="954" /></a></span></div><div style="display:inline;font-weight:bold;">Incumbent<br /><a href="/wiki/Andy_Beshear" title="Andy Beshear">Andy Beshear</a><br /></div>since December 10, 2019</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Government_of_Kentucky" title="Government of Kentucky">Government of Kentucky</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Style_(form_of_address)" title="Style (form of address)">Style</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Governor_(United_States)" title="Governor (United States)">Governor</a> (informal) <br /> <a href="/wiki/The_Honorable" class="mw-redirect" title="The Honorable">The Honorable</a> (formal) <br /> <a href="/wiki/Excellency" title="Excellency">His Excellency</a> (diplomatic)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Head_of_state" title="Head of state">Head of state</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Head_of_government" title="Head of government">Head of government</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Member of</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Government_of_Kentucky" title="Government of Kentucky">Kentucky Executive Branch</a> <br /> Kentucky Cabinet</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Official_residence" title="Official residence">Residence</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kentucky_Governor%27s_Mansion" title="Kentucky Governor's Mansion">Kentucky Governor's Mansion</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Appointer</th><td class="infobox-data">Popular vote<br /><a href="/wiki/Gubernatorial_lines_of_succession_in_the_United_States" title="Gubernatorial lines of succession in the United States">Line of succession</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Term_of_office" title="Term of office">Term length</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Four years, renewable once consecutively</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Constituting instrument</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Kentucky" title="Constitution of Kentucky">Constitution of Kentucky</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Inaugural holder</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Shelby" title="Isaac Shelby">Isaac Shelby</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Formation</th><td class="infobox-data">June 4, 1792</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Deputy</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_Kentucky" title="Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky">Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Salary</th><td class="infobox-data">$164,355 (2023)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://governor.ky.gov/">governor<wbr />.ky<wbr />.gov</a></span> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4151335#P856" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky</b> is the <a href="/wiki/Head_of_government" title="Head of government">head of government</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kentucky" title="Kentucky">Kentucky</a>. Sixty-two men and one woman have served as governor of Kentucky. The governor's term is four years in length; since 1992, incumbents have been able to seek re-election once before becoming ineligible for four years. Throughout the state's history, four men have served two non-consecutive terms as governor, and four others have served two consecutive terms, the most recent being current governor <a href="/wiki/Andy_Beshear" title="Andy Beshear">Andy Beshear</a>, who was re-elected to a second term on November 7, 2023. Kentucky is one of only five U.S. states that hold gubernatorial elections in <a href="/wiki/Off-year_election" title="Off-year election">odd-numbered years</a>. </p><p>The governor's powers are enumerated in the <a href="/wiki/Kentucky_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="Kentucky Constitution">state constitution</a>. There have been four constitutions of Kentucky—adopted in 1792, 1799, 1850, and 1891, respectively—and each has enlarged the governor's authority. Among the powers assigned to the governor in the constitution are the ability to grant <a href="/wiki/Pardon" title="Pardon">pardons</a>, <a href="/wiki/Veto" title="Veto">veto</a> legislation, and call the <a href="/wiki/Kentucky_General_Assembly" title="Kentucky General Assembly">legislature</a> into session. The governor serves as <a href="/wiki/Commander-in-chief" title="Commander-in-chief">commander-in-chief</a> of the state's <a href="/wiki/Kentucky_National_Guard" title="Kentucky National Guard">military forces</a> and is empowered to enforce all laws of the state. The officeholder is given broad statutory authority to make appointments to the various cabinets and departments of the executive branch, limited somewhat by the adoption of a <a href="/wiki/Merit_system" title="Merit system">merit system</a> for state employees in 1960. Because Kentucky's governor controls so many appointments to commissions, the office has been historically considered one of the most powerful state executive positions in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>. Additionally, the governor's influence has been augmented by wide discretion in awarding state contracts and significant influence over the legislature, although the latter has been waning since the mid-1970s. </p><p>The history of the office of Governor is largely one of long periods of domination by a single party, though different parties were predominant in different eras. <a href="/wiki/Federalist_Party" title="Federalist Party">Federalists</a> were rare among Kentuckians during the period of the <a href="/wiki/First_Party_System" title="First Party System">First Party System</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Democratic-Republican_Party" title="Democratic-Republican Party">Democratic Republicans</a> won every gubernatorial election in the state until 1828. The <a href="/wiki/Second_Party_System" title="Second Party System">Second Party System</a> began when the Democratic-Republicans split into <a href="/wiki/Jacksonian_democracy" title="Jacksonian democracy">Jacksonian Democrats</a> (the predecessor of the modern <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic Party</a>) and <a href="/wiki/National_Republican_Party" title="National Republican Party">National Republicans</a> (later to become <a href="/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States)" title="Whig Party (United States)">Whigs</a>). Beginning with the election of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Metcalfe_(Kentucky_politician)" title="Thomas Metcalfe (Kentucky politician)">Thomas Metcalfe</a> in 1828, the Whigs dominated the governorship until 1851, with <a href="/wiki/John_Breathitt" title="John Breathitt">John Breathitt</a> being the only Democrat elected during that period. </p><p>With the collapse of the Whig Party in the 1850s, Democrats took control of the governorship for the duration of the <a href="/wiki/Third_Party_System" title="Third Party System">Third Party System</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Charles_S._Morehead" title="Charles S. Morehead">Charles S. Morehead</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Know_Nothing" title="Know Nothing">Know Nothing Party</a> being the only exception. The election of <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> <a href="/wiki/William_O%27Connell_Bradley" title="William O'Connell Bradley">William O'Connell Bradley</a> in 1895 began the only period of true two-party competition for the governorship; from Bradley's election through 1931, five Republicans and six Democrats held the office of governor of Kentucky. Since 1931, only four Republicans have served as governor of Kentucky, and no Republican governor has ever been re-elected; the most recent past governor, <a href="/wiki/Matt_Bevin" title="Matt Bevin">Matt Bevin</a>, lost re-election. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Powers_and_responsibilities">Powers and responsibilities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Governor_of_Kentucky&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Powers and responsibilities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gov_of_ky_office.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Gov_of_ky_office.jpg/220px-Gov_of_ky_office.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Gov_of_ky_office.jpg/330px-Gov_of_ky_office.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Gov_of_ky_office.jpg/440px-Gov_of_ky_office.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="1704" /></a><figcaption>The governor's office</figcaption></figure> <p>In all four <a href="/wiki/Kentucky_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="Kentucky Constitution">Kentucky constitutions</a>, the first power enumerated to the governor is to serve as <a href="/wiki/Commander-in-chief" title="Commander-in-chief">commander-in-chief</a> of the state's <a href="/wiki/Militia" title="Militia">militia</a> and military forces.<sup id="cite_ref-cic_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cic-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1799, a stipulation was added that the governor would not personally lead troops on the battlefield unless advised to do so by a resolution of the <a href="/wiki/Kentucky_General_Assembly" title="Kentucky General Assembly">General Assembly</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-cic_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cic-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Such a case occurred in 1813 when Governor <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Shelby" title="Isaac Shelby">Isaac Shelby</a>, a veteran of the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">Revolutionary War</a>, was asked to lead a band of Kentucky troops to aid <a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Harrison" title="William Henry Harrison">William Henry Harrison</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Thames" title="Battle of the Thames">Battle of the Thames</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-kye815_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kye815-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For his service, Shelby received the <a href="/wiki/Thanks_of_Congress" title="Thanks of Congress">Thanks of Congress</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Congressional_Gold_Medal" title="Congressional Gold Medal">Congressional Gold Medal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-townsend19_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-townsend19-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Among the other powers and responsibilities of the governor that appear in all four constitutions are the power to enforce all laws, the power to fill vacancies in elected offices until the next meeting of the General Assembly, and the power to remit fines and grant <a href="/wiki/Pardon" title="Pardon">pardons</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-clarkxv_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-clarkxv-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The power to pardon is not applicable to cases of <a href="/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States" title="Impeachment in the United States">impeachment</a>, and in cases of <a href="/wiki/Treason" title="Treason">treason</a>, a gubernatorial pardon is only effective until the end of the next session of the General Assembly, which can grant a full pardon for treason.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 1891 constitution further required that, with each application for a pardon, the governor file "a statement of the reasons for his decision thereon, which ... shall always be open to public inspection."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This requirement was first proposed by a delegate to the 1850 constitutional convention, but it was rejected at that time.<sup id="cite_ref-clarkxvii_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-clarkxvii-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Historically, power in Kentucky's executive has been split amongst a variety of elected positions—including <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_Kentucky" title="Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky">Lieutenant Governor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Attorney_General_of_Kentucky" title="Attorney General of Kentucky">Attorney General</a>, <a href="/wiki/Accountant" title="Accountant">Auditor of Public Accounts</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kentucky_State_Treasurer" title="Kentucky State Treasurer">Treasurer</a>, and several commissioners—but in the late 20th century, political power has centralized in the office of Governor.<sup id="cite_ref-ferguson_290_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ferguson_290-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Convening_and_adjourning_the_legislature">Convening and adjourning the legislature</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Governor_of_Kentucky&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Convening and adjourning the legislature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The power of the governor to adjourn the General Assembly for a period of up to four months if the <a href="/wiki/Bicameralism" title="Bicameralism">two houses</a> cannot agree on a time to adjourn appears in all four constitutions.<sup id="cite_ref-sessions_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sessions-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The governor is also empowered to convene the General Assembly "on extraordinary occasions".<sup id="cite_ref-sessions_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sessions-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since the 1799 constitution, the governor has been permitted to call the legislature into session somewhere other than the <a href="/wiki/Frankfort,_Kentucky" title="Frankfort, Kentucky">state capital</a> if the capital had, since the last legislative session, "become dangerous from an enemy or from contagious diseases."<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was an important provision in the early days of the Commonwealth, when <a href="/wiki/Epidemic" title="Epidemic">epidemics</a> like <a href="/wiki/Smallpox" title="Smallpox">smallpox</a> posed a danger to the populace.<sup id="cite_ref-clarkxvi_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-clarkxvi-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One notable example of an attempt to employ this power was in 1900 when <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> governor <a href="/wiki/William_S._Taylor_(Kentucky_politician)" title="William S. Taylor (Kentucky politician)">William S. Taylor</a> attempted to adjourn the legislature and re-convene it in heavily Republican <a href="/wiki/London,_Kentucky" title="London, Kentucky">London, Kentucky</a> following the shooting of <a href="/wiki/William_Goebel" title="William Goebel">William Goebel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-clarkxvi_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-clarkxvi-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Taylor claimed a state of insurrection existed in the capital, but defiant <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democrats</a> refused to heed the call to adjourn or to convene in London.<sup id="cite_ref-nhok272_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nhok272-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 1891 constitution added a provision that the governor must specify the reason for any specially called legislative session, and that no other business could be considered during the session.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is, however, no constitutional requirement that the legislature conduct any business during the called session. In 2007, Republican governor <a href="/wiki/Ernie_Fletcher" title="Ernie Fletcher">Ernie Fletcher</a> called the Assembly into session to consider a long list of items.<sup id="cite_ref-covington_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-covington-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Democratically controlled <a href="/wiki/Kentucky_House_of_Representatives" title="Kentucky House of Representatives">House of Representatives</a> maintained that none of the items were urgent enough that they could not wait until the regular session convened; they claimed that Fletcher was calling the session only to boost his sagging poll numbers before the <a href="/wiki/2007_Kentucky_gubernatorial_election" title="2007 Kentucky gubernatorial election">upcoming election</a> in which he faced a challenge from Democrat <a href="/wiki/Steve_Beshear" title="Steve Beshear">Steve Beshear</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-covington_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-covington-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The House convened on the day appointed and adjourned an hour later without transacting any business.<sup id="cite_ref-covington_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-covington-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Veto">Veto</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Governor_of_Kentucky&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Veto"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Unlike the <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">U.S. President</a>, the governor does not have the option of a <a href="/wiki/Pocket_veto" title="Pocket veto">pocket veto</a>. If the governor does not make a decision to sign or veto a bill, it automatically becomes law after 10 days.<sup id="cite_ref-veto_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-veto-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the event that the legislature adjourns to prevent the return of a bill by veto, the bill becomes law three days after the commencement of the next legislative session unless the governor explicitly vetoes it.<sup id="cite_ref-veto_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-veto-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (With the federal pocket veto, the bill is considered vetoed after ten days if the legislature adjourns.)<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The 1799 constitution contained, for the first time, the power of the governor to <a href="/wiki/Veto" title="Veto">veto</a> legislation; this power was substantially similar to, and probably based upon, that found in the 1792 <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_New_Hampshire" title="Constitution of New Hampshire">New Hampshire Constitution</a> and the 1798 <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Constitution of Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia Constitution</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-clarkxvi_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-clarkxvi-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 1891 constitution empowered the governor with a <a href="/wiki/Line-item_veto" title="Line-item veto">line-item veto</a>, but its use was forbidden on constitutional amendments and laws related to the classification of property for tax purposes. The governor's veto can be overridden by <a href="/wiki/Voting_methods_in_deliberative_assemblies#Recorded_vote" title="Voting methods in deliberative assemblies">roll-call</a> majority votes of both houses of the legislature;<sup id="cite_ref-veto_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-veto-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> unlike in most states where a supermajority is required to override a veto.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Budget">Budget</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Governor_of_Kentucky&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Budget"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Although setting the state budget is a legislative function in many states, Kentucky governors are required by statute to present a proposed biennial budget to the General Assembly for approval shortly after the beginning of its even-year sessions.<sup id="cite_ref-taylor_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-taylor-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-clarkxxiii_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-clarkxxiii-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The governor's budget has often been approved with few changes, but since the Republicans took control of the <a href="/wiki/Kentucky_Senate" title="Kentucky Senate">state senate</a> for the first time in 1999, approval has become a much more contentious process.<sup id="cite_ref-clarkxxiii_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-clarkxxiii-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-kye380_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kye380-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The General Assembly failed to pass a budget before the end of its session in both 2002 and 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-york_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-york-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In both cases, the state operated under an executive spending plan drafted by the governor until the legislature could re-convene and pass a budget.<sup id="cite_ref-york_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-york-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2005 the <a href="/wiki/Kentucky_Supreme_Court" title="Kentucky Supreme Court">Kentucky Supreme Court</a> ruled that the governor had no authority to expend funds without legislative approval, and that if legislators failed to pass a budget in the future, only expenditures explicitly authorized in the state constitution could be made.<sup id="cite_ref-york_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-york-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Administration_and_appointments">Administration and appointments</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Governor_of_Kentucky&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Administration and appointments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Although the Kentucky constitution designates the governor as the head of the executive branch of state government, it does not specify the means of carrying out that role.<sup id="cite_ref-freedman1_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-freedman1-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Empowered to nominate all constitutional officers by the state's first constitution, that power of the office of the governor has been reduced in subsequent constitutions, as more of those offices became elective.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Because the governor is not explicitly authorized by the constitution to conduct many of the functions necessary to administer the state government, the officeholder has had to rely on empowering legislation enacted by the General Assembly.<sup id="cite_ref-freedman1_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-freedman1-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With this in mind, Kentucky historian <a href="/wiki/Thomas_D._Clark" title="Thomas D. Clark">Thomas D. Clark</a> wrote in 2004 that extensive executive powers had been granted through the creation of a large number of commissions that reported to the governor: </p> <blockquote><p>During the past century and a half, and especially in the later 20th century, it would have been impossible for state government to operate efficiently without a broadening of executive powers. Through the years the General Assembly has created a myriad of commissions and turned them over to the governor to exercise administrative oversight. ... All of these commissions extended the influence of the governor into every phase of human life in the commonwealth, well beyond the limitations of executive power envisioned by delegates to the constitutional convention in 1891.<sup id="cite_ref-clarkxviii_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-clarkxviii-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>By 1934, the executive branch consisted of sixty-nine boards, commissions, and agencies in addition to the constitutional officers, although the members of these commissions were often the constitutional officers themselves. Governor <a href="/wiki/Ruby_Laffoon" title="Ruby Laffoon">Ruby Laffoon</a> proposed the Administrative Reorganization Act of 1934 to organize these boards and commissions into seventeen executive departments and seven independent agencies. The General Assembly passed this legislation, giving the executive branch some semblance of structure for the first time.<sup id="cite_ref-freedman3_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-freedman3-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Happy_Chandler_-_Harris_and_Ewing_Crop.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A man in his fifties, with thinning black hair, sitting at a desk, face-forward, wearing a suit" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Happy_Chandler_-_Harris_and_Ewing_Crop.jpg/220px-Happy_Chandler_-_Harris_and_Ewing_Crop.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="303" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Happy_Chandler_-_Harris_and_Ewing_Crop.jpg/330px-Happy_Chandler_-_Harris_and_Ewing_Crop.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Happy_Chandler_-_Harris_and_Ewing_Crop.jpg/440px-Happy_Chandler_-_Harris_and_Ewing_Crop.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2521" data-file-height="3468" /></a><figcaption>Happy Chandler created greater efficiency in state government under the Reorganization Act of 1936.</figcaption></figure> <p>Laffoon's successor, <a href="/wiki/Happy_Chandler" title="Happy Chandler">Happy Chandler</a>, called a special legislative session in 1936 seeking passage of another reorganization act.<sup id="cite_ref-freedman3_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-freedman3-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This act abolished several commissions and organized those remaining into ten statutory departments: Finance, Revenue, Highways, Health, Welfare, Industrial Relations, Business Regulation, Conservation, Libraries and Archives, and Mines and Minerals.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Act also created the Executive Cabinet, consisting of the constitutional officers and the heads of each of the ten statutory departments.<sup id="cite_ref-freedman5_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-freedman5-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The efficiencies created by Chandler's reorganization allowed him to pay off more than three-quarters of the state's $28.5 million debt.<sup id="cite_ref-kygovs171_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kygovs171-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Besides effecting the reorganization of the executive branch, the Reorganization Act of 1936 also explicitly empowered the governor to appoint executive department heads and establish, combine, or divide departments as necessary.<sup id="cite_ref-freedman8_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-freedman8-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later statutes gave the governor the power to appoint advisory committees on reorganization, appoint deputy heads of divisions, transfer employees and change their responsibilities within the executive branch, and establish general rules of conduct for executive branch members.<sup id="cite_ref-freedman8_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-freedman8-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 35 years between the time of Chandler's reorganization and the election of <a href="/wiki/Wendell_Ford" title="Wendell Ford">Wendell H. Ford</a> as governor in 1971, the executive branch had again become unwieldy. 60 departments and 210 boards reported directly to the governor by 1972, and duplication of services between departments had created inefficiencies. On January 1, 1973, a plan that Ford had issued in late 1972 took effect, consolidating the departments reporting to him into six program cabinets: Consumer Protection and Regulation, Development, Education and the Arts, Human Resources, Safety and Justice, and Transportation. Ford continued merging departments and reorganizing the executive branch throughout 1973 to the extent that, by the end of the year, there were only three program cabinets (Development, Education and the Arts, and Consumer Protection and Regulation) and four additional departments (Human Resources, Justice, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, and Transportation).<sup id="cite_ref-freedman6_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-freedman6-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 2002, the executive branch had again grown to fourteen cabinets, but had no additional departments.<sup id="cite_ref-freedman7_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-freedman7-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shortly after his election in 2003, Governor Ernie Fletcher undertook the last major reorganization of the executive branch to date, reducing the number of cabinets to nine—Justice and Public Safety, Education and Workforce Development, Environmental and Public Protection, Transportation, Economic Development, Health and Family Services, Finance and Administration, Tourism, Arts and Heritage, and Personnel.<sup id="cite_ref-fletchernga_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fletchernga-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Because the governor controls so many appointments to commissions—approximately 2,000 according to a 1992 estimate—the office has been historically considered one of the most powerful state executive positions in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-kye380_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kye380-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additionally, the governor is given wide discretion in awarding state contracts, further augmenting his influence.<sup id="cite_ref-kye380_21-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kye380-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the second half of the 20th century, attempts were made to curb the use of the governor's appointment power for political <a href="/wiki/Patronage" title="Patronage">patronage</a>. During his second term in office, Happy Chandler issued an executive order creating a <a href="/wiki/Merit_system" title="Merit system">merit system</a> that forbade the hiring or firing of state employees for political reasons; his successor, <a href="/wiki/Bert_Combs" title="Bert Combs">Bert Combs</a>, pushed a new merit system through the legislature, protecting it from abolition by executive order.<sup id="cite_ref-pearce104_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pearce104-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite the presence of the merit system, many governors have been criticized for abusing their appointment power.<sup id="cite_ref-clarkxix_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-clarkxix-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2005, Ernie Fletcher and several members of his administration were <a href="/wiki/Indictment" title="Indictment">indicted</a> for violating the merit system in their hiring practices; the charges were later dropped as part of an agreement with the prosecutor, <a href="/wiki/Attorney_General_of_Kentucky" title="Attorney General of Kentucky">Attorney General</a> <a href="/wiki/Greg_Stumbo" title="Greg Stumbo">Greg Stumbo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Unofficial_powers">Unofficial powers</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Governor_of_Kentucky&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Unofficial powers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <i>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</i>, <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Kentucky_University" title="Eastern Kentucky University">Eastern Kentucky University</a> professor Paul Blanchard writes that "Many observers consider the governor's informal powers—those derived from tradition, custom, and precedent—as important as the formal powers."<sup id="cite_ref-kye380_21-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kye380-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Frequently the leaders of their political parties at the state level, Kentucky governors usually control the party's delegations to state and national party conventions.<sup id="cite_ref-clarkxix_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-clarkxix-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Though given few powers with regard to the legislature, Kentucky governors can exercise a great deal of influence over the General Assembly, often hand-selecting the leadership of both chambers.<sup id="cite_ref-taylor_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-taylor-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-kye130_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kye130-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A move toward a more independent legislature began in the last quarter of the 20th century, particularly during the administration of Governor <a href="/wiki/John_Y._Brown_Jr." title="John Y. Brown Jr.">John Y. Brown Jr.</a> from 1979 to 1983.<sup id="cite_ref-taylor_19-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-taylor-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Brown was much less engaged in legislative affairs than his predecessors; he did not seek to influence the selection of the legislature's leadership, and he left on vacation during one of the two legislative sessions of his term.<sup id="cite_ref-kye130_38-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kye130-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nhok417_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nhok417-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The trend toward a coequal legislature continued under the administrations of Brown's two immediate successors, <a href="/wiki/Martha_Layne_Collins" title="Martha Layne Collins">Martha Layne Collins</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wallace_Wilkinson" title="Wallace Wilkinson">Wallace Wilkinson</a>, neither of whom was considered a strong executive.<sup id="cite_ref-kye380_21-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kye380-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The governor is also the most visible state officer and is the center of political attention in the Commonwealth.<sup id="cite_ref-clarkxix_36-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-clarkxix-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The official host of the state when dignitaries visit, the governor frequently delivers addresses at various dedications and ceremonies, and appears on national television with the winner of the annual <a href="/wiki/Kentucky_Derby" title="Kentucky Derby">Kentucky Derby</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-clarkxix_36-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-clarkxix-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The state constitution requires the governor to <a href="/wiki/State_of_the_State_address" title="State of the State address">address the legislature periodically regarding the state of the Commonwealth</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This address, traditionally given annually, is often targeted directly at the state's citizens as much as, or more so than, the legislature.<sup id="cite_ref-clarkxviii_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-clarkxviii-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The governor can use the address to extol the accomplishments of his or her term and lay out a specific plan for the upcoming legislative session; the contents of the address often shape the agenda of the session.<sup id="cite_ref-clarkxviii_25-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-clarkxviii-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The state's media outlets devote significant coverage to the governor's actions, and many strong governors have used the media to win support for their agendas and criticize political enemies.<sup id="cite_ref-kye380_21-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kye380-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Qualifications_and_term">Qualifications and term</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Governor_of_Kentucky&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Qualifications and term"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Candidates for the office of governor of Kentucky must be at least thirty years of age and have resided in the state for at least six years preceding the general election. The residency requirement was increased from two years to six years in the constitution of 1799 and all subsequent constitutions. The 1792 constitution—the state's first—also included an exception for candidates who had been absent from the state "on the public business of the United States or of this State." The age requirement was raised from thirty years to thirty-five years in the 1799 constitution and was returned to thirty years in the 1891 constitution.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A prohibition against any person concurrently holding the office of governor and a federal office appears in the first three state constitutions, but is absent in the state's current charter.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additionally, the 1799 constitution barred a "minister of any religious society" from holding the office.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This language was possibly aimed at the sitting governor, <a href="/wiki/James_Garrard" title="James Garrard">James Garrard</a>, who was an ordained <a href="/wiki/Baptists" title="Baptists">Baptist</a> minister and had frequently clashed with the legislature.<sup id="cite_ref-nhok78_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nhok78-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The prohibition against ministers holding the office remained in the 1850 constitution, but was removed from the 1891 constitution.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1891 constitution, a section was included that forbade anyone from holding any state office—including the office of governor—who had "either directly or indirectly, give[n], accept[ed] or knowingly carr[ied] a challenge to any person or persons to fight in single combat, with a citizen of this State, with a deadly weapon, either in or out of the State".<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This provision reflected the prevalence of <a href="/wiki/Duel" title="Duel">duelling</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Southern_United_States" title="Southern United States">South</a> at the time.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The gubernatorial oath of office states: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of this Commonwealth, and be faithful and true to the Commonwealth of Kentucky so long as I continue to be a citizen thereof, and that I will faithfully execute, to the best of my ability, the office of Governor according to law; and I do further solemnly swear that since the adoption of the present Constitution, I, being a citizen of this state, have not fought a duel with deadly weapons within this state, nor out of it, nor have I sent or accepted a challenge to fight a duel with deadly weapons, nor have I acted as second in carrying a challenge, nor aided or assisted any person thus offending, so help me God."<sup id="cite_ref-duel_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-duel-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>The governor's term has been for four years in all four state constitutions.<sup id="cite_ref-freedman11_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-freedman11-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The governor was not <a href="/wiki/Term_limits_in_the_United_States" title="Term limits in the United States">term-limited</a> in the 1792 constitution, but in the 1799 constitution, the governor was made ineligible for re-election for seven years following the expiration of his term.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The provision did not apply to then-sitting governor James Garrard, who was re-elected in 1799.<sup id="cite_ref-kye363_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kye363-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 1850 constitution, the period of ineligibility following the expiration of the governor's term was shortened to four years, and it remained so in the 1891 constitution.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_50-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1953, Governor <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Wetherby" title="Lawrence Wetherby">Lawrence Wetherby</a> lamented the challenges presented by the term limit coupled with biennial legislative sessions: </p> <blockquote><p>A Kentucky governor is elected under our constitution for four years without legal opportunity, regardless of how acceptable his program has been, to put it before the public for approval or rejection. In practical application he must successfully run the legislative gauntlet during the first hurried ninety days he is in office if he is to adopt a program and have an administration worthy of history's harsh pen. The remaining general assembly two years hence is invariably plagued with vicissitudes common to '<a href="/wiki/Lame_duck_(politics)" title="Lame duck (politics)">lame duck</a>' tenures.<sup id="cite_ref-clarkxx_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-clarkxx-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>The idea of removing the gubernatorial term limit was first proposed in the 1850 constitutional convention, but was vigorously opposed by some of the state's best known statesmen of the day, including <a href="/wiki/Archibald_Dixon" title="Archibald Dixon">Archibald Dixon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Garrett_Davis" title="Garrett Davis">Garrett Davis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Hardin" title="Benjamin Hardin">Benjamin Hardin</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Charles_A._Wickliffe" title="Charles A. Wickliffe">Charles A. Wickliffe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-clarkxvii_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-clarkxvii-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Not until 1992 was an amendment to the state constitution passed to help ameliorate the situation by making the governor eligible to succeed himself one time before becoming ineligible for four years.<sup id="cite_ref-freedman11_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-freedman11-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Succession amendments had been proposed and defeated during the administrations of John Y. Brown Jr. and <a href="/wiki/Wallace_Wilkinson" title="Wallace Wilkinson">Wallace Wilkinson</a>, but then-Governor <a href="/wiki/Brereton_C._Jones" title="Brereton C. Jones">Brereton Jones</a> was able to see it passed because, unlike Brown and Wilkinson, he was willing to exempt the present incumbents, including himself, from the succession provision.<sup id="cite_ref-kygovs247_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kygovs247-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Paul_E._Patton" title="Paul E. Patton">Paul E. Patton</a>, with victories in the elections of 1995 and 1999, was the first governor to be elected to consecutive terms since the 1992 amendment.<sup id="cite_ref-kygovs251_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kygovs251-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another constitutional amendment, passed in November 2000, called for a 30-day legislative session to be held in odd-numbered years between the longer 60-day sessions held in even-numbered years.<sup id="cite_ref-clarkxx_52-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-clarkxx-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Election">Election</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Governor_of_Kentucky&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 1792 constitution, the governor and state senators were chosen by electors, in a manner similar to the operation of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Electoral_College" title="United States Electoral College">United States Electoral College</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kentucky_gubernatorial_election,_1795&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kentucky gubernatorial election, 1795 (page does not exist)">1795 gubernatorial election</a>, <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Logan" title="Benjamin Logan">Benjamin Logan</a> received 21 electoral votes, James Garrard received 17, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Todd" title="Thomas Todd">Thomas Todd</a> received 14, and <a href="/wiki/John_Brown_(Kentucky_politician,_born_1757)" title="John Brown (Kentucky politician, born 1757)">John Brown</a> received 1.<sup id="cite_ref-nhok75_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nhok75-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The constitution did not specify whether election required a <a href="/wiki/Plurality_(voting)" title="Plurality (voting)">plurality</a> or a <a href="/wiki/Majority" title="Majority">majority</a> of the electoral votes cast; in the absence of any instruction, the electors held a <a href="/wiki/Two-round_system" title="Two-round system">runoff vote</a>, wherein most of Todd's electors voted for Garrard, giving him a majority.<sup id="cite_ref-nhok75_56-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nhok75-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The secretary of state certified Garrard's election, though Attorney General <a href="/wiki/John_Breckinridge_(U.S._Attorney_General)" title="John Breckinridge (U.S. Attorney General)">John Breckinridge</a> questioned the legality of the second vote and Logan formally protested it.<sup id="cite_ref-nhok75_56-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nhok75-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ultimately, Breckinridge determined that he was not empowered by the state constitution to intervene, and Logan gave up the challenge.<sup id="cite_ref-nhok75_56-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nhok75-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 1799 constitution changed the method of selecting the governor to <a href="/wiki/Direct_election" title="Direct election">direct election</a> by majority vote and prescribed that, in the event of a tie vote, the governor would be chosen by <a href="/wiki/Sortition" title="Sortition">lot</a> in the Kentucky General Assembly.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This provision has remained since 1799.<sup id="cite_ref-freedman11_49-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-freedman11-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the development of the <a href="/wiki/Party_system" title="Party system">party system</a>, it became commonplace for <a href="/wiki/Political_party" title="Political party">political parties</a> to choose their nominees for the office of governor via a <a href="/wiki/United_States_presidential_nominating_convention" title="United States presidential nominating convention">nominating convention</a>. <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Metcalfe_(Kentucky_politician)" title="Thomas Metcalfe (Kentucky politician)">Thomas Metcalfe</a> was the first gubernatorial candidate chosen by a nominating convention; he was nominated by the <a href="/wiki/National_Republican_Party" title="National Republican Party">National Republican Party</a> at their convention in December 1827.<sup id="cite_ref-kye630_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kye630-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Governor Ruby Laffoon, elected in 1931, was the last governor of Kentucky nominated by a convention.<sup id="cite_ref-gipson38_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gipson38-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Laffoon's <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_Kentucky" title="Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky">lieutenant governor</a>, Happy Chandler, pushed the legislature to mandate party <a href="/wiki/Partisan_primary" class="mw-redirect" title="Partisan primary">primaries</a>, which they did in 1935.<sup id="cite_ref-kye179_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kye179-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Party primaries remain required by law today.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1992, the state constitution was amended to require candidates for governor and lieutenant governor to be nominated and elected as a <a href="/wiki/Ticket_(election)" title="Ticket (election)">ticket</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kentucky is one of only five U.S. states to hold gubernatorial elections in odd-numbered years—commonly called an <a href="/wiki/Off-year_election" title="Off-year election">off-year election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-biesk_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-biesk-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mississippi" title="Mississippi">Mississippi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a> also hold off-year gubernatorial elections.<sup id="cite_ref-biesk_63-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-biesk-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/General_election" title="General election">general election</a> for governor and lieutenant governor is held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The governor and lieutenant governor are <a href="/wiki/Inauguration" title="Inauguration">inaugurated</a> on the fifth Tuesday after their election.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was changed from the fourth Tuesday after the election by the 1850 constitution.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Succession">Succession</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Governor_of_Kentucky&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Succession"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Gubernatorial_lines_of_succession_in_the_United_States#Kentucky" title="Gubernatorial lines of succession in the United States">Gubernatorial lines of succession in the United States § Kentucky</a></div> <p>Under Kentucky's first constitution (1792), the <a href="/wiki/President_pro_tempore_of_the_Kentucky_Senate" title="President pro tempore of the Kentucky Senate">Speaker of the Kentucky Senate</a> became acting governor upon the death, resignation, or removal of the sitting governor from office, until a new election could be held.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 1799 constitution created the office of lieutenant governor, who acted as Speaker of the Senate, but was not otherwise considered a member of that body.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The lieutenant governor was to become governor in the event of the sitting governor's death, resignation, or removal from office and was to act in a gubernatorial capacity any time the governor was out of the state.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Whenever the lieutenant governor became the new governor, the Senate was to elect one of its members to act as Speaker; that individual then became next in the line of gubernatorial succession.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A provision of the 1850 constitution added that, if the governor's term had more than two years remaining at the time of his death, resignation, or removal from office, a special election would be called to fill the office; the lieutenant governor would become the new governor and serve in the interim.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the 1891 constitution, the chain of succession was extended. It mandated that, if the Senate was not in session and therefore did not have an elected Speaker, the secretary of state, or in the event of his inability to qualify, the attorney general, would become acting governor in the event of the death, resignation, or removal from office of the sitting governor and lieutenant governor. The secretary of state or attorney general would then be required to call the Senate into session to elect a Speaker, who would subsequently become governor.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 1992 amendment to the state constitution removed the provision under which the lieutenant governor became acting governor when the sitting governor was out of the state.<sup id="cite_ref-nhok423_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nhok423-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It also relieved the lieutenant governor of his duties in the Senate and created the office of <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_Kentucky_Senate" title="President of the Kentucky Senate">President of the Kentucky Senate</a>, chosen from among the state senators, who presides over the Senate.<sup id="cite_ref-ireland87_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ireland87-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The amendment also modified the chain of succession again—it is now as follows: </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:George_Madison.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A man in his early fifties with receding black hair, wearing a ruffled white shirt and black jacket, facing left" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/George_Madison.jpg/220px-George_Madison.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/George_Madison.jpg/330px-George_Madison.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/George_Madison.jpg 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="485" /></a><figcaption>George Madison's death in 1813 occasioned the first instance of gubernatorial succession in Kentucky.</figcaption></figure> <ol><li>Governor (Andy Beshear)</li> <li>Lieutenant Governor (<a href="/wiki/Jacqueline_Coleman" title="Jacqueline Coleman">Jacqueline Coleman</a>)</li> <li>President of the Senate (if the Senate is in session) (<a href="/wiki/Robert_Stivers" title="Robert Stivers">Robert Stivers</a>)</li> <li>Attorney General (if the Senate is not in session) (<a href="/wiki/Russell_Coleman" title="Russell Coleman">Russell Coleman</a>)</li> <li>State Auditor (if the Senate is not in session and the Attorney General fails to qualify) (<a href="/wiki/Allison_Ball" title="Allison Ball">Allison Ball</a>)</li></ol> <p>If the office devolves upon the attorney general or state auditor, that individual is required to call the Senate into session to elect a president, who would subsequently become governor.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first instance of gubernatorial succession in Kentucky's history occurred upon the death of Governor <a href="/wiki/George_Madison" title="George Madison">George Madison</a> in 1816. Madison was extremely popular as a twice-wounded war hero. He died of <a href="/wiki/Tuberculosis" title="Tuberculosis">tuberculosis</a> just three weeks into his term. His lieutenant governor, <a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Slaughter" title="Gabriel Slaughter">Gabriel Slaughter</a>, ascended to the governorship and immediately made two very unpopular appointments. These moves engendered much animosity toward Slaughter, and a movement began in the House of Representatives to hold a new election for governor. Leaders of the movement, including a young <a href="/wiki/John_C._Breckinridge" title="John C. Breckinridge">John C. Breckinridge</a>, claimed that Slaughter was only the "acting governor" until a new governor was elected. The call for a new election failed in the House in 1815, but was approved by the House in 1817 only to fail in the Senate. Slaughter served out the rest of Madison's term and in so doing, established the precedent that the lieutenant governor would be the permanent successor to the governor upon the latter's death, resignation, or removal from office.<sup id="cite_ref-powell24_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-powell24-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Besides Madison, four other governors have died while in office—<a href="/wiki/John_Breathitt" title="John Breathitt">John Breathitt</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Clark_(Kentucky_politician)" title="James Clark (Kentucky politician)">James Clark</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_L._Helm" title="John L. Helm">John L. Helm</a>, and William Goebel. All died of natural causes except Goebel, who is the only governor of any U.S. state to have been assassinated. Goebel lost the contentious <a href="/wiki/1899_Kentucky_gubernatorial_election" title="1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election">1899 gubernatorial election</a> to William S. Taylor, but challenged the results. While the General Assembly was considering the challenge, Goebel was shot. Days later, the General Assembly decided in favor of Goebel, ousting Taylor from office and making Goebel governor. Goebel was sworn in on his sick bed and died two days later. His lieutenant governor, <a href="/wiki/J._C._W._Beckham" title="J. C. W. Beckham">J. C. W. Beckham</a>, succeeded him.<sup id="cite_ref-kye377_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kye377-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>7 men have resigned the office of governor before the end of their terms—<a href="/wiki/John_J._Crittenden" title="John J. Crittenden">John J. Crittenden</a>, <a href="/wiki/Beriah_Magoffin" title="Beriah Magoffin">Beriah Magoffin</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_W._Stevenson" title="John W. Stevenson">John W. Stevenson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Augustus_Owsley_Stanley" title="Augustus Owsley Stanley">Augustus O. Stanley</a>, Happy Chandler, <a href="/wiki/Earle_Clements" title="Earle Clements">Earle C. Clements</a>, and Wendell H. Ford. 6 resigned to accept a higher office: Crittenden was appointed <a href="/wiki/United_States_Attorney_General" title="United States Attorney General">Attorney General of the United States</a> and the other 5 were elected to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate">U.S. Senate</a>. Only Beriah Magoffin resigned under duress. A <a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America">Confederate</a> sympathizer during the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">Civil War</a>, Magoffin's power was entirely checked by a hostile, pro-<a href="/wiki/Union_(American_Civil_War)" title="Union (American Civil War)">Union</a> legislature. With the state's government in gridlock, Magoffin agreed to resign in exchange for being able to name his successor. Lieutenant Governor <a href="/wiki/Linn_Boyd" title="Linn Boyd">Linn Boyd</a> had died in office, and the Speaker of the Senate, John F. Fisk, was not acceptable to Magoffin as a successor. Fisk resigned as Speaker, and the Senate elected Magoffin's choice, <a href="/wiki/James_Fisher_Robinson" title="James Fisher Robinson">James Fisher Robinson</a> as Speaker. Magoffin then resigned, Robinson was elevated to governor, and Fisk was re-elected as Speaker of the Senate.<sup id="cite_ref-kye603_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kye603-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>All elected officials in Kentucky, including the governor, are subject to impeachment for "any misdemeanors in office". The articles of impeachment must be issued by the House of Representatives and the trial is conducted by the Senate. If convicted, the governor is subject to removal from office and may be prohibited from holding elected office in the state thereafter. Impeached governors may also be subject to trial in the criminal or civil court system. No governor of Kentucky has been impeached.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Compensation_and_residence">Compensation and residence</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Governor_of_Kentucky&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Compensation and residence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:KY_Governors_Mansion.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A pillared, two-story, gray marble building with several flower gardens in front" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/KY_Governors_Mansion.png/530px-KY_Governors_Mansion.png" decoding="async" width="530" height="197" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/KY_Governors_Mansion.png/795px-KY_Governors_Mansion.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/KY_Governors_Mansion.png 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="298" /></a><figcaption>The Governor's Mansion is the official residence of the governor of Kentucky.</figcaption></figure><p>Each iteration of the Kentucky Constitution has provided that the governor receive a salary. Under the first three constitutions, the governor's salary could not be increased or reduced while he was in office; this provision was extended to all public officials in the present constitution.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The governor's salary is set by law, and is equal to $60,000 times the increase in the <a href="/wiki/Consumer_price_index" title="Consumer price index">consumer price index</a> between January 1, 1984, and the beginning of the current calendar year.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2014, the governor's salary was $186,730.<sup id="cite_ref-salary_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-salary-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Kentucky_Governor%27s_Mansion" title="Kentucky Governor's Mansion">Kentucky Governor's Mansion</a> is the official residence of the governor of Kentucky. The present Governor's Mansion, constructed in 1914 and listed on the <a href="/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places" title="National Register of Historic Places">National Register of Historic Places</a> in 1972,<sup id="cite_ref-nrhp1_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nrhp1-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is located at 704 Capitol Avenue in the <a href="/wiki/List_of_capitals_in_the_United_States" title="List of capitals in the United States">state capital</a> of <a href="/wiki/Frankfort,_Kentucky" title="Frankfort, Kentucky">Frankfort</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-mansion_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mansion-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is the second building to serve as the official residence of the governor of Kentucky.<sup id="cite_ref-mansion_84-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mansion-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Kentucky_Revised_Statutes" title="Kentucky Revised Statutes">Kentucky Revised Statutes</a> provide that "[t]he Governor shall have the use of the mansion and the furniture therein and premises, free of rent, but the purchase of furniture for the mansion shall be upon the recommendation of the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet".<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The state's <a href="/wiki/Old_Governor%27s_Mansion_(Frankfort,_Kentucky)" title="Old Governor's Mansion (Frankfort, Kentucky)">first governor's mansion</a> was constructed during the gubernatorial tenure of James Garrard.<sup id="cite_ref-eblen_86-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eblen-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to tradition, future governors Thomas Metcalfe (a stonemason) and <a href="/wiki/Robert_P._Letcher" title="Robert P. Letcher">Robert P. Letcher</a> (who worked at his father's <a href="/wiki/Brickyard" title="Brickyard">brickyard</a>) participated in the construction of the first governor's mansion.<sup id="cite_ref-eblen_86-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eblen-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the construction of the present governor's mansion, the old governor's mansion became the official residence of the lieutenant governor.<sup id="cite_ref-eblen_86-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eblen-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lieutenant governor <a href="/wiki/Steve_Henry" title="Steve Henry">Steve Henry</a> vacated the mansion in 2002 so it could be renovated; following the renovation, it became a state guest house and official entertainment space for the governor.<sup id="cite_ref-eblen_86-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eblen-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For many years, the mansion was the oldest official residence still in use in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-eblen_86-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eblen-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Located at 420 High Street in Frankfort, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.<sup id="cite_ref-nrhp2_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nrhp2-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History_of_the_office">History of the office</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Governor_of_Kentucky&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: History of the office"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Isaac_shelby.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A stern-looking man with thinning, white hair wearing a white shirt and black coat with gold buttons" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Isaac_shelby.jpg/220px-Isaac_shelby.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="266" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Isaac_shelby.jpg/330px-Isaac_shelby.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Isaac_shelby.jpg 2x" data-file-width="379" data-file-height="459" /></a><figcaption>Isaac Shelby, the first and fifth governor of Kentucky</figcaption></figure> <p>Political parties had developed in the United States before Kentucky became a state.<sup id="cite_ref-nhok72_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nhok72-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Because most early Kentuckians were <a href="/wiki/Virginia" title="Virginia">Virginians</a>, they naturally allied with the <a href="/wiki/Democratic-Republican_Party" title="Democratic-Republican Party">Democratic-Republicans</a>, the party of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a> and <a href="/wiki/James_Madison" title="James Madison">James Madison</a>; the latter was a cousin of George Madison, the state's sixth governor.<sup id="cite_ref-nhok72_88-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nhok72-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-kye601_89-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kye601-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Political victories were few and far between for <a href="/wiki/Federalist_Party" title="Federalist Party">Federalists</a> in Kentucky, and none of Kentucky's governors were members of the Federalist Party.<sup id="cite_ref-nhok75_56-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nhok75-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Military service was the most important consideration for voters in Kentucky's early gubernatorial elections.<sup id="cite_ref-tph12_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tph12-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> John Breathitt, elected Kentucky's eleventh governor in 1832, was the first Kentucky governor not to have served in the military.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The Federalist Party had died out nationally by 1820, but new party divisions were soon to form in Kentucky. The <a href="/wiki/Panic_of_1819" title="Panic of 1819">Panic of 1819</a> left many Kentuckians deeply in debt and without a means of repaying their creditors.<sup id="cite_ref-ok84_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ok84-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two factions grew up around the issue of debt relief. Those who favored laws favorable to debtors were dubbed the "Relief Party" and those who favored laws protecting creditors were called the "Anti-Relief Party".<sup id="cite_ref-bethurum174_92-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bethurum174-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While not formal political parties—members of both factions still considered themselves Democratic-Republicans—these factions defined the political dialogue of the 1820s in Kentucky. The debt relief issue began under Gabriel Slaughter, who identified with the Anti-Relief Party, but Slaughter's two immediate successors, <a href="/wiki/John_Adair" title="John Adair">John Adair</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Desha" title="Joseph Desha">Joseph Desha</a>, were members of the Relief Party.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The struggle between the two parties culminated in the <a href="/wiki/Old_Court_%E2%80%93_New_Court_controversy" title="Old Court – New Court controversy">Old Court – New Court controversy</a>, an attempt by the pro-relief legislature to abolish the Court of Appeals because the court overturned some debt relief measures as unconstitutional.<sup id="cite_ref-ok85_94-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ok85-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The controversy ended with the restoration of the Old Court over Desha's veto in late 1826.<sup id="cite_ref-nhok111_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nhok111-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although many Old Court supporters—typically the state's wealthy aristocracy—gravitated to the National Republican Party (later to be called <a href="/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States)" title="Whig Party (United States)">Whigs</a>) that formed in the 1820s, it is inaccurate to assume the Anti-Relief Party as a whole became National Republicans and the Relief Party became Democrats.<sup id="cite_ref-nhok112_96-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nhok112-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The primary factor in determining which party Kentuckians aligned with was their faith in Whig Party founder and native son, <a href="/wiki/Henry_Clay" title="Henry Clay">Henry Clay</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nhok112_96-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nhok112-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From the election of Thomas Metcalfe in 1828 to the expiration of John L. Helm's term in 1851, only one Democrat held the office of governor: John Breathitt, who died a year and a half into his term and was succeeded in office by his lieutenant governor, <a href="/wiki/James_Turner_Morehead_(Kentucky_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="James Turner Morehead (Kentucky politician)">James Turner Morehead</a>, a National Republican.<sup id="cite_ref-nhok113_97-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nhok113-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the collapse of the Whig Party in the early 1850s, many former Whigs joined the <a href="/wiki/Know_Nothing" title="Know Nothing">Know Nothing</a>, or American Party, and <a href="/wiki/Charles_S._Morehead" title="Charles S. Morehead">Charles S. Morehead</a> was elected governor from that party in 1855.<sup id="cite_ref-nhok123_98-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nhok123-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sectarian tensions gripped the state in the lead-up to the Civil War, and while the majority of Kentuckians favored the preservation of the Union above all else, a self-constituted group of Confederate sympathizers met at <a href="/wiki/Russellville,_Kentucky" title="Russellville, Kentucky">Russellville</a> and formed a <a href="/wiki/Confederate_government_of_Kentucky" title="Confederate government of Kentucky">Confederate government for the state</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-speed12_99-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-speed12-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While this provisional government never displaced the elected government in Frankfort, two men served as Confederate governors of Kentucky.<sup id="cite_ref-nhok194_101-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nhok194-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From the close of the Civil War until 1895, Kentuckians elected a series of <a href="/wiki/Bourbon_Democrat" title="Bourbon Democrat">Bourbon Democrats</a> with Confederate sympathies as governor, including two men—<a href="/wiki/James_B._McCreary" title="James B. McCreary">James B. McCreary</a> and <a href="/wiki/Simon_Bolivar_Buckner" title="Simon Bolivar Buckner">Simon Bolivar Buckner</a>—who had served in the <a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_Army" title="Confederate States Army">Confederate States Army</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nhok242_102-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nhok242-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Democratic dominance was broken by <a href="/wiki/William_O%27Connell_Bradley" title="William O'Connell Bradley">William O'Connell Bradley</a>, who was elected the state's first Republican governor in 1895. Bradley's election marked the beginning of thirty years of true, two-party competition for the governorship in the state.<sup id="cite_ref-nhok268_103-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nhok268-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Between 1895 and 1931, five Republicans and six Democrats held the office of governor. Since 1931, however, the Republicans have been unable to preserve this level of parity, and in that period only four of the twenty elected governors have been from the Republican party.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Governor_of_Kentucky&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2023_Kentucky_gubernatorial_election" title="2023 Kentucky gubernatorial election">2023 Kentucky gubernatorial election</a> – most recent gubernatorial election</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Governor_of_Kentucky&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://transparency.ky.gov/search/Pages/SalarySearch.aspx#/salary">"Transparency.ky.gov - Salary Search"</a>. 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A1</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-clarkxxiii-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-clarkxxiii_20-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-clarkxxiii_20-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Clark in <i>Kentucky's Governors</i>, p. xxiii</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-kye380-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-kye380_21-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-kye380_21-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-kye380_21-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-kye380_21-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-kye380_21-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-kye380_21-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Blanchard in <i>The Kentucky Encyclopedia</i>, p. 380</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-york-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-york_22-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-york_22-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-york_22-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">York, p. A12</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-freedman1-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-freedman1_23-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-freedman1_23-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Freedman, p. 1</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Clark in <i>Kentucky's Governors</i>, pp. xv–xvii</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-clarkxviii-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-clarkxviii_25-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-clarkxviii_25-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-clarkxviii_25-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Clark in <i>Kentucky's Governors</i>, p. xviii</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-freedman3-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-freedman3_26-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-freedman3_26-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Freedman, p. 3</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Freedman, pp. 4–5</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-freedman5-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-freedman5_28-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Freedman, p. 5</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-kygovs171-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-kygovs171_29-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Roland in <i>Kentucky's Governors</i>, p. 171</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-freedman8-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-freedman8_30-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-freedman8_30-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Freedman, p. 8</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-freedman6-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-freedman6_31-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Freedman, p. 6</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-freedman7-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-freedman7_32-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Freedman, p. 7</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-fletchernga-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-fletchernga_33-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher". 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192–193</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-nhok194-101"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-nhok194_101-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Harrison in <i>A New History of Kentucky</i>, p. 194</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-nhok242-102"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-nhok242_102-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Harrison in <i>A New History of Kentucky</i>, p. 242</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-nhok268-103"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-nhok268_103-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Harrison in <i>A New History of Kentucky</i>, p. 268</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Works_cited">Works cited</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Governor_of_Kentucky&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Works cited"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> 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colspan="3"><div><i>Italics</i> indicate <a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America">Confederate</a> governors</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Shelby" title="Isaac Shelby">Shelby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Garrard" title="James Garrard">Garrard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Greenup" title="Christopher Greenup">Greenup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Scott_(governor)" title="Charles Scott (governor)">Scott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Shelby" title="Isaac Shelby">Shelby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Madison" title="George Madison">Madison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Slaughter" title="Gabriel Slaughter">Slaughter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Adair" title="John Adair">Adair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Desha" title="Joseph Desha">Desha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Metcalfe_(Kentucky_politician)" title="Thomas Metcalfe (Kentucky politician)">Metcalfe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Breathitt" title="John Breathitt">J. Breathitt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_T._Morehead_(Kentucky_politician)" title="James T. Morehead (Kentucky politician)">J. T. Morehead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Clark_(Kentucky_politician)" title="James Clark (Kentucky politician)">Clark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_A._Wickliffe" title="Charles A. Wickliffe">Wickliffe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_P._Letcher" title="Robert P. Letcher">Letcher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Owsley" title="William Owsley">Owsley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_J._Crittenden" title="John J. Crittenden">Crittenden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_L._Helm" title="John L. Helm">Helm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lazarus_W._Powell" class="mw-redirect" title="Lazarus W. Powell">Powell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_S._Morehead" title="Charles S. Morehead">C. S. Morehead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beriah_Magoffin" title="Beriah Magoffin">Magoffin</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/George_W._Johnson_(governor)" title="George W. Johnson (governor)">G. W. Johnson</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Fisher_Robinson" title="James Fisher Robinson">Robinson</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Richard_Hawes" title="Richard Hawes">Hawes</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_E._Bramlette" title="Thomas E. Bramlette">Bramlette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_L._Helm" title="John L. Helm">Helm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_W._Stevenson" title="John W. Stevenson">Stevenson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Preston_Leslie" title="Preston Leslie">Leslie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_B._McCreary" title="James B. McCreary">McCreary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luke_P._Blackburn" title="Luke P. Blackburn">Blackburn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._Proctor_Knott" title="J. Proctor Knott">Knott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Bolivar_Buckner" title="Simon Bolivar Buckner">Buckner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Y._Brown_(politician,_born_1835)" title="John Y. Brown (politician, born 1835)">Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_O%27Connell_Bradley" title="William O'Connell Bradley">Bradley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_S._Taylor_(Kentucky_politician)" title="William S. Taylor (Kentucky politician)">Taylor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Goebel" title="William Goebel">Goebel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._C._W._Beckham" title="J. C. W. Beckham">Beckham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augustus_E._Willson" title="Augustus E. Willson">Willson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_B._McCreary" title="James B. McCreary">McCreary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augustus_Owsley_Stanley" title="Augustus Owsley Stanley">Stanley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_D._Black" title="James D. Black">Black</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_P._Morrow" title="Edwin P. Morrow">Morrow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_J._Fields" title="William J. Fields">Fields</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flem_D._Sampson" title="Flem D. Sampson">Sampson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruby_Laffoon" title="Ruby Laffoon">Laffoon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Happy_Chandler" title="Happy Chandler">Chandler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keen_Johnson" title="Keen Johnson">K. Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simeon_Willis" title="Simeon Willis">Willis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earle_Clements" title="Earle Clements">Clements</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Wetherby" title="Lawrence Wetherby">Wetherby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Happy_Chandler" title="Happy Chandler">Chandler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bert_Combs" title="Bert Combs">Combs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ned_Breathitt" title="Ned Breathitt">N. Breathitt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louie_Nunn" title="Louie Nunn">Nunn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wendell_Ford" title="Wendell Ford">Ford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julian_Carroll" title="Julian Carroll">Carroll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Y._Brown_Jr." title="John Y. Brown Jr.">Brown Jr.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martha_Layne_Collins" title="Martha Layne Collins">Collins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wallace_Wilkinson" title="Wallace Wilkinson">Wilkinson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brereton_C._Jones" title="Brereton C. Jones">Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_E._Patton" title="Paul E. Patton">Patton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernie_Fletcher" title="Ernie Fletcher">Fletcher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Beshear" title="Steve Beshear">S. Beshear</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matt_Bevin" title="Matt Bevin">Bevin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andy_Beshear" title="Andy Beshear">A. 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title="Tim Walz">Walz</a> (DFL)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Mississippi" title="Governor of Mississippi">MS</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Tate_Reeves" title="Tate Reeves">Reeves</a> (R)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Missouri" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Missouri">MO</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Mike_Parson" title="Mike Parson">Parson</a> (R)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Montana" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Montana">MT</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Greg_Gianforte" title="Greg Gianforte">Gianforte</a> (R)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Nebraska" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Nebraska">NE</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Jim_Pillen" title="Jim Pillen">Pillen</a> (R)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Nevada" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Nevada">NV</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Joe_Lombardo" title="Joe Lombardo">Lombardo</a> (R)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_New_Hampshire" title="Governor of New Hampshire">NH</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Chris_Sununu" title="Chris Sununu">Sununu</a> (R)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_New_Jersey" title="Governor of New Jersey">NJ</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Phil_Murphy" title="Phil Murphy">Murphy</a> (D)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_New_Mexico" title="Governor of New Mexico">NM</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Michelle_Lujan_Grisham" title="Michelle Lujan Grisham">Lujan Grisham</a> (D)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_New_York_(state)" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of New York (state)">NY</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Kathy_Hochul" title="Kathy Hochul">Hochul</a> (D)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_North_Carolina" title="Governor of North Carolina">NC</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Roy_Cooper" title="Roy Cooper">Cooper</a> (D)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_North_Dakota" title="Governor of North Dakota">ND</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Doug_Burgum" title="Doug Burgum">Burgum</a> (R)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Ohio" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Ohio">OH</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Mike_DeWine" title="Mike DeWine">DeWine</a> (R)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Oklahoma" title="Governor of Oklahoma">OK</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Stitt" title="Kevin Stitt">Stitt</a> (R)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Oregon" title="Governor of Oregon">OR</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Tina_Kotek" title="Tina Kotek">Kotek</a> (D)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Pennsylvania" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Pennsylvania">PA</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Josh_Shapiro" title="Josh Shapiro">Shapiro</a> (D)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Rhode_Island" title="Governor of Rhode Island">RI</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Dan_McKee" title="Dan McKee">McKee</a> (D)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_South_Carolina" title="Governor of South Carolina">SC</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Henry_McMaster" title="Henry McMaster">McMaster</a> (R)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_South_Dakota" title="Governor of South Dakota">SD</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Kristi_Noem" title="Kristi Noem">Noem</a> (R)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Tennessee" title="Governor of Tennessee">TN</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Bill_Lee_(Tennessee_politician)" title="Bill Lee (Tennessee politician)">Lee</a> (R)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Texas" title="Governor of Texas">TX</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Greg_Abbott" title="Greg Abbott">Abbott</a> (R)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Utah" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Utah">UT</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Spencer_Cox" title="Spencer Cox">Cox</a> (R)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Vermont" title="Governor of Vermont">VT</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Phil_Scott" title="Phil Scott">Scott</a> (R)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Virginia" title="Governor of Virginia">VA</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Glenn_Youngkin" title="Glenn Youngkin">Youngkin</a> (R)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Washington_(state)" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Washington (state)">WA</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Jay_Inslee" title="Jay Inslee">Inslee</a> (D)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_West_Virginia" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of West Virginia">WV</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Jim_Justice" title="Jim Justice">Justice</a> (R)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Wisconsin" title="Governor of Wisconsin">WI</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Tony_Evers" title="Tony Evers">Evers</a> (D)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Wyoming" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Wyoming">WY</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Mark_Gordon" title="Mark Gordon">Gordon</a> (R)</div></div> <div style="margin-top:1em"><b>Federal districts:</b></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Washington,_D.C." class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Washington, D.C.">DC</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span class="nowrap"><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Muriel_Bowser" title="Muriel Bowser">Bowser</a> (D), Mayor</span></div></div><div class="nocolbreak"><div style="margin-top:1em"><b>Territories:</b></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_American_Samoa" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of American Samoa">AS</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Lemanu_Peleti_Mauga" title="Lemanu Peleti Mauga">Mauga</a> (D)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Guam" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Guam">GU</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Lou_Leon_Guerrero" title="Lou Leon Guerrero">Guerrero</a> (D)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Northern_Mariana_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of Northern Mariana Islands">MP</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#DDDDBB;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Arnold_Palacios" title="Arnold Palacios">Palacios</a> (I)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Puerto_Rico" title="Governor of Puerto Rico">PR</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#161687;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Pedro_Pierluisi" title="Pedro Pierluisi">Pierluisi</a> (PNP/D)</div></div> <div><div style="font-weight:bold; width:2em; display:inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_United_States_Virgin_Islands" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of United States Virgin Islands">VI</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Albert_Bryan_Jr." title="Albert Bryan Jr.">Bryan</a> (D)</div></div></div> </div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow hlist" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><span style="color:#E81B23;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a>: 27 (27 states)</li> <li><span style="color:#3333FF;">▌</span><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a>: 28 (23 states, 4 territories, 1 district)</li> <li><span style="color:#DCDCDC;">▌</span>Independent: 1 (1 territory)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Chief_executives_of_the_United_States" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:US_Chief_Executives" 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href="/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_United_States" title="List of presidents of the United States">list</a></span></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Governor_(United_States)" title="Governor (United States)">State governors</a><br />(<a href="/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_governors" title="List of current United States governors">current list</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Alabama" title="List of governors of Alabama">Alabama</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Alaska" title="List of governors of Alaska">Alaska</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Arizona" title="List of governors of Arizona">Arizona</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Arkansas" title="List of governors of Arkansas">Arkansas</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_California" title="Governor of California">California</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_California" title="List of governors of California">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Colorado" title="Governor of Colorado">Colorado</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Connecticut" title="List of governors of Connecticut">Connecticut</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Delaware" title="List of governors of Delaware">Delaware</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Florida" title="List of governors of Florida">Florida</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Georgia" title="Governor of Georgia">Georgia</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Georgia" title="List of governors of Georgia">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Hawaii" title="Governor of Hawaii">Hawaii</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Hawaii" title="List of governors of Hawaii">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Idaho" title="List of governors of Idaho">Idaho</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Illinois" title="Governor of Illinois">Illinois</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Illinois" title="List of governors of Illinois">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Indiana" title="Governor of Indiana">Indiana</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Indiana" title="List of governors of Indiana">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Iowa" title="List of governors of Iowa">Iowa</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Kansas" title="List of governors of Kansas">Kansas</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Kentucky</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Kentucky" title="List of governors of Kentucky">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Louisiana" title="Governor of Louisiana">Louisiana</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Louisiana" title="List of governors of Louisiana">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Maine" title="Governor of Maine">Maine</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Maine" title="List of governors of Maine">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Maryland" title="Governor of Maryland">Maryland</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Maryland" title="List of governors of Maryland">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Massachusetts" title="Governor of Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Michigan" title="Governor of Michigan">Michigan</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Michigan" title="List of governors of Michigan">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Minnesota" title="Governor of Minnesota">Minnesota</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Minnesota" title="List of governors of Minnesota">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Mississippi" title="Governor of Mississippi">Mississippi</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Mississippi" title="List of governors of Mississippi">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Missouri" title="List of governors of Missouri">Missouri</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Montana" title="List of governors of Montana">Montana</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Nebraska" title="List of governors of Nebraska">Nebraska</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Nevada" title="List of governors of Nevada">Nevada</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_New_Hampshire" title="Governor of New Hampshire">New Hampshire</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_New_Hampshire" title="List of governors of New Hampshire">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_New_Jersey" title="Governor of New Jersey">New Jersey</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_New_Jersey" title="List of governors of New Jersey">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_New_Mexico" title="Governor of New Mexico">New Mexico</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_New_Mexico" title="List of governors of New Mexico">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_New_York" title="Governor of New York">New York</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_New_York" title="List of governors of New York">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_North_Carolina" title="Governor of North Carolina">North Carolina</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_North_Carolina" title="List of governors of North Carolina">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_North_Dakota" title="Governor of North Dakota">North Dakota</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_North_Dakota" title="List of governors of North Dakota">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Ohio" title="List of governors of Ohio">Ohio</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Oklahoma" title="Governor of Oklahoma">Oklahoma</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Oklahoma" title="List of governors of Oklahoma">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Oregon" title="Governor of Oregon">Oregon</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Oregon" title="List of governors of Oregon">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Pennsylvania" title="List of governors of Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Rhode_Island" title="Governor of Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Rhode_Island" title="List of governors of Rhode Island">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_South_Carolina" title="Governor of South Carolina">South Carolina</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_South_Carolina" title="List of governors of South Carolina">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_South_Dakota" title="Governor of South Dakota">South Dakota</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_South_Dakota" title="List of governors of South Dakota">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Tennessee" title="Governor of Tennessee">Tennessee</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Tennessee" title="List of governors of Tennessee">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Texas" title="Governor of Texas">Texas</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Texas" title="List of governors of Texas">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Utah" title="List of governors of Utah">Utah</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Vermont" title="Governor of Vermont">Vermont</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Vermont" title="List of governors of Vermont">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Virginia" title="Governor of Virginia">Virginia</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Virginia" title="List of governors of Virginia">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Washington" title="List of governors of Washington">Washington</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_West_Virginia" title="List of governors of West Virginia">West Virginia</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor_of_Wisconsin" title="Governor of Wisconsin">Wisconsin</a></span> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Wisconsin" title="List of governors of Wisconsin">list</a></span></li></ul></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Wyoming" title="List of governors of Wyoming">Wyoming</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a 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title="List of colonial governors of Cuba">Cuba</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_Dakota_Territory" title="List of governors of Dakota Territory">Dakota Territory</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_governors_of_the_Panama_Canal_Zone" title="List of governors of the Panama Canal Zone">Panama Canal Zone</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Governor-General_of_the_Philippines" title="Governor-General of the Philippines">Philippine Islands</a> (until 1935)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/High_Commissioner_to_the_Philippines" title="High Commissioner to the Philippines">Philippine Commonwealth</a> (until 1946)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/High_Commissioner_of_the_Trust_Territory_of_the_Pacific_Islands" title="High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands">Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_the_Dominican_Republic#Foreign_governors_and_military_commanders_since_1903" title="List of presidents of the Dominican Republic">Santo Domingo</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="23px_Kentucky_statewide_elected_officials" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a 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<ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Kentucky" title="List of newspapers in Kentucky">newspapers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_Kentucky" title="List of radio stations in Kentucky">radio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_television_stations_in_Kentucky" title="List of television stations in Kentucky">TV</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_people_from_Kentucky" title="List of people from Kentucky">People</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Kentucky" class="mw-redirect" title="Religion in Kentucky">Religion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Kentucky_state_symbols" title="List of Kentucky state symbols">Symbols</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Seal_of_Kentucky" title="Seal of Kentucky">seal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Kentucky" title="Flag of Kentucky">flag</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_theaters_in_Kentucky" title="List of theaters in Kentucky">Theater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Tourism_in_Kentucky" title="Category:Tourism in Kentucky">Tourism</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Tourist_attractions_in_Kentucky" title="Category:Tourist attractions in Kentucky">tourist attractions</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transportation_in_Kentucky" title="Transportation in Kentucky">Transportation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Kentucky" title="Category:Kentucky">Category</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Index_of_Kentucky-related_articles" title="Index of Kentucky-related articles">Index</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Society</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abortion_in_Kentucky" title="Abortion in Kentucky">Abortion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Kentucky" title="Culture of Kentucky">Culture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Kentucky" title="Crime in Kentucky">Crime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Kentucky" title="Demographics of Kentucky">Demographics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kentucky#Economy" title="Kentucky">Economy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Education_in_Kentucky" title="Education in Kentucky">Education</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_Kentucky" title="Elections in Kentucky">Elections</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Kentucky" title="Gun laws in Kentucky">Gun laws</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Homelessness_in_Kentucky" class="mw-redirect" title="Homelessness in Kentucky">Homelessness</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Kentucky" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in Kentucky">LGBT rights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kentucky#Politics" title="Kentucky">Politics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sports_in_Kentucky" title="Sports in Kentucky">Sports</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_regions_of_the_United_States#Kentucky" title="List of regions of the United States">Regions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Allegheny_Plateau" title="Allegheny Plateau">Allegheny Plateau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bluegrass_region" title="Bluegrass region">The Bluegrass</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumberland_Mountains" title="Cumberland Mountains">Cumberland Mountains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumberland_Plateau" title="Cumberland Plateau">Cumberland Plateau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Kentucky_Coalfield" title="Eastern Kentucky Coalfield">Eastern Kentucky Coalfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Highland_Rim" title="Highland Rim">Highland Rim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knobs_region" title="Knobs region">The Knobs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Alluvial_Plain" title="Mississippi Alluvial Plain">Mississippi Plain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Kentucky" title="Northern Kentucky">Northern Kentucky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pennyroyal_Plateau" title="Pennyroyal Plateau">Pennyroyal Plateau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jackson_Purchase" title="Jackson Purchase">The Purchase</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ridge-and-Valley_Appalachians" title="Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians">Ridge-and-Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Valley" title="Tennessee Valley">Tennessee Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Western_Coal_Field" title="Western Coal Field">Western Coal Fields</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Kentucky" title="List of cities in Kentucky">25 largest<br /> cities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Louisville,_Kentucky" title="Louisville, Kentucky">Louisville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lexington,_Kentucky" title="Lexington, Kentucky">Lexington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bowling_Green,_Kentucky" title="Bowling Green, Kentucky">Bowling Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Owensboro,_Kentucky" title="Owensboro, Kentucky">Owensboro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Covington,_Kentucky" title="Covington, Kentucky">Covington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richmond,_Kentucky" title="Richmond, Kentucky">Richmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgetown,_Kentucky" title="Georgetown, Kentucky">Georgetown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Florence,_Kentucky" title="Florence, Kentucky">Florence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hopkinsville,_Kentucky" title="Hopkinsville, Kentucky">Hopkinsville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholasville,_Kentucky" title="Nicholasville, Kentucky">Nicholasville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabethtown,_Kentucky" title="Elizabethtown, Kentucky">Elizabethtown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Independence,_Kentucky" title="Independence, Kentucky">Independence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henderson,_Kentucky" title="Henderson, Kentucky">Henderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frankfort,_Kentucky" title="Frankfort, Kentucky">Frankfort</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeffersontown,_Kentucky" title="Jeffersontown, Kentucky">Jeffersontown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paducah,_Kentucky" title="Paducah, Kentucky">Paducah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radcliff,_Kentucky" title="Radcliff, Kentucky">Radcliff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashland,_Kentucky" title="Ashland, Kentucky">Ashland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Murray,_Kentucky" title="Murray, Kentucky">Murray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erlanger,_Kentucky" title="Erlanger, Kentucky">Erlanger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winchester,_Kentucky" title="Winchester, Kentucky">Winchester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madisonville,_Kentucky" title="Madisonville, Kentucky">Madisonville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mount_Washington,_Kentucky" title="Mount Washington, Kentucky">Mount Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St._Matthews,_Kentucky" title="St. Matthews, Kentucky">St. Matthews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danville,_Kentucky" title="Danville, Kentucky">Danville</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area" title="Metropolitan statistical area">Metropolitan<br />areas</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Huntington%E2%80%93Ashland_metropolitan_area" title="Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area">Ashland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bowling_Green_metropolitan_area,_Kentucky" title="Bowling Green metropolitan area, Kentucky">Bowling Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clarksville_metropolitan_area" title="Clarksville metropolitan area">Clarksville, TN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabethtown_metropolitan_area" title="Elizabethtown metropolitan area">Elizabethtown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evansville_metropolitan_area" title="Evansville metropolitan area">Evansville, IN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lexington%E2%80%93Fayette_metropolitan_area" title="Lexington–Fayette metropolitan area">Lexington–Fayette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louisville_metropolitan_area" title="Louisville metropolitan area">Louisville/Jefferson County</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cincinnati_metropolitan_area" title="Cincinnati metropolitan area">Northern Kentucky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Owensboro_metropolitan_area" title="Owensboro metropolitan area">Owensboro</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Kentucky" title="List of counties in Kentucky">Counties</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adair_County,_Kentucky" title="Adair County, Kentucky">Adair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allen_County,_Kentucky" title="Allen County, Kentucky">Allen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anderson_County,_Kentucky" title="Anderson County, Kentucky">Anderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ballard_County,_Kentucky" title="Ballard County, Kentucky">Ballard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barren_County,_Kentucky" title="Barren County, Kentucky">Barren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bath_County,_Kentucky" title="Bath County, Kentucky">Bath</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bell_County,_Kentucky" title="Bell County, Kentucky">Bell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boone_County,_Kentucky" title="Boone County, Kentucky">Boone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bourbon_County,_Kentucky" title="Bourbon County, Kentucky">Bourbon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boyd_County,_Kentucky" title="Boyd County, Kentucky">Boyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boyle_County,_Kentucky" title="Boyle County, Kentucky">Boyle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bracken_County,_Kentucky" title="Bracken County, Kentucky">Bracken</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Breathitt_County,_Kentucky" title="Breathitt County, Kentucky">Breathitt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Breckinridge_County,_Kentucky" title="Breckinridge County, Kentucky">Breckinridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bullitt_County,_Kentucky" title="Bullitt County, Kentucky">Bullitt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Butler_County,_Kentucky" title="Butler County, Kentucky">Butler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Caldwell_County,_Kentucky" title="Caldwell County, Kentucky">Caldwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calloway_County,_Kentucky" title="Calloway County, Kentucky">Calloway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Campbell_County,_Kentucky" title="Campbell County, Kentucky">Campbell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlisle_County,_Kentucky" title="Carlisle County, Kentucky">Carlisle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carroll_County,_Kentucky" title="Carroll County, Kentucky">Carroll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carter_County,_Kentucky" title="Carter County, Kentucky">Carter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Casey_County,_Kentucky" title="Casey County, Kentucky">Casey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_County,_Kentucky" title="Christian County, Kentucky">Christian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clark_County,_Kentucky" title="Clark County, Kentucky">Clark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clay_County,_Kentucky" title="Clay County, Kentucky">Clay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clinton_County,_Kentucky" title="Clinton County, Kentucky">Clinton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crittenden_County,_Kentucky" title="Crittenden County, Kentucky">Crittenden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumberland_County,_Kentucky" title="Cumberland County, Kentucky">Cumberland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daviess_County,_Kentucky" title="Daviess County, Kentucky">Daviess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmonson_County,_Kentucky" title="Edmonson County, Kentucky">Edmonson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elliott_County,_Kentucky" title="Elliott County, Kentucky">Elliott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Estill_County,_Kentucky" title="Estill County, Kentucky">Estill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fayette_County,_Kentucky" 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Kentucky">Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jefferson_County,_Kentucky" title="Jefferson County, Kentucky">Jefferson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessamine_County,_Kentucky" title="Jessamine County, Kentucky">Jessamine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnson_County,_Kentucky" title="Johnson County, Kentucky">Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenton_County,_Kentucky" title="Kenton County, Kentucky">Kenton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knott_County,_Kentucky" title="Knott County, Kentucky">Knott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knox_County,_Kentucky" title="Knox County, Kentucky">Knox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LaRue_County,_Kentucky" title="LaRue County, Kentucky">LaRue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laurel_County,_Kentucky" title="Laurel County, Kentucky">Laurel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_County,_Kentucky" title="Lawrence County, Kentucky">Lawrence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lee_County,_Kentucky" title="Lee County, Kentucky">Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leslie_County,_Kentucky" title="Leslie County, Kentucky">Leslie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Letcher_County,_Kentucky" title="Letcher County, Kentucky">Letcher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewis_County,_Kentucky" title="Lewis County, Kentucky">Lewis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_County,_Kentucky" title="Lincoln County, Kentucky">Lincoln</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Livingston_County,_Kentucky" title="Livingston County, Kentucky">Livingston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Logan_County,_Kentucky" title="Logan County, Kentucky">Logan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyon_County,_Kentucky" title="Lyon County, Kentucky">Lyon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madison_County,_Kentucky" title="Madison County, Kentucky">Madison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magoffin_County,_Kentucky" title="Magoffin County, Kentucky">Magoffin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marion_County,_Kentucky" title="Marion County, Kentucky">Marion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marshall_County,_Kentucky" title="Marshall County, Kentucky">Marshall</a></li> <li><a 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Kentucky">Spencer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taylor_County,_Kentucky" title="Taylor County, Kentucky">Taylor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Todd_County,_Kentucky" title="Todd County, Kentucky">Todd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trigg_County,_Kentucky" title="Trigg County, Kentucky">Trigg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trimble_County,_Kentucky" title="Trimble County, Kentucky">Trimble</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Union_County,_Kentucky" title="Union County, Kentucky">Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warren_County,_Kentucky" title="Warren County, Kentucky">Warren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Washington_County,_Kentucky" title="Washington County, Kentucky">Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wayne_County,_Kentucky" title="Wayne County, Kentucky">Wayne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Webster_County,_Kentucky" title="Webster County, Kentucky">Webster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Whitley_County,_Kentucky" title="Whitley County, Kentucky">Whitley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wolfe_County,_Kentucky" 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