List of Kentucky Governors

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Andy Beshear, Kentucky Governor (2020)

This list includes all of the state governors in the U.S. state of Kentucky since the state was founded in 1792.

Surname Term of office annotation
Isaac Shelby 1792-1796 Democratic Republican
James Garrard 1796-1804 Democratic Republican
Christopher Greenup 1804-1808 Democratic Republican
Charles Scott 1808-1812 Democratic Republican
Isaac Shelby 1812-1816 Democratic Republican
George Madison 1816-1816 Democratic Republican
Gabriel Slaughter 1816-1820 Democratic Republican
John Adair 1820-1824 Democratic Republican
Joseph Desha 1824-1828 Democratic Republican
Thomas Metcalfe 1828-1832 National Republicans
John Breathitt 1832-1834 democrat
James Turner Morehead 1834-1836 National Republicans
James Clark 1836-1839 Whig
Charles Anderson Wickliffe 1839-1840 Whig
Robert Perkins Letcher 1840-1844 Whig
William Owsley 1844-1848 Whig
John Jordan Crittenden 1848-1850 Whig
John Larue helmet 1850-1851 Whig
Lazarus Whitehead Powell 1851-1855 democrat
Charles Slaughter Morehead 1855-1859 Know-nothing party
Beriah Magoffin 1859-1862 democrat
James Fisher Robinson 1862-1863 unionist
Thomas Elliott Bramlette 1863-1867 unionist
John Larue helmet 1867-1867 democrat
John White Stevenson 1867-1871 democrat
Preston Hopkins Leslie 1871-1875 democrat
James Bennett McCreary 1875-1879 democrat
Luke Pryor Blackburn 1879-1883 democrat
James Proctor Knott 1883-1887 democrat
Simon Bolivar Buckner 1887-1891 democrat
John Young Brown 1891-1895 democrat
William O'Connell Bradley 1895-1899 republican
William Sylvester Taylor 1899-1900 republican
William J. Goebel 1900-1900 democrat
John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham 1900-1907 democrat
Augustus Everett Willson 1907-1911 republican
James Bennett McCreary 1911-1915 democrat
Augustus Owsley Stanley 1915-1919 democrat
James Dixon Black 1919 democrat
Edwin Porch Morrow 1919-1923 republican
William Jason Fields 1923-1927 democrat
Flem Davis Sampson 1927-1931 republican
Ruby Laffoon 1931-1935 democrat
Albert Benjamin Chandler 1935-1939 democrat
Keen Johnson 1939-1943 democrat
Simeon Slavens Willis 1943-1947 republican
Earle Chester Clements 1947-1950 democrat
Lawrence Winchester Wetherby 1950-1955 democrat
Albert Benjamin Chandler 1955-1959 democrat
Bertram Thomas Combs 1959-1963 democrat
Edward Thompson Breathitt 1963-1967 democrat
Louie Broady Nunn 1967-1971 republican
Wendell Hampton Ford 1971-1974 democrat
Julian Morton Carroll 1974-1979 democrat
John Young Brown 1979-1983 democrat
Martha Layne Collins 1983-1987 democrat
Wallace Glenn Wilkinson 1987-1991 democrat
Brereton Chandler Jones 1991-1995 democrat
Paul E. Patton 1995-2003 democrat
Ernest Lee Fletcher 2003-2007 republican
Steven Lynn Beshear 2007-2015 democrat
Matthew Griswold Bevin 2015-2019 republican
Andrew Graham Beshear since 2019 democrat

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