List of Governors of Kentucky

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This is a complete list of Governors of Kentucky:

Please note that Kentucky also had two Confederate governors during the American Civil War - George W. Johnson and Richard Hawes.

#	Governor	Party	Term
1	Isaac Shelby	Democratic-Republican	1792–1796
2	James Garrard	Democratic-Republican	1796–1804
3	Christopher Greenup	Democratic-Republican	1804–1808
4	Charles Scott	Democratic-Republican	1808–1812
5	Isaac Shelby	Democratic-Republican	1812–1816
6	George Madison	Democratic-Republican	1816–1816
7	Gabriel Slaughter	Democratic-Republican	1816–1820
8	John Adair	Democratic-Republican	1820–1824
9	Joseph Desha	Democratic-Republican	1824–1828
10	Thomas Metcalfe	National Republican	1828–1832
11	John Breathitt	Democratic	1832–1834
12	James T. Morehead	National Republican	1834–1836
13	James Clark	Whig	1836–1839
14	Charles A. Wickliffe	Whig	1839–1840
15	Robert P. Letcher	Whig	1840–1844
16	William Owsley	Whig	1844–1848
17	John J. Crittenden	Whig	1848–1850
18	John L. Helm	Whig	1850–1851
19	Lazarus W. Powell	Democratic	1851–1855
20	Charles S. Morehead	Know-Nothing Party	1855–1859
21	Beriah Magoffin	Democratic	1859–1862
22	James F. Robinson	National Union	1862–1863
23	Thomas E. Bramlette	National Union	1863–1867
24	John L. Helm	Democratic	1867–1867
25	John W. Stevenson	Democratic	1867–1871
26	Preston H. Leslie	Democratic	1871–1875
27	James B. McCreary	Democratic	1875–1879
28	Luke P. Blackburn	Democratic	1879–1883
29	J. Proctor Knott	Democratic	1883–1887
30	Simon B. Buckner	Democratic	1887–1891
31	John Young Brown	Democratic	1891–1895
32	William O. Bradley	Republican	1895–1899
33	William S. Taylor	Republican	1899–1900
34	William Goebel	Democratic	1900–1900
35	J. C. W. Beckham	Democratic	1900–1907
36	Augustus E. Willson	Republican	1907–1911
37	James B. McCreary	Democratic	1911–1915
38	Augustus O. Stanley	Democratic	1915–1919
39	James D. Black	Democratic	1919–1919
40	Edwin P. Morrow	Republican	1919–1923
41	William J. Fields	Democratic	1923–1927
42	Flem D. Sampson	Republican	1927–1931
43	Ruby Laffoon	Democratic	1931–1935
44	A. B. "Happy" Chandler I	Democratic	1935–1939
45	Keen Johnson	Democratic	1939–1943
46	Simeon S. Willis	Republican	1943–1947
47	Earle C. Clements	Democratic	1947–1950
48	Lawrence W. Wetherby	Democratic	1950–1955
49	A. B. "Happy" Chandler I	Democratic	1955–1959
50	Bert T. Combs	Democratic	1959–1963
51	Edward T. Breathitt	Democratic	1963–1967
52	Louie B. Nunn	Republican	1967–1971
53	Wendell H. Ford	Democratic	1971–1974
54	Julian M. Carroll	Democratic	1974–1979
55	John Y. Brown, Jr.	Democratic	1979–1983
56	Martha Layne Collins	Democratic	1983–1987
57	Wallace G. Wilkinson	Democratic	1987–1991
58	Brereton Jones	Democratic	1991–1995
59	Paul E. Patton	Democratic	1995–2003
60	Ernie Fletcher	Republican	2003—

Governors of Kentucky

Shelby • Garrard • Greenup • Scott • Shelby • Madison • Slaughter • Adair • Desha • Metcalfe • J. Breathitt • J. Morehead • Clark • Wickliffe • Letcher • Owsley • Crittenden • Helm • Powell • C. Morehead • Magoffin • Robinson • Bramlette • Helm • Stevenson • Leslie • McCreary • Blackburn • Knott • Buckner • Brown • Bradley • Taylor • Goebel • Beckham • Willson • McCreary • Stanley • Black • Morrow • Fields • Sampson • Laffoon • Chandler • Johnson • Willis • Clements • Wetherby • Chandler • Combs • E. Breathitt • Nunn • Ford • Carroll • Brown Jr. • Collins • Wilkinson • Jones • Patton • Fletcher Kentucky also had two Confederate Governors: George W. Johnson and Richard Hawes.

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