Former Governors - Kentucky

Governor's Name State Time in Office Party
Gov. Matt Bevin Kentucky 2015 - 2019
Republican
Gov. Steven L. Beshear Kentucky 2007 - 2015
Democratic
Gov. Ernie Fletcher Kentucky 2003 - 2007
Republican
Gov. Paul E. Patton Kentucky 1995 - 2003
Democratic
Gov. Brereton C. Jones Kentucky 1991 - 1995
Democratic
Gov. Wallace G. Wilkinson Kentucky 1987 - 1991
Democratic
Gov. Martha Layne Collins Kentucky 1983 - 1987
Democratic
Gov. John Y. Brown Jr. Kentucky 1979 - 1983
Democratic
Gov. Julian Morton Carroll Kentucky 1974 - 1979
Democratic
Gov. Wendell Hampton Ford Kentucky 1971 - 1974
Democratic
Gov. Louie Broady Nunn Kentucky 1967 - 1971
Republican
Gov. Edward Thompson Breathitt Kentucky 1963 - 1967
Democratic
Gov. Bert Thomas Combs Kentucky 1959 - 1963
Democratic
Gov. Albert Benjamin Chandler Kentucky 1955 - 1959
1935 - 1939
Democratic
Gov. Lawrence Winchester Wetherby Kentucky 1950 - 1955
Democratic
Gov. Earle Chester Clements Kentucky 1947 - 1950
Democratic
Gov. Simeon Slavens Willis Kentucky 1943 - 1947
Republican
Gov. Keen Johnson Kentucky 1939 - 1943
Democratic
Gov. Ruby Laffoon Kentucky 1931 - 1935
Democratic
Gov. Flem Davis Sampson Kentucky 1927 - 1931
Republican
Gov. William Jason Fields Kentucky 1923 - 1927
Democratic
Gov. Edwin Porch Morrow Kentucky 1919 - 1923
Republican
Gov. James Dixon Black Kentucky 1919 - 1919
Democratic
Gov. Augustus Owsley Stanley Kentucky 1915 - 1919
Democratic
Gov. James Bennett McCreary Kentucky 1911 - 1915
1875 - 1879
Democratic
Gov. Augustus Everett Willson Kentucky 1907 - 1911
Republican
Gov. John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham Kentucky 1900 - 1907
Democratic
Gov. William Goebel Kentucky 1900 - 1900
Democratic
Gov. William Sylvester Taylor Kentucky 1899 - 1900
Republican
Gov. William O. Bradley Kentucky 1895 - 1899
Republican
Gov. John Young Brown Sr. Kentucky 1891 - 1895
Democratic
Gov. Simon Bolivar Buckner Kentucky 1887 - 1891
Democratic
Gov. James Proctor Knott Kentucky 1883 - 1887
Democratic
Gov. Luke Pryor Blackburn Kentucky 1879 - 1883
Democratic
Gov. Preston Hopkins Leslie Kentucky 1871 - 1875
Democratic
Gov. John White Stevenson Kentucky 1867 - 1871
Democratic
Gov. John Larue Helm Kentucky 1867 - 1867
1850 - 1851
Whig
Gov. Thomas Elliott Bramlette Kentucky 1863 - 1867
Democratic
Gov. James Fisher Robinson Kentucky 1862 - 1863
Democratic
Gov. Beriah Magoffin Kentucky 1859 - 1862
Democratic
Gov. Charles Slaughter Morehead Kentucky 1855 - 1859
American
Gov. Lazarus Whitehead Powell Kentucky 1851 - 1855
Democratic
Gov. John Jordan Crittenden Kentucky 1848 - 1850
Whig
Gov. William Owsley Kentucky 1844 - 1848
Whig
Gov. Robert Perkins Letcher Kentucky 1840 - 1844
Whig
Gov. Charles Anderson Wickliffe Kentucky 1839 - 1840
Whig
Gov. James Clark Kentucky 1836 - 1839
Whig
Gov. James Turner Morehead Kentucky 1834 - 1836
Whig
Gov. John Breathitt Kentucky 1832 - 1834
Jacksonian Democratic
Gov. Thomas Metcalfe Kentucky 1828 - 1832
Whig
Gov. Joseph Desha Kentucky 1824 - 1828
Jeffersonian-Republican
Gov. John Adair Kentucky 1820 - 1824
Democratic-Republican
Gov. Gabriel Slaughter Kentucky 1816 - 1820
Jeffersonian-Republican
Gov. George Madison Kentucky 1816 - 1816
Jeffersonian-Republican
Gov. Charles Scott Kentucky 1808 - 1812
Jeffersonian-Republican
Gov. Christopher Greenup Kentucky 1804 - 1808
Jeffersonian-Republican
Gov. James Garrard Kentucky 1796 - 1804
Jeffersonian-Republican
Gov. Isaac Shelby Kentucky 1792 - 1796
Jeffersonian-Republican

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