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Kentucky: Lieutenant Governors

Lieutenant Governors of Kentucky, 1800-2012 (May be incomplete!)
Alexander Scott Bullitt 1800-04 John Caldwell 1804 Thomas Posey 1806-08 Gabriel Slaughter 1808-12 Richard Hickman 1812-16 Gabriel Slaughter 1816 William T. Barry 1820-24 Robert B. McAfee 1824-28 John Breathitt 1828-32 James T. Morehead 1832-34 Charles A. Wickliffe 1836-39 Manlius Valerius Thomson 1840-44 Archibald Dixon 1844-48 John Larue Helm 1848-50 John B. Thompson 1852-53 James G. Hardy 1855-56 Linn Boyd 1859 Richard Taylor Jacob 1863-64 John W. Stevenson 1867 John G. Carlisle 1871-75 John C. Underwood 1875-79 James E. Cantrill 1879-83 James R. Hindman 1883-87 James William Bryan 1887-91 Mitchell Cary Alford 1891-95 William Jackson Worthington 1895-99 John Marshall 1899-1900 J. C. W. Beckham 1900 William P. Thorne 1903-07 William H. Cox 1907-11 Edward J. McDermott 1911-15 James D. Black 1915-19 S. Thruston Ballard 1919-23 Henry H. Denhardt 1923-27 James Breathitt, Jr. 1927-31 Albert B. Chandler 1931-35 Keen Johnson 1935-39 Rodes K. Myers 1939-43 Kenneth H. Tuggle 1943-47 Lawrence W. Wetherby 1947-50 Emerson Beauchamp 1951-55 Harry Lee Waterfield 1955-59 Wilson W. Wyatt 1959-63 Harry Lee Waterfield 1963-67 Wendell H. Ford 1967-71 John B. Breckinridge 1971 Julian M. Carroll 1971-74 Thelma L. Stovall 1975-79 Martha Layne Collins 1979-83 Steve Beshear 1983-87 Brereton C. Jones 1987-91 Paul E. Patton 1991-95 Steve Henry 1995- Jerry E. Abramson 2011-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1804: John Caldwell, died in office.
  • 1828: Joseph R. Underwood, defeated.
  • 1836: Elijah Hise (Dem), defeated.
  • 1851: Robert Nelson Wickliffe (Dem), defeated.
  • 1856 Jul 16: James G. Hardy, died in office.
  • 1859 Dec 17: Linn Boyd, died in office.
  • 1867: Harrison Taylor, defeated.
  • 1871: George M. Thomas, defeated.
  • 1875: Robert Boyd, defeated.
  • 1879: Osmer Sage Deming, defeated.
  • 1907: William H. Cox (Rep), elected.
  • 1939: Jouett Ross Todd (Rep), defeated.
  • 1943: William H. May (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1943: Kenneth H. Tuggle (Rep), elected.
  • 1947: Charles H. Gartrell (Dem), defeated in primary; William H. May (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1955 Nov 8: Harry Lee Waterfield (Dem), elected; Joe Eaton (Rep), defeated; C. L. Abel (Prohibition), defeated.
  • 1963: John B. Breckinridge, defeated.
  • 1975 May 27: Thelma L. Stovall (Dem), nominated; Wayne T. Rutherford (Dem), defeated in primary; Thomas M. Ward (Dem), defeated in primary; William L. Sullivan (Dem), defeated in primary; Ewart W. Johnson (Dem), defeated in primary; Ed W. Hancock (Dem), defeated in primary; Ronald E. Butler (Dem), defeated in primary; James O. Day (Dem), defeated in primary; Charles A. Sweeney, Sr. (Dem), defeated in primary; Louis S. Grace (Dem), defeated in primary; Lyle L. Willis (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1975 May 27: Shirley W. Palmer-Ball (Rep), nominated; Bob Bersky (Rep), defeated in primary.
  • 1975 Nov 4: Thelma L. Stovall (Dem), elected; Shirley W. Palmer-Ball (Rep), defeated.
  • 1979 May 29: Martha Layne Collins (Dem), nominated; William M. Cox (Dem), defeated in primary; Todd Hollenbach (Dem), defeated in primary; Joseph W. Prather (Dem), defeated in primary; Richard H. Lewis (Dem), defeated in primary; Jim Vernon (Dem), defeated in primary; Charley T. Rowland (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1979 May 29: Harold Rogers (Rep), nominated; Granville Thomas (Rep), defeated in primary; Bob Bersky (Rep), defeated in primary.
  • 1979 Nov 6: Martha Layne Collins (Dem), elected; Harold Rogers (Rep), defeated.
  • 1983 May 24: Alben W. Barkley II (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1983 May 24: Eugene P. Stuart (Rep), nominated; Nicholas D. McCubbin (Rep), defeated in primary; Tommy Klein (Rep), defeated in primary.
  • 1983 Nov 8: Steve Beshear (Dem), elected; Eugene P. Stuart (Rep), defeated; Don Wiggins, Jr. (Consumers Lobby), defeated.
  • 1987 May 26: Brereton C. Jones (Dem), nominated; David L. Armstrong (Dem), defeated in primary; Paul E. Patton (Dem), defeated in primary; David E. Boswell (Dem), defeated in primary; Alice McDonald (Dem), defeated in primary; Wilton B. Cupp (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1987 May 26: Lawrence R. Webster (Rep), nominated; Tommy Klein (Rep), defeated in primary.
  • 1987 Nov 3: Brereton C. Jones (Dem), elected; Lawrence R. Webster (Rep), defeated.
  • 1991 May 28: Tommy Klein (Rep), defeated in primary.
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