The Political Graveyard: Kentucky: Secretaries of State

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Kentucky: Secretaries of State

Kentucky Secretaries of State, 1792-2004 (May be incomplete!)
James Brown 1792-96 Harry Toulmin 1796-1804 John Rowan 1804-08 Jesse Bledsoe 1808-12 Martin D. Hardin 1812-16 Charles S. Todd 1816 John Pope 1816-19 Oliver G. Waggoner 1819-20 Cabell Breckinridge 1820-23 Thomas B. Monroe 1823-24 William T. Barry 1824-25 James C. Pickett 1825-28 George Robertson 1828 Thomas T. Crittenden 1828-32 John F. McCurdy 1832 Lewis Sanders, Jr. 1832-34 John J. Crittenden 1834-35 William Owsley 1835-36 Austin P. Cox 1836 James M. Bullock 1836-40 James Harlan 1840-44 Benjamin Hardin 1844-46 George B. Kinkead 1846-47 William D. Reed 1847-48 John W. Finnell 1848-51 David Meriwether 1851-52 James P. Metcalfe 1852-54 Grant Green 1854-55 Mason Brown 1855-59 Thomas B. Monroe, Jr. 1859-61 Nathaniel Gaither 1861-62 Daniel Carmichael Wickliffe 1862-63 E. L. Van Winkle 1863-66 John S. Van Winkle 1866-67 Samuel B. Churchill 1867-71 Andrew J. James 1871-72 George W. Craddock 1872-75 J. Stoddard Johnston 1875-79 Samuel B. Churchill 1879-80 James W. Blackburn 1880-83 James A. McKenzie 1883-87 George Madison Adams 1887-91 John W. Headley 1891-96 Charles Finley 1896-1900 Caleb Powers 1900 C. B. Hill 1900-04 H. V. McChesney 1904-08 Ben L. Bruner 1908-12 C. F. Crecelius 1912-16 James P. Lewis 1916-20 Fred A. Vaughan 1920-24 Emma G. Cromwell 1924-28 Ella Lewis 1928-32 Charles D. Arnett 1936-39 Charles K. O'Connell 1940 John Y. Brown III 1996-2000 Trey Grayson 2004

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1823 Sep 1: Cabell Breckinridge, died in office.

1895: Charles Finley, elected.

1935: Charles D. Arnett, elected.

1955 Nov 8: Thelma L. Stovall (Dem), elected; Edwin E. Freshney (Rep), defeated; Andrew Johnson (Prohibition), defeated.

1975 May 27: Drexell R. Davis (Dem), nominated; J. P. Sullivan (Dem), defeated in primary; Thelma Conway (Dem), defeated in primary; Ray Adkins (Dem), defeated in primary; Charles W. Harris (Dem), defeated in primary.

1975 Nov 4: Drexell R. Davis (Dem), elected; Huda Jones (Rep), defeated.

1979 Nov 6: Frances J. Mills (Dem), elected; Rowe Harper (Rep), defeated.

1983 May 24: Ann E. Ross (Rep), nominated; William D. Blair (Rep), defeated in primary.

1983 Nov 8: Drexell R. Davis (Dem), elected; Ann E. Ross (Rep), defeated.

1987 Nov 3: Bremer Ehrler (Dem), elected; Ronald L. Sanders (Rep), defeated.

1995 May 23: Ed Logsdon (Dem), defeated in primary.

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