The Political Graveyard: Kentucky: Secretaries of State

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 Joseph 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 Guy Cromwell 1924-28 Ella Lewis 1928-32 Charles D. Arnett 1936-39 Charles K. O'Connell 194? John Y. Brown III 1996-2000 Trey Grayson 2004

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1823 Sep 1: Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, died in office.

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.

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."
Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. It is the Internet's most comprehensive source for American political biography, listing 192,291 politicians, living and dead.

The coverage of the site includes certain federal officials, state officeholders and candidates in all 50 states, state and national political party officials, federal and state judges, and mayors (including candidates at election for mayor) of qualifying cities.
The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.
The official URL for this page is: http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/ofc/sos.html
Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.
If you are searching for a specific individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.
More information: FAQ; privacy policy; cemetery links.
If you find any error or omission in The Political Graveyard, or if you have information to share, please see the biographical checklist and submission guidelines.

Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — Mailing address: P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — The site is currently hosted by Hostmonster, but we remain grateful for a decade-plus with our former web host, Paul Haas, of Ypsilanti, Michigan. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 24, 2009.

Copyright notice: Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2009 Lawrence Kestenbaum. This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.