Kentucky
State Governors
1792-1796 Isaac Shelby
1796-1804 James Garrard
1804-1808 Christopher Greenup
1808-1812 Charles Scott
1812-1816 Isaac Shelby
1816-1816 George Madison
1816-1820 Gabriel Slaughter
1820-1824 John Adair
1824-1828 Joseph Desha
1828-1832 Thomas Metcalfe
1832-1834 John Breathitt
1834-1836 James Turner Morehead
1836-1839 James Clark
1839-1840 Charles Anderson Wickliffe
1840-1844 Robert P. Letcher
1844-1848 William Owsley
1848-1850 John Jordan Crittenden
1850-1851 John L. Helm
1851-1855 Lazarus Powell
1855-1859 Charles Slaughter Morehead
1859-1862 Beriah Magoffin
1862-1863 James F. Robinson
1863-1867 Thomas E. Bramlette
1867-1867 John L. Helm
1867-1871 John W. Stevenson
1871-1875 Preston H. Leslie
1875-1879 James B. McCreary
1879-1883 Luke P. Blackburn
1883-1887 James Proctor Knott
1887-1891 Simon Bolivar Buckner
1891-1895 John Young Brown
1895-1899 William O. Bradley
1899-1900 William S. Taylor
1900-1900 William Goebel
1900-1907 J.C.W. Beckham
1907-1911 Augustus Willson
1911-1915 James B. McCreary
1915-1919 Augustus Stanley
1919-1919 James D. Black
1919-1923 Edwin P. Morrow
1923-1927 William Jason Fields
1927-1931 Flem Sampson
1931-1935 Ruby Laffoon
1935-1939 A.B. "Happy" Chandler
1939-1943 Keen Johnson
1943-1947 Simeon Willis
1947-1950 Earle C. Clements
1950-1955 Lawrence Wetherby
1955-1959 A.B. "Happy" Chandler
1959-1963 Bert T.Combs
1963-1967 Edward "Ned" Breathitt
1967-1971 Louie B. Nunn
1971-1974 Wendell Ford
1974-1979 Julian Carroll
1979-1983 John Y. Brown, Jr.
1983-1987 Martha Layne Collins
1987-1991 Wallace Wilkinson
1991-1995 Brereton C.Jones
1995-2003 Paul E. Patton
2003 now Ernie Fletcher
Reference
KY Department for Libraries and Archives, Kentucky's Governors
