The Official Web Site of the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Gubernatorial History

Chronological Listing

Listing by Last Name

1792-1796 (Shelby)
1796-1804 (Garrard)
1804-1808 (Greenup)
1808-1812 (Scott)
1812-1816 (Shelby)
1816 (Madison)
1816-1820 (Slaughter)
1820-1824 (Adair)
1824-1828 (Desha)
1828-1832 (Metcalfe)
1832-1834 (Breathitt)
1834-1836 (Morehead)
1836-1839 (Clark)
1839-1840 (Wickliffe)
1840-1844 (Letcher)
1844-1848 (Owsley)
1848-1850 (Crittenden)
1850-1851 (Helm)
1851-1855 (Powell)
1855-1859 (Morehead)
1859-1862 (Magoffin)
1862-1863 (Robinson)
1863-1867 (Bramlette)
1867 (Helm)
1867-1871 (Stevenson)
1871-1875 (Leslie)
1875-1879 (McCreary)
1879-1883 (Blackburn)
1883-1887 (Knott)
1887-1891 (Buckner)
1891-1895 (Brown)
1895-1899 (Bradley)
1899-1900 (Taylor)
1900 (Goebel)
1900-1907 (Beckham)
1907-1911 (Willson)
1911-1915 (McCreary)
1915-1919 (Stanley)
1919 (Black)
1919-1923 (Morrow)
1923-1927 (Fields)
1927-1931 (Sampson)
1931-1935 (Laffoon)
1935-1939 (Chandler)
1939-1943 (Johnson)
1943-1947 (Willis)
1947-1950 (Clements)
1950-1955 (Wetherby)
1955-1959 (Chandler)
1959-1963 (Combs)
1963-1967 (Breathitt)
1967-1971 (Nunn)
1971-1974 (Ford)
1974-1979 (Carroll)
1979-1983 (Brown)
1983-1987 (Collins)
1987-1991 (Wilkinson)
1991-1995 (Jones)
1995-2003 (Patton)
2003-2007 (Fletcher)		 Adair, John
Beckham, J.C.W.
Black, James D.
Blackburn, Luke P.
Bradley, William O.
Bramlette, Thomas E.
Breathitt, Edward "Ned"
Breathitt, John
Brown, John Young
Brown, John Y., Jr.
Buckner, Simon Bolivar
Carroll, Julian
Chandler, A.B. "Happy"
Clark, James
Clements, Earle C.
Collins, Martha Layne
Combs, Bert T.
Crittenden, John Jordan
Desha, Joseph
Fields, William Jason
Fletcher, Ernie Ford, Wendell
Garrard, James
Goebel, William
Greenup, Christopher
Helm, John L.
Johnson, Keen
Jones, Brereton C.
Knott, James Proctor
Laffoon, Ruby
Leslie, Preston H.
Letcher, Robert P.
Madison, George
Magoffin, Beriah
McCreary, James B.
Metcalfe, Thomas
Morehead, Charles Slaughter
Morehead, James Turner
Morrow, Edwin P.
Nunn, Louie B.
Owsley, William
Patton, Paul E.
Powell, Lazarus
Robinson, James F.
Sampson, Flem
Scott, Charles
Shelby, Isaac
Slaughter, Gabriel
Stanley, Augustus
Stevenson, John W.
Taylor, William S.
Wetherby, Lawrence
Wickliffe,Charles Anderson
Wilkinson, Wallace
Willis, Simeon
Willson, Augustus

Kentucky's First Governor, Isaac Shelby (Kentucky Historical Society)
Kentucky's First Governor
Isaac Shelby
(Kentucky Historical Society)

For more information on Kentucky's past governors and other officials, visit the Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives.