Category
page 1Slave owners from Kentucky
Zachary Taylor
president of the United States from 1849 to 1850
John C. Breckinridge
vice president of the United States from 1857 to 1861 (1821–1875)
Richard Mentor Johnson
vice president of the United States from 1837 to 1841
Henry Clay
American politician from Kentucky (1777-1852)
Robert Anderson
Union Army general (1805–1871)
John Adair
American politician (1757–1840)
George Rogers Clark
American surveyor, soldier, and militia officer (1752–1818)
John J. Crittenden
U.S. Attorney General and politician from Kentucky (1787-1863)
John Marshall Harlan
US Supreme Court justice from 1877 to 1911 (1833-1911)
Isaac Shelby
American politician (1750-1826)
James G. Birney
American politician (1792-1857)
Cassius M. Clay
American planter, politician and ambassador to Russia (1810-1903)
Francis Preston Blair Jr.
Union Army general, politician (1821–1875)
James Garrard
American politician (1749–1822)
Joseph Desha
American politician (1768-1842)
William T. Barry
American politician (1784–1835)
John Breathitt
American politician (1786-1834)
John Hunt Morgan
Confederate Army general (1825–1864)
Charles Scott
governor of Kentucky from 1808 to 1812
Lazarus Powell
American politician (1812–1867)
John L. Helm
Governor of Kentucky (1802-1867)
John W. Stevenson
American politician, Kentucky (1812-1886)
Preston Leslie
Governor of Kentucky (1819-1907)
Charles A. Wickliffe
American politician from Kentucky (1788-1869)
James Clark
American politician (1779-1839)
Humphrey Marshall
American politician (1760–1841)
Martin John Spalding
(1810-1872), Archbishop of Baltimore
Thomas Metcalfe
American politician (1780–1855)
Charles S. Morehead
US politician, 20th governor of Kentucky (1802-1868)
Robert P. Letcher
American governor of Kentucky (1788-1861)
John Rowan
American politician, Kentucky (1773-1843)
Martin D. Hardin
American politician (1780–1823)
Jesse Bledsoe
American politician (1776–1836)
Lewis W. Green
American minister and university president
Benedict Joseph Flaget
first Roman Catholic bishop
Green Clay Smith
Union Army general (1826-1895)
Charles Nerinckx
Belgian missionary priest (1761–1824)
Benjamin Hardin
American politician (1784-1852)
Ormond Beatty
American educator and academic administrator
Champ Ferguson
American mass murderer
John P. Gaines
American politician (1795-1857)
Joshua Fry Bell
American politician (1811-1870)
Joshua Fry Speed
American politician and farmer (1814–1882)
James S. Jackson
U.S. Representative from Kentucky and a brigadier general in the Union Army (1823-1862)
Lloyd Tilghman
Confederate Army general
Cabell Breckinridge
American politician from Kentucky (1788–1823)
John Clarke Young
American educator, pastor, academic administrator, and fourth president of Centre College (1803–1857)
Abraham Owen Smoot
American Mormon pioneer (1815–1895)