James Guthrie was an American lawyer,plantation owner,railroad president and Democratic Party politician in Kentucky. He served as the 21st United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Franklin Pierce,and then became president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. After serving,part-time,in both houses of the Kentucky legislature as well as Louisville's City Council before the American Civil War,Guthrie became one of Kentucky's United States Senators in 1865. Guthrie strongly opposed proposals for Kentucky to secede from the United States and attended the Peace Conference of 1861. Although he sided with the Union during the Civil War,he declined President Abraham Lincoln's offer to become the Secretary of War. As one of Kentucky's Senators after the war,Guthrie supported President Andrew Johnson and opposed Congressional Reconstruction.
John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham was an American attorney serving as the 35th Governor of Kentucky and a United States Senator from Kentucky. He was the state's first popularly-elected senator after the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment.
John Carpenter Bucklin was the first mayor of the city of Louisville.
John Millbank Delph was the eighth and fourteenth mayor of Louisville,Kentucky. His terms of office extended from May 13,1850,to April 26,1852,and April 6,1861,to April 4,1863.
The Southern Exposition was a five-year series of world's fairs held in the city of Louisville,Kentucky,from 1883 to 1887 in what is now Louisville's Old Louisville neighborhood. The exposition,held for 100 days each year on 45 acres (180,000 m2) immediately south of Central Park,which is now the St. James-Belgravia Historic District,was essentially an industrial and mercantile show. At the time,the exposition was larger than any previous American exhibition with the exception of the Centennial Exposition held in Philadelphia in 1876. U.S. President Chester A. Arthur opened the first annual exposition on August 1,1883.
Charles Donald Jacob was an American politician who served four terms as mayor of Louisville,Kentucky,two consecutively in 1873-78,then later in 1882-84 and 1888-90. He also served as the U.S. minister to Colombia in 1885–1886. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
Andrew Broaddus was Mayor of Louisville,Kentucky from December 1953 to December 1957.
The government of Louisville,Kentucky,headquartered at Louisville City Hall in Downtown Louisville,is organized under Chapter 67C of the Kentucky Revised Statutes as a First-Class city in the state of Kentucky. Created after the merger of the governments of Louisville,Kentucky and Jefferson County,Kentucky,the city/county government is organized under a mayor-council system. The Mayor is elected to four-year terms and is responsible for the administration of city government. The Louisville Metro Council is a unicameral body consisting of 26 members,each elected from a geographic district,normally for four-year terms. The Mayor is limited to a three consecutive term limit,while members of the Louisville Metro Council are not term limited.
Wilson Watkins Wyatt was an American politician who served as Mayor of Louisville,Kentucky from 1941 to 1945 and as the 43rd Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky from 1959 to 1963. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
William Preston was an American lawyer,politician,and ambassador. He also was a brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.
John Barbee was the tenth Mayor of Louisville,Kentucky from 1855 to 1857 and chiefly remembered for his part in the anti-immigrant riots known as "Bloody Monday".
William Kaye was the fifteenth Mayor of Louisville,Kentucky from April 4,1863,to April 1,1865.
Joseph Denunzio Scholtz was Mayor of Louisville,Kentucky from 1937 to 1941.
William Benjamin Harrison was the 41st mayor of Louisville,Kentucky from 1927 to 1933.
William O. Head was mayor of Louisville,Kentucky from 1909 to 1913.
John Henry Whallen was a Democratic Party political boss in Louisville,Kentucky during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in New Orleans,he moved with his family to Cincinnati,Ohio in his youth. As a boy during the Civil War he served the Confederate Army in Schoolfield's Battery as a "powder monkey",a boy who carried gunpowder. He later served as a courier for General John Hunt Morgan.
George Weissinger Smith was mayor of Louisville,Kentucky from 1917 to 1921. His maternal grandfather,George Weissinger,published the Louisville Journal during the controversial tenure of George D. Prentice.
Joseph Thomas O'Neal Jr was interim mayor of Louisville,Kentucky,from June to December 1927.
The John B. Castleman Monument,within the Cherokee Triangle of Louisville,Kentucky,was unveiled on November 8,1913. The model,selected from a competition to which numerous sculptors contributed,was designed by R. Hinton Perry of New York. The statue was erected to honor John Breckinridge Castleman at a cost of $15,000 by popular subscription from city,state,and other commonwealths. The statue is made of bronze,and rests on a granite pedestal. It stands 15-feet high,with a base of 12×20 feet. The monument was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 17,1997,as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS. There have been attempts to remove the statue since January 2019 due to the fact that Castleman was a Major of the Confederate army. The monument was removed on June 8,2020,and is pending cleaning and relocation to Castleman's burial site.
Edwin Bryant was a Kentucky newspaper editor whose popular 1848 book What I Saw in California describes his overland journey to California,his account of the infamous Donner Party,and his term as second alcalde,or pre-statehood mayor,of the city of San Francisco.
