Alben William Barkley was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served as the 35th vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953 under President Harry S. Truman. In 1905,he was elected to local offices and in 1912 as a U.S. representative. Serving in both houses of Congress,he was a liberal Democrat,supporting President Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom domestic agenda and foreign policy.
Paducah is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of McCracken County,Kentucky,United States. The largest city in the Jackson Purchase region,it is located in the Southeastern United States at the confluence of the Tennessee and the Ohio rivers,halfway between St. Louis,Missouri,to the northwest and Nashville,Tennessee,to the southeast. As of the 2020 census,the population was 27,137,up from 25,024 in 2010. Twenty blocks of the city's downtown have been designated as a historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Jackson Purchase,also known as the Purchase Region or simply the Purchase,is a region in the U.S. state of Kentucky bounded by the Mississippi River to the west,the Ohio River to the north,and the Tennessee River to the east.
Felix Grundy was an American politician who served as the 13th United States Attorney General. He also was a congressman and U.S. senator from Tennessee.
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 Presidents Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan,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.
Southern Democrats are members of the U.S. Democratic Party who reside in the Southern United States.
Kenneth Douglas McKellar was an American politician from Tennessee who served as a United States Representative from 1911 until 1917 and as a United States Senator from 1917 until 1953. A Democrat,he served longer in both houses of Congress than anyone else in Tennessee history.
The Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia is a comprehensive project to publish,in one collection,the significant sayings,important conversations and writings of the 26th President of the United States,Theodore Roosevelt. Originally conceived by Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart,a history professor at Harvard University,a personal friend of Roosevelt and member of the Roosevelt Memorial Association,now known as the Theodore Roosevelt Association,Hart's goal was,in his words,to "present in alphabetical arrangement,extracts sufficiently numerous and comprehensive to display all the phases of (Theodore) Roosevelt's activities and opinions as expressed by him." An A-Z online index of the original work is also maintained by the TRA. The 1941 Cyclopedia is out of print,but was made available in a CD-ROM version in 1989,the 1989 version can be found online.
Kentucky Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River on the county line between Livingston and Marshall counties in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The dam is the lowermost of nine dams on the river owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority,which built the dam in the late 1930s and early 1940s to improve navigation on the lower part of the river and reduce flooding on the lower Ohio and Mississippi rivers. It was a major project initiated during the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration,to invest in infrastructure to benefit the country. The dam impounds the Kentucky Lake of 160,000 acres (65,000 ha),which is the largest of TVA's reservoirs and the largest artificial lake by area in the Eastern United States. It was designated as an National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1996 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The 1940 Democratic National Convention was held at the Chicago Stadium in Chicago,Illinois from July 15 to July 18,1940. The convention resulted in the nomination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace from Iowa was nominated for vice president.
Isaac Herschel Goodnight was a United States representative from Kentucky.
David Grant Colson was an American politician from the State of Kentucky who served as a U.S. Representative from Kentucky's 11th congressional district. He previously served in the Kentucky House of Representatives and as the mayor of Middlesboro.
John Daniel Clardy was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
Lawrence Strother Trimble was a United States congressman from Kentucky,a Kentucky judge,and New Mexican politician and lawyer.
William Prather Curlin Jr. was an American politician and lawyer from Kentucky. He was a former member of the United States House of Representatives.
William Thomas Ellis was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky,United States.
Elbert Hamilton Hubbard,a second-generation congressman,was a four-term Republican U.S. Representative from the now-obsolete 11th congressional district in northwestern Iowa.
The 2000 United States presidential election in Kentucky took place on November 7,2000,as part of the 2000 United States presidential election,which included elections in all 50 states and D.C. Voters chose 8 representatives,or electors to the Electoral College,who voted for president and vice president.
The 1948 United States presidential election in Tennessee took place on November 2,1948,as part of the 1948 United States presidential election. Tennessee voters chose 12 representatives,or electors,to the Electoral College,who voted for president and vice president.
