LaRue County is a county in the central region of the U.S. state of Kentucky,outside the Bluegrass Region and larger population centers. As of the 2020 census,the population was 14,867. Its county seat is Hodgenville,which is best known as the birthplace of United States President Abraham Lincoln. The county was established on March 4,1843,from the southeast portion of Hardin County. It was named for John P. LaRue,an early settler. LaRue County is included in the Elizabethtown-Fort Knox,KY Metropolitan Statistical Area,which is also included in the Louisville/Jefferson County-Elizabethtown-Bardstown,KY-IN Combined Statistical Area. It is a dry county.
Elizabethtown is a home rule-class city and the county seat of Hardin County,Kentucky,United States. The population was 28,531 at the 2010 census,and was estimated at 31,394 by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2020,making it the 11th-largest city in the state. It is included in the Elizabethtown–Fort Knox,Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area,which is included in the Louisville/Jefferson County–Elizabethtown–Madison,Kentucky-Indiana Combined Statistical Area. The Elizabethtown Metropolitan area had a 2019 estimated population of 153,057,making it the 5th-largest metropolitan area in the state.
Ronald Edward Lewis is an American retired politician who was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1994 to 2009,having represented the 2nd congressional district of Kentucky.
Bremer Ehrler was an American politician who served as Jefferson County Judge/Executive and secretary of state of Kentucky.
Jack Camp "Cactus Jack" Curtice Jr. was an American football coach and college athletics administrator. Curtice served as the head football coach West Texas State (1940–1941),Texas Western (1946–1949),Utah (1950–1957),Stanford (1958–1962),and UC Santa Barbara (1962–1969). His teams were known for their passing offenses. His overall record was 135–115–8.
Jimmie Lee Jackson was an African American civil rights activist in Marion,Alabama,and a deacon in the Baptist church. On February 18,1965,while unarmed and participating in a peaceful voting rights march in his city,he was beaten by troopers and fatally shot by an Alabama state trooper. Jackson died eight days later in the hospital.
Interstate 65 (I-65) enters the US state of Kentucky from Tennessee,five miles (8.0 km) south of Franklin. It passes by the major cities of Bowling Green,Elizabethtown,and Louisville before exiting the state into Indiana.
The 2003 Kentucky gubernatorial election was held to elect the Governor of Kentucky on November 4,2003. Republican candidate Ernie Fletcher defeated Democrat Ben Chandler and became the first Republican governor of Kentucky in 32 years.
John Y. Hill was an American builder,tailor,bricklayer,cattle herder,hotel operator,and state legislator in Kentucky. He was born in Shepherds Town,Virginia in 1799 and moved to Elizabethtown,Hardin County,Kentucky,in approximately 1818. He worked as a tailor from approximately 1818 and into the 1830s. He also worked as a bricklayer and builder from 1825 and into the 1840s. He also served in the Kentucky House of Representatives. In approximately 1825,he built the Hill House,a Federal-style building in Elizabethtown. In the 1840s,he began operating Hill House as a boarding house. Hill died of pneumonia in August 1859. His second wife,Rebecca Davis Stone Hill,continued to operate Hill House until she died in 1882. General George Armstrong Custer lived at the house from 1871 to 1873.
Sannie Louise Overly is an American lawyer,engineer,and politician. A member of the Democratic Party,Overly served in the Kentucky House of Representatives,representing the 72nd district. She was the Democratic caucus chair from 2013 to 2017,and is the first woman to serve in a leadership role in the Kentucky House. She was the Democratic Party nominee for lieutenant governor of Kentucky in 2015,and was elected chair of the Kentucky Democratic Party in 2016.
John Morgan McGarvey is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Kentucky's 3rd congressional district since 2023. A Democrat,he represented the 19th district in the Kentucky Senate from 2013 to 2023. In 2018,he was elected minority leader,becoming one of the youngest members of a general assembly in the nation to serve in a leadership role. He is currently the only Democrat in Kentucky's congressional delegation.
Jimmie C. Lee is an American politician and former Democratic member of the Kentucky House of Representatives representing District 25 from January 1993 to January 2015.
Thomas Underwood Dudley was an American prelate who served as the second Bishop of Kentucky in The Episcopal Church.
Andrew Graham Beshear is an American attorney and politician who has served as the 63rd governor of Kentucky since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party,he is the son of former Governor Steve Beshear.
The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky were held on November 6,2018,to elect the six U.S. representatives from the state of Kentucky,one from each of the state's six congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate,and various state and local elections.
Attica Woodson Scott is an American politician who served as a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from the 41st district from 2017 to 2023.
Daniel Jay Cameron is an American attorney and politician who served as the attorney general of Kentucky from 2019 to 2024. A member of the Republican Party,Cameron was the first African American,and the first Republican since 1943,to be elected to the office. He was the Republican nominee in the 2023 Kentucky gubernatorial election,losing to incumbent Democrat Andy Beshear. Had Cameron won,he would have become Kentucky's first African American governor.
George Blackburn Kinkead,was an American lawyer,who served as Secretary of State of Kentucky (1846–47).
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky were held on November 8,2022,to elect the six U.S. representatives from the state of Kentucky,one from each of the state's six congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.
Fayette Hewitt was an American educator,postmaster,Confederate captain serving as assistant adjutant to several brigadier generals,appointed a quarter-master of the Kentucky militia in post-bellum Kentucky under Governor John W. Stevenson,elected Kentucky State Auditor serving from 1880 to 1889,and then a financier,including serving as president of the State National Bank of Frankfort.
