Versailles is a home rule-class city in Woodford County,Kentucky,United States. It lies 13 miles by road west of Lexington and is part of the Lexington-Fayette Metropolitan Statistical Area. Versailles has a population of 9,316 according to 2017 census estimates. It is the county seat of Woodford County. The city's name is pronounced vər-SAYLZ,an anglicization different from the French pronunciation of the royal city of the same name near Paris.
John Jordan Crittenden was an American statesman and politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He represented the state in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and twice served as United States Attorney General in the administrations of William Henry Harrison,John Tyler,and Millard Fillmore. He was also the 17th governor of Kentucky and served in the state legislature. Although frequently mentioned as a potential candidate for the U.S. presidency,he never consented to run for the office.
William Taylor Barry was an American slave owner,statesman and jurist. He served as Postmaster General for most of the administration of President Andrew Jackson and was the only Cabinet member not to resign in 1831 as a result of the Petticoat affair.
The Kentucky State Capitol is located in Frankfort and is the house of the three branches of the state government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Humphrey Marshall was a politician from the U.S. states of Virginia and Kentucky. He served in the state legislatures of both states and represented Kentucky in the United States Senate from 1795 to 1801. He was a member of the Marshall political family which included his cousins Chief Justice of the United States John Marshall,federal judge James Markham Marshall,and noted educator Louis Marshall. All the prominent members of this family were Federalists. Marshall was also the father of Congressman Thomas Alexander Marshall and the grandfather of Congressman and Confederate General Humphrey Marshall.
John White Stevenson was the 25th governor of Kentucky and represented the state in both houses of the U.S. Congress. The son of former Speaker of the House and U.S. diplomat Andrew Stevenson,John Stevenson graduated from the University of Virginia in 1832 and studied law under his cousin,future Congressman Willoughby Newton. After briefly practicing law in Mississippi,he relocated to Covington,Kentucky,and was elected county attorney. After serving in the Kentucky legislature,he was chosen as a delegate to the state's third constitutional convention in 1849 and was one of three commissioners charged with revising its code of laws,a task finished in 1854. A Democrat,he was elected to two consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives where he supported several proposed compromises to avert the Civil War and blamed the Radical Republicans for their failure.
Augustus Owsley Stanley I was an American politician from Kentucky. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as the 38th governor of Kentucky and also represented the state in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. From 1903 to 1915,Stanley represented Kentucky's 2nd congressional district in the House of Representatives,where he gained a reputation as a progressive reformer. Beginning in 1904,he called for an antitrust investigation of the American Tobacco Company,claiming they were a monopsony that drove down prices for the tobacco farmers of his district. As a result of his investigation,the Supreme Court of the United States ordered the breakup of the American Tobacco Company in 1911. Stanley also chaired a committee that conducted an antitrust investigation of U.S. Steel,which brought him national acclaim. Many of his ideas were incorporated into the Clayton Antitrust Act.
Ollie Murray James was an American politician. A Democrat,he represented Kentucky in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.
William Lindsay was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1893 to 1901.
James Turner Morehead was a United States Senator and the 12th Governor of Kentucky. He was the first native-born Kentuckian to hold the governorship of the state. A member of Henry Clay's National Republican Party,Morehead entered politics just as his party was beginning to challenge the Democratic Party's dominance in the state.
James Burnie Beck an immigrant,was a slave owner,white supremacist,and United States Representative and Senator from Kentucky.
Josiah Stoddard Johnston was a United States representative and Senator from Louisiana. Born in Salisbury,Connecticut,he moved with his father to Kentucky in 1788,and went to Connecticut to attend primary school. He graduated from Transylvania University in 1802,studied law,was admitted to the bar,and commenced practice in Alexandria,Louisiana. He was a member of the Territorial legislature from 1805 to 1812 and during the War of 1812 raised and organized a regiment for the defense of New Orleans,but reached the city after the battle. He engaged in agricultural pursuits and was a State district judge from 1812 to 1821.
Robert Perkins Letcher was a politician and lawyer from the US state of Kentucky. He served as a U.S. Representative,Minister to Mexico,and the 15th Governor of Kentucky. He also served in the Kentucky General Assembly where he was Speaker of the House in 1837 and 1838. A strong supporter of the Whig Party,he was a friend of Henry Clay and John J. Crittenden.
James Edwards Cantrill was elected the 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky serving from 1879 to 1883 under Governor Luke P. Blackburn. He also served as a circuit court judge starting in 1892,and in 1898 was elected to the Court of Appeals bench.
Alexander Keith Marshall was an American physician who became aligned with the Know Nothing Party and served as single term as United States Representative from Kentucky.
Thomas Francis Marshall was a politician and lawyer from Kentucky. He was the nephew of John Marshall.
Joseph Lecompte was a United States representative from Kentucky. He was born in Woodford County,Kentucky near the town of Georgetown,Kentucky. He moved to Henry County,Kentucky with his parents,who settled in Lecomptes Bottom on the Kentucky River where he attended the common schools. Later,he engaged in agricultural pursuits. He owned slaves.
Francis Johnson was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
John Daugherty White was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky,nephew of John White and cousin of Addison White and Hugh Lawson White both of whom served in public office.
William O'Connell Bradley was a politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He served as the 32nd Governor of Kentucky and was later elected by the state legislature as a U.S. senator from that state. The first Republican to serve as governor of Kentucky,Bradley became known as the father of the Republican Party in Kentucky.
