Owenton is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Owen County,Kentucky,United States. The population was 1,327 at the 2010 census. It is located at the junction of U.S. Route 127 and Kentucky Route 22,about halfway between Louisville and Cincinnati.
Ardolph Loges Kline,was a senior officer of the New York National Guard and a Republican politician who became acting Mayor of New York City on September 10,1913,upon the death of Mayor William Jay Gaynor,serving for the rest of the year. He was later a United States representative from Brooklyn (1921–1923).
John Griffin Carlisle was an American politician from the commonwealth of Kentucky and was a member of the Democratic Party. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives seven times,first in 1876,and served as Speaker of the House,from 1883 to 1889. He subsequently served as a U.S. senator from Kentucky,from 1890 to 1893,and then as Secretary of the Treasury,from 1893 to 1897,during the Panic of 1893. As a Bourbon Democrat he was a leader of the conservative,pro-business wing of the party,along with President Grover Cleveland.
Alvin Victor Donahey was an American Democratic Party politician from Ohio. Donahey was the 50th governor of Ohio and a United States Senator from Ohio.
Jed Joseph Johnson,Sr. was an American attorney,politician,and jurist who served as a United States representative from Oklahoma and a judge of the United States Customs Court.
Jesse David Bright was the ninth Lieutenant Governor of Indiana and U.S. Senator from Indiana who served as President pro tempore of the Senate on three occasions. He was the only senator from a Northern state to be expelled for being a Confederate sympathizer. As a leading Copperhead he opposed the Civil War. He was frequently in competition with Governor Joseph A. Wright,the leader of the state's Republican Party.
Richard Pretlow Ernst was a Republican U.S. Senator from Kentucky who served from 1921 to 1927.
William Whiting was an American businessman and politician from Holyoke,Massachusetts. Whiting descended from an English family who first settled in Lynn,Massachusetts,during 1636.
George Austin Welsh was a United States representative from Pennsylvania and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
William Francis Walsh was a Republican-Conservative member of the United States House of Representatives from New York State.
Alexander "Aleck" Boarman was a United States representative from Louisiana and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. Previously,he served in the Confederate States Army and as Mayor of Shreveport,Louisiana.
Samuel McMillan was a Representative from New York.
Arthur Blythe Rouse was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
Judson Lincoln Newhall was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky,businessman and school musical director. Born in Hunterstown,Quebec,Canada,Newhall moved to Covington,Kentucky,with his parents in 1874. There,he attended public school and graduated from Martin's Academy in 1886.
Leonidas Felix Livingston was a U.S. Representative from Georgia.
William Eastin English was an American attorney and politician,a U.S. Representative from Indiana. He was the son of vice-presidential candidate and businessman,William Hayden English,and his wife Emma Mardulia Jackson.
Guy Tresillian Helvering was a United States representative from Kansas,Commissioner of Internal Revenue and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.
Richard Meloan Duncan was a United States representative from Missouri and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri.
The following is a timeline of the history of Lexington,Kentucky,United States.
