Georgetown is a home rule-class city in Scott County,Kentucky,United States. The population was 37,086 at the 2020 census. It is the 6th-largest city by population in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It is the seat of its county. It was originally called Lebanon when founded by Rev. Elijah Craig and was renamed in 1790 in honor of President George Washington. Historically,settlers were drawn to Georgetown for its Royal Spring.
Robert Ward Johnson was an American planter and lawyer who served as the senior Confederate States senator for Arkansas,a seat that he was elected to in 1861. He previously served as a delegate from Arkansas to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862.
John Brown was an American lawyer and statesman who participated in the development and formation of the State of Kentucky after the American Revolutionary War.
John Gayle was the 7th Governor of Alabama,a United States representative from Alabama,a justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama,the United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.
George Mortimer Bibb was an American lawyer and politician and the seventeenth United States Secretary of the Treasury. He was chief justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals and twice represented Kentucky as a senator in Congress,serving from 1811 to 1814 and from 1829 to 1835.
James Brown was a Virginia-born American lawyer,planter and politician who served as a Secretary of State for the new state of Kentucky,and later as U.S. Senator from Louisiana,and Minister to France (1823–1829) before his retirement and death in Philadelphia.
Benjamin Goodhue was a Representative and a Senator from Massachusetts. He supported the Patriot during the American Revolution,and was a strong member of the Federalist Party. He was described by contemporaries as a leading member of the so-called Essex Junto,a group of Massachusetts Federalists,most of whom were from Essex County.
Michael Delavan Ward is an American former politician and radio talk show host who served as a United States Representative from Kentucky. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He currently works a volunteer senior advisor in the office of Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg.
Benjamin Franklin Rice was a Republican politician from Arkansas,among several states,who represented that state in the United States Senate during the Reconstruction years from 1868 to 1873.
Richard Murray Simpson was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
James Campbell Cantrill was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
James Franklin Clay was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
John Durrett Craddock was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
John Daniel Clardy was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
John Telemachus Johnson was a minister in the Christian Church,an attorney,and a politician,elected as U.S. Representative from Kentucky. His older brothers,also politicians,included James Johnson and Richard M. Johnson,who served as Vice President under Martin Van Buren;he was the uncle of Robert Ward Johnson,also a politician.
Joseph Morgan Kendall was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Kentucky from 1892 to 1893,then again from 1895 to 1897. He was the son of John Wilkerson Kendall.
Benjamin Taylor Cable was an American politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Illinois from 1891 to 1893
Samuel McKee was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
Amul Roger Thapar is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He previously served as a U.S. district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky from 2008 to 2017 and as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky from 2006 to 2008. Thapar was President Donald Trump's first Court of Appeals appointment and Trump's second judicial appointment after Justice Neil Gorsuch. Thapar was discussed as a candidate for the Supreme Court of the United States.
Carroll Hubbard Jr. was an American politician and attorney from Kentucky. He began his political career in the Kentucky Senate,and was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1974. He served until he was defeated in 1992,after becoming embroiled in the House banking scandal,and ultimately spent two years in prison. After being released,Hubbard ran unsuccessfully for the Kentucky General Assembly on four occasions.
