Presidential elections were held in the United States from November 4 to December 7,1808. The Democratic-Republican candidate James Madison defeated Federalist candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney decisively.
Lexington is a consolidated city coterminous with and the county seat of Fayette County,Kentucky,United States. As of the 2020 census the city's population was 322,570,making it the second-most populous city in Kentucky,the 14th-most populous city in the Southeast,and the 59th-most populous city in the United States. By land area,it is the country's 30th-largest city.
Breckinridge County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census,the population was 20,432. Its county seat is Hardinsburg,Kentucky. The county was named for John Breckinridge (1760–1806),a Kentucky Attorney General,state legislator,United States Senator,and United States Attorney General. It was the 38th Kentucky county in order of formation. Breckinridge County is now a wet county,following a local-option election on January 29,2013,but it had been a dry county for the previous 105 years.
The University of Kentucky is a public land-grant research university in Lexington,Kentucky,United States. Founded in 1865 by John Bryan Bowman as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky,the university is one of the state's two land-grant universities. It is the institution with the highest enrollment in the state,with 32,710 students in the fall of 2022.
The University of Louisville (UofL) is a public research university in Louisville,Kentucky,United States. It is part of the Kentucky state university system. Chartered in 1798 as the Jefferson Seminary,it became in the 19th century one of the first city-funded public colleges in the United States. The university is mandated by the Kentucky General Assembly to be a "Preeminent Metropolitan Research University".
Eastern Kentucky University is a public university in Richmond,Kentucky. It also maintains branch campuses in Corbin,Hazard,and Manchester and offers over 40 online undergraduate and graduate options.
John Marshall Harlan was an American lawyer and politician who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1877 until his death in 1911. He is often called "The Great Dissenter" due to his many dissents in cases that restricted civil liberties,including the Civil Rights Cases,Plessy v. Ferguson,and Giles v. Harris. Many of Harlan's views expressed in his notable dissents would become the official view of the Supreme Court starting from the 1950s Warren Court and onward.
Frederick Moore Vinson was an American attorney and politician who served as the 13th chief justice of the United States from 1946 until his death in 1953. Vinson was one of the few Americans to have served in all three branches of the U.S. government. Before becoming chief justice,Vinson served as a U.S. Representative from Kentucky from 1924 to 1928 and 1930 to 1938,as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1938 to 1943,and as the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1945 to 1946.
Centre College is a private liberal arts college in Danville,Kentucky,with an enrollment of about 1,400 students. Chartered by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1819,the college is a member of the Associated Colleges of the South and the Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities.
Spalding University is a private Catholic university in Louisville,Kentucky. It is affiliated with the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth.
Kenneth Lee Williams was an American herpetologist and author of books on the subject of snake biology and classification. Williams retired from teaching in Northwestern State University's biology department and received emeritus status in 2001. Williams is considered an authority on the milk snake and the herpetology of the Honduran Cloud Forest.
Thomas Todd was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1807 to 1826. Raised in the Colony of Virginia,he studied law and later participated in the founding of Kentucky,where he served as a clerk,judge,and justice. He was married twice and had a total of eight children. Todd joined the U.S. Supreme Court in 1807 and his handful of legal opinions there mostly concerned land claims. He was labeled the most insignificant U.S. Supreme Court justice by Frank H. Easterbrook in The Most Insignificant Justice:Further Evidence,50 U. Chi. L. Rev. 481 (1983).
Homer Alfred Neal was an American particle physicist and a distinguished professor at the University of Michigan. Neal was president of the American Physical Society in 2016. He was also a board member of Ford Motor Company,a council member of the National Museum of African American History and Culture,and a director of the Richard Lounsbery Foundation. Neal was the interim President of the University of Michigan in 1996. Neal's research group works as part of the ATLAS experiment hosted at CERN in Geneva.
Edward William Cornelius Humphrey,also known as "Alphabet Humphrey" and "Judge Humphrey",was a theological and legal scholar and influential member of the National Presbyterian General Assembly. A Harvard graduate with an honorary degree from Amherst,he was also an 1864 graduate of Centre College,of which he became a trustee in 1885. He was a trustee of the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and for forty-four successive terms was elected Director of the Louisville Law Library Company. He was a key figure in a long discussion and eventual acceptance of a Presbyterian creed revision held in May 1902 in New York City by the national Presbyterian General Assembly.
James Richard Fryman was an American politician in the state of Kentucky. He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives as a Republican from 1980 to 1985.
Jacob Frymire was an American itinerant painter.
