Ernest Lee Fletcher is an American physician and politician who was the 60th governor of Kentucky from 2003 to 2007. He previously served three consecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives before resigning after being elected governor. A member of the Republican Party,Fletcher was a family practice physician and a Baptist lay minister and is the second physician to be elected Governor of Kentucky;the first was Luke P. Blackburn in 1879. He was also the first Republican governor of Kentucky since Louie Nunn left office in 1971.
John William Conway is an American lawyer and politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. A member of the Democratic Party,Conway served as the 49th attorney general of Kentucky from January 7,2008,to January 4,2016. Prior to his election as attorney general,he was the nominee for Kentucky's 3rd congressional district in the 2002 elections,narrowly losing to Republican incumbent Anne Northup.
Kathryn Elizabeth Granahan was an American politician. She served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and as the Treasurer of the United States,having been appointed by President John F. Kennedy.
Walter Demaree "Jody" Richards Jr. is an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1976 until 2019. He is the longest serving Speaker of the House in the history of the Kentucky legislature,having served from 1994 to 2008,a total of 14 years. Richards represented Kentucky's 20th District.
Bourbon County High School is a public high school in Paris,Kentucky. It is in the Bourbon County Schools system.
Jenniffer Aydin González Colón is a Puerto Rican politician who is currently serving as the 190th governor of Puerto Rico since 2025. She previously served as the 20th resident commissioner of Puerto Rico from 2017 to 2025. González-Colón has also held leadership positions in the New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico (PNP) and the Republican Party of the United States,including being chair of the Puerto Rico Republican Party,speaker and minority leader of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico,and vice-chair of the PNP. She is the second elected and third serving female governor,after Sila María Calderón and Wanda Vázquez Garced,and she is also the first and only woman to be elected or serve as Resident Commissioner.
Steven Lynn Beshear is an American attorney and politician who served as the 61st governor of Kentucky from 2007 to 2015. He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1974 to 1980,was the state's 44th attorney general from 1980 to 1983 and was the 49th lieutenant governor from 1983 to 1987.
Suzanne Miles is an American politician who has served as a Republican member of the Kentucky House of Representatives since January 2014. She represents Kentucky's 7th House district,which includes Daviess,Henderson,and Union counties. She serves as the House's Majority Caucus Chair,and is the first woman in Kentucky to serve as both an acting floor leader and an acting speaker of the chamber.
The 2014 United States Senate election in Kentucky took place on November 4,2014,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the Commonwealth of Kentucky,concurrently with elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
The 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky were held on Tuesday,November 6,2012,to elect the six U.S. representatives from the state of Kentucky,one from each of the state's six congressional districts. The elections will coincide with the elections of other federal and state offices,including a quadrennial presidential election. Primary elections were held on May 22,2012.
The 2015 Kentucky gubernatorial election took place on November 3,2015. Incumbent Democratic governor Steve Beshear was ineligible to run for a third term due to term limits. Primary elections were held on May 19,2015.
United States gubernatorial elections were held in three states in 2015 as part of the 2015 United States elections. In Kentucky and Mississippi,the elections were held on November 3,and in Louisiana,as no candidate received a majority of votes at the primary election on October 24,2015,a runoff election was held on November 21. The last regular gubernatorial elections for all three states were in 2011. Democrats picked up the open seat of term-limited Republican Bobby Jindal in Louisiana,while Republicans re-elected incumbent Phil Bryant in Mississippi and picked up the seat of term-limited Democrat Steve Beshear in Kentucky.
Robert R. Damron is an American investment banker and politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Affiliated with the Democratic Party,Damron was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1993 until 2015,representing the 39th district. He served as the House Majority Caucus Chair for 4 years before being unseated from his leadership position by Sannie Overly.
John Morgan McGarvey is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Kentucky's 3rd congressional district since 2023. A Southern Democrat,he represented the 19th district in the Kentucky Senate from 2012 to 2023. In 2018,he was elected minority leader,becoming one of the youngest members of a state legislature to serve in a leadership role. He is currently the only Democrat in Kentucky's congressional delegation.
Elisabeth Jensen is an education advocate and the Democratic Party nominee for Kentucky's 6th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky,2014.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Kentucky on November 3,2015. All of Kentucky's executive officers were up for election. Primary elections were held on May 19,2015.
Abby Lea Finkenauer is an American politician who serves as the United States Special Envoy for Global Youth Issues within the U.S. Department of State since December 1,2022. Finkenauer previously served as the U.S. representative from Iowa's 1st congressional district from 2019 to 2021. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
On January 3,2019,the first day of the 116th United States Congress and two months after the 2018 U.S. House elections,the incoming members of the U.S. House of Representatives held an election for speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. This was the 126th U.S. speaker election since the office was created in 1789.
Nikema Natassha Williams is an American politician and political executive serving as the representative for Georgia's 5th congressional district and as Chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia. The district includes almost three-quarters of Atlanta. She was a member of the Georgia State Senate for the 39th district from 2017 to 2021. Williams served as one of 16 electors for Georgia in the Electoral College following the 2020 United States presidential election.
Matthew Ryan Koch is an American politician serving as a Republican member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from Kentucky's 72nd House district. His district includes Bourbon,Fleming,and Nicholas County.
