Daniel D. Tompkins was an American politician. He was the fourth governor of New York from 1807 to 1817,and the sixth vice president of the United States from 1817 to 1825.
Scott County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census,the population was 57,155. Scott County is part of the Lexington-Fayette,Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its county seat and largest city is Georgetown.
Henry Atkinson was a United States Army officer serving on the western frontier during the War of 1812 and the Yellowstone expedition. With Benjamin O'Fallon,he negotiated treaties with Indigenous nations of the upper Missouri River in 1825. Over his career in the army,he served in the West,the Gulf Coast,and in New York at the border with The Canadas.
Ninian Edwards was an American political figure who was prominent in Illinois. He served as the first and only governor of the Illinois Territory from 1809 to until the territory earned statehood in 1818. He was then one of the first two United States senators from the State of Illinois from 1818 to 1824,and the third Governor of Illinois from 1826 to 1830. In a time and place where personal coalitions were more influential than parties,Edwards led one of the two main factions in frontier Illinois politics.
Andrew Stevenson was an American politician,lawyer and diplomat. He represented Richmond,Virginia in the Virginia House of Delegates and eventually became its speaker before being elected to the United States House of Representatives;its members subsequently elected him their Speaker. Stevenson also served in the Jackson administration for four years as the U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom before retiring to his slave plantation in Albemarle County. He also served on the board of visitors of the University of Virginia and briefly as its rector before his death.
Christopher Greenup was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative and the third Governor of Kentucky. Little is known about his early life;the first reliable records about him are documents recording his service in the Revolutionary War where he served as a lieutenant in the Continental Army and a colonel in the Virginia militia.
Isaac Shelby was an American politician and military officer who was the first and fifth Governor of Kentucky and served in the state legislatures of Virginia and North Carolina. He also fought in Lord Dunmore's War,the American Revolutionary War,and the War of 1812. While governor,he led the Kentucky militia in the Battle of the Thames,an action that was rewarded with a Congressional Gold Medal. Counties in nine states,and several cities and military bases,have been named in his honor. His fondness for John Dickinson's "The Liberty Song" is believed to be the reason Kentucky adopted the state motto "United we stand,divided we fall".
Charles Scott was an American military officer and politician who served as the governor of Kentucky from 1808 to 1812. Orphaned in his teens,Scott enlisted in the Virginia Regiment in October 1755 and served as a scout and escort during the French and Indian War. He quickly rose through the ranks to become a captain. After the war,he married and engaged in agricultural pursuits on land left to him by his father,but he returned to active military service in 1775 as the American Revolution began to grow in intensity. In August 1776,he was promoted to colonel and given command of the 5th Virginia Regiment. The 5th Virginia joined George Washington in New Jersey later that year,serving with him for the duration of the Philadelphia campaign. Scott commanded Washington's light infantry,and by late 1778 was also serving as his chief of intelligence. Furloughed at the end of the Philadelphia campaign,Scott returned to active service in March 1779 and was ordered to South Carolina to assist General Benjamin Lincoln in the southern theater. He arrived in Charleston,South Carolina,just as Henry Clinton had begun his siege of the city. Scott was taken as a prisoner of war when Charleston surrendered. Paroled in March 1781 and exchanged for Lord Rawdon in July 1782,Scott managed to complete a few recruiting assignments before the war ended.
William Whitley,was an American pioneer in what became Kentucky,in the colonial and early Federal period. Born in Virginia,he was the son of Scottish Presbyterian immigrants from northern Ireland,then the Ulster Plantation. He was important to the early settlement of the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky,where he moved with his family from Virginia. He served with the Kentucky militia during the Northwest Indian War.
Gabriel Slaughter was the seventh Governor of Kentucky and was the first person to ascend to that office upon the death of the sitting governor. His family moved to Kentucky from Virginia when he was very young. He became a member of the Kentucky militia,serving throughout his political career. He received a citation from the state legislature in recognition of his service at the Battle of New Orleans.
Isham Talbot was a United States Senator from Kentucky.
Martin D. Hardin was a politician and lawyer from Kentucky. Born in Pennsylvania,his family immigrated to Kentucky when he was still young. He studied law under George Nicholas and commenced practice at Richmond,Kentucky. His cousin,future U.S. Representative Benjamin Hardin,studied in his law office. He represented Madison County in the Kentucky House of Representatives for a single term.
Pierre-Louis de Lorimier,usually anglicized to Peter Loramie,was a colonial French-Canadian fur trader,British Indian agent,and Shawnee agitator. In later years,he founded what became Cape Girardeau and Bollinger Counties,Missouri. He died in Cape Girardeau and was buried there with his Indian wife.
Thomas Wilson was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
James Johnson was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky,brother of Richard Mentor Johnson and John Telemachus Johnson and uncle of Robert Ward Johnson.
David Walker was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky,brother of George Walker and John Walker and grandfather of James D. Walker. He was the father of Florida governor David S. Walker and the uncle of another Florida governor Richard Keith Call. Walker played a pivotal role in the upbringing of his nephew,taking in Call's widowed mother and her children after the death of Call's father.
Charles Stewart Todd was an American military officer,government official and United States diplomat,serving as ambassador to Russia during the mid-19th century.
During the War of 1812,Kentucky supplied numerous troops and supplies to the war effort. Because Kentucky did not have to commit manpower to defending fortifications,most Kentucky troops campaigned actively against the enemy. This led to Kentucky seeing more battle casualties than all other states combined.
Benjamin Parke was an American lawyer,politician,militia officer,businessman,treaty negotiator in the Indiana Territory who also served as a United States federal judge in Indiana after it attained statehood in 1816. Parke was the Indiana Territory's attorney general (1804–1808);a representative to the territory's first general assembly (1805);its first territorial delegate to the United States House of Representatives (1805–1808);one of the five Knox County delegates to the Indiana constitutional convention of 1816;and a territorial court judge (1808–1816). After Indiana attained statehood,Parke served as the first United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Indiana (1817–1835).
Benjamin Harrison Reeves (1787–1849) was an American politician and the second Lieutenant Governor of Missouri. A Democratic-Republican,he served in the office for less than one year.
