Daviess County ( "Davis"),is a county in Kentucky. As of the 2020 census,the population was 103,312. Its county seat is Owensboro. The county was formed from part of Ohio County on January 14,1815.
Owensboro is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Daviess County,Kentucky,United States. It is the fourth-most populous city in the state. Owensboro is located on U.S. Route 60 and Interstate 165 about 107 miles (172 km) southwest of Louisville,and is the principal city of the Owensboro metropolitan area. The 2020 census had its population at 60,183. The metropolitan population was estimated at 116,506. The metropolitan area is the sixth largest in the state as of 2018,and the seventh largest population center in the state when including micropolitan areas.
Wendell Hampton Ford was an American politician from Kentucky. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as Governor of Kentucky from 1971 to 1974,a member of the United States Senate for 24 years from 1974 to 1999. He was the first person to be successively elected lieutenant governor,governor,and United States senator in Kentucky history. He was the Senate Democratic whip from 1991 to 1999,and was considered the leader of the state's Democratic Party from his election as governor in 1971 until he retired from the Senate in 1999. At the time of his retirement he was the longest-serving senator in Kentucky's history,a mark which was then surpassed by Mitch McConnell in 2009. Ford is the last Democrat to have served as a Senator from the state of Kentucky.
Rainey Bethea,was the last person publicly executed in the United States. Bethea,who confessed to the rape and killing of a 70-year-old woman named Lischia Edwards,was convicted of her rape and publicly hanged in Owensboro,Kentucky.
Daymar College was a for-profit college based in Nashville,Tennessee,United States. Founded in 1963 and operated as Owensboro Business College until 2001,Daymar College offered more than 35 career tracks in 22 different academic programs. Daymar College was accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC).
James Leeper Johnson was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky.
William Thomas Ellis was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky,United States.
George Washington Triplett was a Confederate politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War. Prior to the war,he served in the Kentucky House of Representatives and the Kentucky Senate.
Daviess County Public Schools is a school district that manages the public schools in Daviess County,Kentucky,USA. However,within the city limits,Owensboro Public Schools is an independent district from the county schools.
James Glenn Jr. is a former Democratic member of the Kentucky House of Representatives.
The Confederate Monument in Owensboro,Ky., was a 16-foot-tall,two-part object —a 7-foot-tall bronze sculpture atop a 9-foot-tall granite pedestal —located at the southwest corner of the Daviess County Courthouse lawn,at the intersection of Third and Frederica Streets,in Owensboro,Kentucky. Nearly 122 years after the monument was dedicated in September 1900,the monument was dismantled in 2022,beginning with the removal of the sculpture in May 2022;the sculpture was placed in storage,pending a decision on what to do with it.
Joseph Henry McKinley Jr. is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky.
Suzanne Miles is a Republican politician from her native Owensboro,Kentucky,who represents the 7th District in the Kentucky House of Representatives,and serves as the Majority Caucus Chair.
Rice Evan Graves Jr. was an artillery officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was killed in the Battle of Chickamauga.
Thomas Stevenson Pettit was a newspaper publisher and politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. Orphaned at age ten,he found work in a printing house in his hometown of Frankfort. In 1864,he moved to Owensboro,Kentucky,and purchased a newspaper called the Monitor. He incurred the wrath of Union Army General Stephen G. Burbridge because he vigorously criticized the Republicans' policies during the Civil War;Burbridge ordered Pettit arrested and relocated behind Confederate lines for the duration of the war.
Joseph R. Bowen was an American politician from Kentucky.
William Milton Gant was an associate justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals from 1976 to 1982 and the Kentucky Supreme Court from 1983 to 1991.
David Glenn was of Irish descent and was born in 1753,likely in Pennsylvania but possibly in Virginia. He was one of the early settlers of Kentucky having accompanied James Harrod in founding Harrodstown in 1774,along with his older brother,Thomas. Today,Harrodsburg is considered the oldest permanent white settlement in Kentucky,being it was settled almost a full year before Boonesborough.
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky were held on November 8,2022,to elect the six U.S. representatives from the state of Kentucky,one from each of the state's six congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.
Donald Douglas is an American physician and politician serving as a member of the Kentucky Senate from the 22nd district. He assumed office on November 18,2021.
