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1792-1796 - Isaac Shelby
1796-1804 - James Garrard
1804-1808 - Christopher Greenup
1808-1812 - Charles Scott
1812-1816 - Isaac Shelby
1816 - George Madison
1816-1820 - Gabriel Slaughter
1820-1824 - John Adair
1824-1828 - Joseph Desha
1828-1832 - Thomas Metcalfe
1832-1834 - John Breathitt
1834-1836 - James Turner Morehead
1836-1839 - James Clark
1839-1840 - Charles Anderson Wickliffe
1840-1844 - Robert P. Letcher
1844-1848 - William Owsley
1848-1850 - John J. Crittenden
1850-1851 - John L. Helm
1851-1855 - Lazarus Powell
1855-1859 - Charles Slaughter Morehead
1859-1862 - Beriah Magoffin
1862-1863 - James F. Robinson
1863-1867 - Thomas E. Bramlette
1867 - John L. Helm
1867-1871 - John W. Stevenson
1871-1875 - Preston H. Leslie
1875-1879 - James B. McCreary
1879-1883 - Luke Blackburn
1883-1887 - James Proctor Knott
1887-1891 - Simon Bolivar Buckner
1891-1895 - John Young Brown
1895-1899 - William O. Bradley
1899-1900 - William S. Taylor
1900 - William Goebel
1900-1907 - John Crepps Wickliffe (J.C.W.) Beckham
1907-1911 - Augustus E. Willson
1911-1915 - James B. McCreary
1915-1919 - Augustus Owsley Stanley
1919 - James Dixon Black
1919-1923 - Edwin P. Morrow
1923-1927 - William J. Fields
1927-1931 - Flem D. Sampson
1931-1935 - Ruby Laffoon
1935-1939 - A.B. ("Happy") Chandler
1939-1943 - Keen Johnson
1943-1947 - Simeon S. Willis
1947-1950 - Earle C. Clements
1950-1955 - Lawrence W. Wetherby
1955-1959 - A.B. ("Happy") Chandler
1959-1963 - Bert T. Combs
1963-1967 - Edward ("Ned") Breathitt
1967-1971 - Louie B. Nunn
1971-1974 - Wendell Ford
1974-1979 - Julian Carroll
1979-1983 - John Y. Brown, Jr.
1983-1987 - Martha Layne (Hall) Collins
1987-1991 - Wallace Wilkinson
1991-1995 - Brereton C. Jones
1995-2003 - Paul E. Patton
2003- - Ernie Fletcher
Notes:
Elected to another term
Died while holding office
Resigned office when appointed to be U.S.Attorney General
Resigned from office due to disagreements with the legislature over Kentucky's role in the Civil War. He was allowed to pick his successor to the governorship.
Resigned from office to accept a U.S. Senate seat.
The Democratic General Assembly contested his election and declared it unconstitutional.
Appointed by the General Assembly.
Assassinated while holding office.
Special election.
Paroled Henry Youtsey, convicted assassin of Gov. William Goebel.
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