Who was the Governor of Kentucky in 1860?

Answer 1

John J. Crittenden (born September 10, 1787 in Versailles, Kentucky; died July 26, 1863 in Frankfort, Kentucky) succeeded William Owsley as the seventeenth Governor of Kentucky, serving between September 6, 1848 and July 22, 1850.

Following the end of Crittenden's term as Governor of Kentucky, John Helm (born July 4, 1802 in Hardin County, Kentucky; died September 8, 1867 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky) became the eighteenth Governor of Kentucky, serving between July 31, 1850 and September 2, 1851.

Answer 2

Lazarus W. Powell (born October 6, 1812 in Henderson County, Kentucky; died July 3, 1867 in Henderson County, Kentucky) succeeded John L. Helm as the nineteenth Governor of Kentucky, serving between September 2, 1851 and September 4, 1855.

Following the end of Powell's term as Governor of Kentucky, Charles S. Morehead (born July 7, 1802 in Nelson County, Kentucky; died December 21, 1868 in Greenville, Mississippi) became the twentieth Governor of Kentucky, serving between September 4, 1855 and August 30, 1859.

Answer 3

Beriah Magoffin (born April 18, 1815 in Harrodsburg, Kentucky; died February 28, 1885 in Harrodsburg, Kentucky) succeeded Charles S. Morehead as the twenty-first Governor of Kentucky, serving between August 30, 1859 and August 18, 1862, including the whole of 1860.

Answer 4

Beriah Magoffin (born April 18, 1815 in Harrodsburg, Kentucky; died February 28, 1885 in Harrodsburg, Kentucky) succeeded Charles S. Morehead as the twenty-first Governor of Kentucky, serving between August 30, 1859 and August 18, 1862, including the whole of 1861.

Answer 5

Simon Bolivar Buckner (born April 1, 1823 in Hart County, Kentucky; died January 8, 1914 in Hart County, Kentucky) succeeded James Proctor Knott as the thirtieth Governor of Kentucky, serving between August 30, 1887 and September 2, 1891, including the whole of 1890.