Governor of Kentucky
Governor History63
Andy BeshearDemocratic • Dec 2023 – Present
Andy BeshearDemocratic • Dec 2019 – Dec 2023
Matt BevinRepublican • Jan 2015 – Dec 2019
Steven L. BeshearDemocratic • Jan 2007 – Dec 2015
Ernie FletcherRepublican • Jan 2003 – Dec 2007
Paul E. PattonDemocratic • Jan 1995 – Dec 2003
Brereton C. JonesDemocratic • Jan 1991 – Dec 1995
Wallace G. WilkinsonDemocratic • Jan 1987 – Dec 1991
Martha Layne CollinsDemocratic • Jan 1983 – Dec 1987
John Y. Brown Jr.Democratic • Jan 1979 – Dec 1983
Julian Morton CarrollDemocratic • Jan 1974 – Dec 1979
Wendell H. FordDemocratic • Jan 1971 – Dec 1974
Louie Broady NunnRepublican • Jan 1967 – Dec 1971
Edward Thompson BreathittDemocratic • Jan 1963 – Dec 1967
Bert Thomas CombsDemocratic • Jan 1959 – Dec 1963
Albert Benjamin ChandlerDemocratic • Jan 1955 – Dec 1959
Lawrence Winchester WetherbyDemocratic • Jan 1950 – Dec 1955
Earle Chester ClementsDemocratic • Jan 1947 – Dec 1950
Simeon Slavens WillisRepublican • Jan 1943 – Dec 1947
Keen JohnsonDemocratic • Jan 1939 – Dec 1943
Albert Benjamin ChandlerDemocratic • Jan 1935 – Dec 1939
Ruby LaffoonDemocratic • Jan 1931 – Dec 1935
Flem Davis SampsonRepublican • Jan 1927 – Dec 1931
William Jason FieldsDemocratic • Jan 1923 – Dec 1927
James Dixon BlackDemocratic • Jan 1919 – Dec 1919
Edwin Porch MorrowRepublican • Jan 1919 – Dec 1923
Augustus Owsley StanleyDemocratic • Jan 1915 – Dec 1919
James Bennett McCrearyDemocratic • Jan 1911 – Dec 1915
Augustus Everett WillsonRepublican • Jan 1907 – Dec 1911
John Crepps Wickliffe BeckhamDemocratic • Jan 1900 – Dec 1907
William GoebelDemocratic • Jan 1900 – Dec 1900
William Sylvester TaylorRepublican • Jan 1899 – Dec 1900
Bill BradleyRepublican • Jan 1895 – Dec 1899
John Young Brown Sr.Democratic • Jan 1891 – Dec 1895
Simon Bolivar BucknerDemocratic • Jan 1887 – Dec 1891
James Proctor KnottDemocratic • Jan 1883 – Dec 1887
Luke Pryor BlackburnDemocratic • Jan 1879 – Dec 1883
James Bennett McCrearyDemocratic • Jan 1875 – Dec 1879
Preston Hopkins LeslieDemocratic • Jan 1871 – Dec 1875
John White StevensonDemocratic • Jan 1867 – Dec 1871
John Larue HelmWhig • Jan 1867 – Dec 1867
Thomas Elliott BramletteDemocratic • Jan 1863 – Dec 1867
James Fisher RobinsonDemocratic • Jan 1862 – Dec 1863
Beriah MagoffinDemocratic • Jan 1859 – Dec 1862
Charles Slaughter MoreheadAmerican • Jan 1855 – Dec 1859
Lazarus Whitehead PowellDemocratic • Jan 1851 – Dec 1855
John Larue HelmWhig • Jan 1850 – Dec 1851
John Jordan CrittendenWhig • Jan 1848 – Dec 1850
William OwsleyWhig • Jan 1844 – Dec 1848
Robert Perkins LetcherWhig • Jan 1840 – Dec 1844
Charles Anderson WickliffeWhig • Jan 1839 – Dec 1840
James ClarkWhig • Jan 1836 – Dec 1839
James Turner MoreheadWhig • Jan 1834 – Dec 1836
John BreathittJacksonian Democratic • Jan 1832 – Dec 1834
Thomas MetcalfeWhig • Jan 1828 – Dec 1832
Joseph DeshaJeffersonian-Republican • Jan 1824 – Dec 1828
John AdairDemocratic-Republican • Jan 1820 – Dec 1824
Gabriel SlaughterJeffersonian-Republican • Jan 1816 – Dec 1820
George MadisonJeffersonian-Republican • Jan 1816 – Dec 1816
Charles ScottJeffersonian-Republican • Jan 1808 – Dec 1812
Christopher GreenupJeffersonian-Republican • Jan 1804 – Dec 1808
James GarrardJeffersonian-Republican • Jan 1796 – Dec 1804
Isaac ShelbyJeffersonian-Republican • Jan 1792 – Dec 1796