Kentucky Governors

#	Governor	Party	Term	Lt. Governor
1	Isaac Shelby	Democratic-Republican	June 4, 1792 - June 7, 1796	Office did not exist
2	James Garrard	Democratic-Republican	June 7, 1796 - September 5, 1804	Alexander Scott Bullitt (1800-1804)
3	Christopher Greenup	Democratic-Republican	September 5, 1804 - September 1, 1808	John Caldwell (died November 19, 1804; Thomas Posey
4	Charles Scott	Democratic-Republican	September 1, 1808 - August 24, 1812	Gabriel Slaughter
5	Isaac Shelby	Democratic-Republican	August 24, 1812 - September 5, 1816	Richard Hickman
6	George Madison	Democratic-Republican	September 5, 1816 - October 14, 1816 (died in office)	Gabriel Slaughter
7	Gabriel Slaughter	Democratic-Republican	October 14, 1816 - August 29, 1820	Vacant
8	John Adair	Democratic-Republican	August 29, 1820 - August 24, 1824	William T. Barry
9	Joseph Holmes Desha	Democratic-Republican	August 24, 1824 - August 26, 1828	Robert B. McAfee
10	Thomas Metcalfe	National Republican	August 26, 1828 - September 4, 1832	John Breathitt
11	John Breathitt	Democratic	September 4, 1832 - February 21, 1834 (died in office)	James Turner Morehead
12	James Turner Morehead	National Republican	February 21, 1834 - August 30, 1836	Vacant
13	James Clark	Whig	August 30, 1836 - August 27, 1839 (died in office)	Charles A. Wickliffe
14	Charles A. Wickliffe	Whig	August 27, 1839 - September 2, 1840	Vacant
15	Robert P. Letcher	Whig	September 2, 1840 - September 4, 1844	Manlius Valerius Thomson
16	William Owsley	Whig	September 4, 1844 - September 6, 1848	Archibald Dixon
17	John J. Crittenden	Whig	September 6, 1848 - July 31, 1850 (resigned)	John L. Helm
18	John L. Helm	Whig	July 31, 1850 - September 2, 1851	Vacant
19	Lazarus W. Powell	Democratic	September 2, 1851 - September 4, 1855	John Burton Thompson
20	Charles S. Morehead	Know Nothing	September 4, 1855 - August 30, 1859	James Greene Hardy
21	Beriah Magoffin	Democratic	August 30, 1859 - August 18, 1862 (resigned)	Linn Boyd (died December 17, 1859)
22	James Fisher Robinson	Democratic	August 18, 1862 - September 1, 1863	Vacant
23	Thomas E. Bramlette	Democratic	September 1, 1863 - September 3, 1867	Richard Taylor Jacob
24	John L. Helm	Democratic	September 3, 1867 - September 8, 1867 (died in office)	John W. Stevenson
25	John W. Stevenson	Democratic	September 8, 1867 - February 3, 1871 (resigned)	Vacant
26	Preston Leslie	Democratic	February 3, 1871 - August 31, 1875	John G. Carlisle
27	James B. McCreary	Democratic	August 31, 1875 - September 2, 1879	John C. Underwood
28	Luke P. Blackburn	Democratic	September 2, 1879 - September 5, 1883	James E. Cantrill
29	J. Proctor Knott	Democratic	September 5, 1883 - August 30, 1887	James R. Hindman
30	Simon Bolivar Buckner	Democratic	August 30, 1887 - September 2, 1891	James William Bryan
31	John Y. Brown	Democratic	September 2, 1891 - December 10, 1895	Mitchell Cary Alford
32	William O'Connell Bradley	Republican	December 10, 1895 - December 12, 1899	William Jackson Worthington
33	William S. Taylor	Republican	December 12, 1899 - January 31, 1900 (removed from office)	John Marshall
34	William Goebel	Democratic	January 31, 1900 - February 3, 1900 (assassinated)	J. C. W. Beckham
35	J. C. W. Beckham	Democratic	February 3, 1900 - December 10, 1907	William P. Thorne (as of 1903)
36	Augustus E. Willson	Republican	December 10, 1907 - December 12, 1911	William Hopkinson Cox
37	James B. McCreary	Democratic	December 12, 1911 - December 7, 1915	Edward J. McDermott
38	Augustus Owsley Stanley	Democratic	December 7, 1915 - May 19, 1919 (Resigned)	James D. Black
39	James D. Black	Democratic	May 19, 1919 - December 9, 1919	Vacant
40	Edwin P. Morrow	Republican	December 9, 1919 - December 11, 1923	S. Thruston Ballard
41	William J. Fields	Democratic	December 11, 1923 - December 13, 1927	Henry Denhardt
42	Flem D. Sampson	Republican	December 13, 1927 - December 8, 1931	James Breathitt, Jr.
43	Ruby Laffoon	Democratic	December 8, 1931 - December 10, 1935	Happy Chandler
44	Happy Chandler	Democratic	December 10, 1935 - October 9, 1939 (Resigned)	Keen Johnson
45	Keen Johnson	Democratic	October 9, 1939 - December 7, 1943	Rodes K. Myers
46	Simeon Willis	Republican	December 7, 1943 - December 9, 1947	Kenneth H. Tuggle
47	Earle Clements	Democratic	December 9, 1947 - November 27, 1950 (Resigned)	Lawrence Wetherby
48	Lawrence Wetherby	Democratic	November 27, 1950 - December 13, 1955	Emerson Beauchamp
49	Happy Chandler	Democratic	December 13, 1955 - December 8, 1959	Harry Lee Waterfield
50	Bert Combs	Democratic	December 8, 1959 - December 10, 1963	Wilson W. Wyatt
51	Ned Breathitt	Democratic	December 10, 1963 - December 12, 1967	Harry Lee Waterfield
52	Louie Nunn	Republican	December 12, 1967 - December 7, 1971	Wendell Ford
53	Wendell Ford	Democratic	December 7, 1971 - December 28, 1974 (Resigned)	Julian Carroll
54	Julian Carroll	Democratic	December 28, 1974 - December 11, 1979	Thelma Stovall
55	John Y. Brown, Jr.	Democratic	December 11, 1979 - December 13, 1983	Martha Layne Collins
56	Martha Layne Collins	Democratic	December 13, 1983 - December 8, 1987	Steve Beshear
57	Wallace Wilkinson	Democratic	December 8, 1987 - December 10, 1991	Brereton Jones
58	Brereton Jones	Democratic	December 10, 1991 - December 12, 1995	Paul Patton
59	Paul Patton	Democratic	December 12, 1995 - December 9, 2003	Steve Henry
60	Ernie Fletcher	Republican	December 9, 2003 - December 11, 2007	Steve Pence
61	Steve Beshear	Democratic	December 11, 2007 - December 8, 2015	Jerry Abramson; Crit Luallen
62	Matt Bevin	Republican	December 8, 2015 - Current	Jenean Hampton