The governors of Kentucky : a hitherto unprinted piece
Author : Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
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Page : 10 pages
File Size : 10,37 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Governors
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Author : Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
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Page : 10 pages
File Size : 10,37 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Governors
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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 11,55 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813129211
Author : Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
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Page : 10 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 1947
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,5 MB
Release : 1982
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Author : Kentucky. Murray State Teachers College
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Page : 1 pages
File Size : 15,27 MB
Release : 1943
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Author : Kentucky. Governor (1879-1883 : Blackburn)
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Page : 1 pages
File Size : 41,43 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Fasts and feasts
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Author : Bert T. Combs
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Page : 576 pages
File Size : 20,96 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Edward Breathitt
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Page : 642 pages
File Size : 48,22 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Edward Thompson Breathitt Jr. served as governor of Kentucky from December 12, 1967. The Breathitt administration was notable for its close ties with the national administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson and with Johnson's Great Society programs. Governor Breathitt led successful campaigns for economic and industrial development, civil rights legislation, increased support for education, and expansion and improvement of the state highway and park systems. His most significant defeat was the rejection in 1966 of a new state constitution. His administration won several national awards, including: a Lincoln Key Award (1966) for leadership in the passage of civil rights legislation; Society of Industrial Investors' award (1964) for the best industrial development program; the Midwest Travel Writers Association award (1965) for the best travel promotion program; and the U.S. Department of Interior Distinguished Service Award (1967) for contributions in the field of conservation. Governor Breathitt's papers are of historical importance for the light they shed on one governor's attempts to mesh state and federal actions and to fit federal programming to the needs of his state.
Author : Kentucky. Governor (1820-1824 : Adair)
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Page : 15 pages
File Size : 18,45 MB
Release : 1821
Category : Kentucky
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Author : Lawrence Wetherby
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Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,53 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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This volume preserves the public papers and letters from the five-year period when Lawrence W. Wetherby was governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Relatively little of this material has been available heretofore to the general public. And its inaccessibility may explain why the Wetherby administration has yet to be fully appreciated even by historians and political scientists. The years 1950 through 1955 offered problems and opportunities that made being governor both a challenge and a joy. It was a period of economic growth fostered by the artificial stimulus of the Korean War, and sudden economic readjustment when the war ended, that resulted in financial problems for Kentucky's government. There was depression in the important coal industry that caused a mass exodus of people from eastern Kentucky. A brief drought impaired agricultural production. While President Harry Truman had been quite solicitous of the state's needs, the new Republican administration in Washington was less so. Yet, of a positive nature, there was an influx of tourists, a concerted effort to diversify the state's economic base through industrialization, and an attempt to mitigate a characteristic isolation both within and without through the construction of toll roads and rural highways. The papers in this volume reflect the thought of Kentucky's executive branch on all of these issues.