Kentucky. Governor (1824-1828 : Desha)

Joseph Desha was elected as Kentucky's ninth governor in 1824, the first governor who was not a veteran of the American Revolution. Desha was a Jeffersonian Republican who also ran as a debt relief candidate.

Born in 1768, he moved to Kentucky with his family when he was thirteen and remained for three years before moving to Nashville, Tennessee. In 1792, he returned to Kentucky, and served in the Indian wars in 1794. He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1797 and 1799-1802; in the Kentucky Senate from 1802-1807; and in the United States House of Representatives from 1807-1819. He also served in the War of 1812 under General William Henry Harrison.

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