Kentucky. Governor (1836-1839 : Clark)
James Clark served as Kentucky's thirteenth governor. He was the first Whig candidate to be elected to the office.
Clark was born in 1779 in Bedford County, Virginia. The family settled near the Kentucky River in Clark County, Kentucky when Clark was still a child. He went to Virginia to study law under his older brother, returned to Kentucky and opened a practice in Winchester, and was admitted to the bar in 1797.
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