Kentucky. Governor (1816 : Madison)

George Madison was Kentucky's sixth governor and the first to die in office. He served as governor from August 1816 to October 1816. He was a Jeffersonian Republican.

Madison was born in 1763 in Augusta County, Virginia. Before Madison reached the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the Virginia Militia in order to fight in the Revolutionary War. Following the war, Madison moved west to Kentucky, and then became involved with the Indian Wars. He was severely wounded in 1791 when he led a company at St. Clair's defeat, and again in 1792 as a major when John Adair's force was attacked by Little Turtle.

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