Kentucky. Governor (1820-1824 : Adair)

John Adair served as Kentucky's governor from 1820 to 1824. He was the state's eighth chief executive. Adair was affiliated with the Jeffersonian Republicans.

Born in South Carolina in 1757, Adair served in the American Revolution. After the war, he was a member of the South Carolina convention for the ratification of the United States Constitution. Adair migrated west in 1786, settled in Mercer County, Kentucky and saw duty as a major in the Northwest Indian campaigns in 1791. He was a member of the 1792 Kentucky Constitutional Convention and continued his military involvement until the threat of Indian raids was eliminated in 1793.

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