Executive minute book, 1855-1859.

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Executive minute book, 1855-1859.

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This informal minutes journal documents Governor Charles Morehead's daily actions, the record of which were later transferred to the more detailed and formal executive journal. Included are notes about appointments and commissions of civil officials and militia officers; pardons and remissions of fines; and approved expenditures.

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Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives, Kentucky State Archives

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Kentucky. Militia

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Morehead, Charles, 1802-1868.

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James Turner Morehead became the twelfth governor and the first native-born Kentuckian to hold that office after the death of Governor John Breathitt in February 1834. The succession of Lieutenant Governor Morehead to the governorship proved a sharp disappointment to the young Democratic party since Breathitt, a Democrat, and Morehead, a National Republican, had been elected on a split ticket. Morehead was born in 1797, in Bullitt County, Kentucky. He attended Transylvan...