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Steve Beshear was born on September 21, 1944, in Hopkins County, Kentucky. [1] He is the third of five children born to Orlando Russell and Mary Elizabeth (Joiner) Beshear. [1] He was raised in the small town of Dawson Springs, where his father owned a furniture store, operated a funeral home, and served as mayor. [2]
The governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky is the head of government of Kentucky, [1] and serves as commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. [2] The governor has a duty to enforce state laws; [3] the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the Kentucky General Assembly; [4] the power to convene the legislature; [5] and the power to grant pardons, except in cases of treason ...
In the 21st century, James Pritchard, a retired state archivist for Kentucky who published articles about the Underground Railroad, and several other persons worked to petition Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear to pardon Fairbank and others convicted of helping slaves escape. [5]
Beshear learned politics at the knee of his father, two-term Gov. Steve Beshear, who himself came of age when the Democratic Party was as monolithic in Kentucky as the Republican one is today.
That would be Steve Beshear, who was Kentucky’s two-term Democratic governor just four years before his son won the commonwealth’s top political job. A lot of what Andy knows about politics he ...
Andy Beshear’s 2019 election as governor, four years after his father Steve left office, marked Kentucky’s first father-son governorship. The two had earlier become the first father and son to ...
A primary election to determine the Republican and Democratic nominees for governor was held on May 22, 2007, in which Fletcher and Beshear won their respective primaries. [1] Steve Beshear's son Andy was elected Kentucky's State Attorney General in 2015 [2] and Kentucky's Governor in 2019 and 2023.
On 8 December 2015, his final day in office, outgoing Kentucky governor Steve Beshear issued 197 pardons, [44] including a pardon for Bishop. [45] A 14-year-old Oklahoma teenager, Cole Peyton, was shot in the back and arm while playing "ding dong ditch" in the early hours of New Year's Day of 2016. [46] [47]