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Steven Lynn Beshear (/ b ə ˈ ʃ ɪər / bə-SHEER; born September 21, 1944) is an American attorney and politician who served as the 61st governor of Kentucky from 2007 to 2015. He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1974 to 1980, was the state's 44th attorney general from 1980 to 1983 and was the 49th lieutenant governor ...
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 ...
Andrew Graham Beshear (/ b ə ˈ ʃ ɪər / bə-SHEER; [1] born November 29, 1977) is an American attorney and politician serving since 2019 as the 63rd governor of Kentucky. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 50th attorney general of Kentucky from 2016 to 2019. [2] He is the son of former Kentucky governor Steve Beshear.
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.
Gov. Steve Beshear in 2008 at a Louisville event with his son, Andy, who then was a lawyer in Louisville. Winning school teachers’ loyalty. Steve Beshear also won praise during his eight years ...
Gov. Andy Beshear gives a speech to a crowd of more than 100 at Dreaming Creek Brewery in downtown Richmond. While Steve Beshear has been somewhat involved, the current governor’s re-election ...
The 2011 Kentucky gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 2011, to elect the governor of Kentucky and the lieutenant governor of Kentucky.Incumbent Democrat Steve Beshear won re-election, defeating Republican challenger David L. Williams, then the president of the state senate, and Gatewood Galbraith, an independent candidate.
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.