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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]
Steve Beshear, 79, first took state office as a legislator in 1974 and was defeated in a heated 1987 Democratic primary in his first run for governor (he also lost a 1996 Senate race).
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 ...
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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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...