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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]
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.
Incumbent Democratic governor Steve Beshear was ineligible to run for a third term due to term limits. [2] Primary elections were held on May 19, 2015. [1] Despite trailing in most pre-election polls, Republican nominee Matt Bevin defeated Democratic nominee Jack Conway by a margin of 52.5% to 43.8% in the general election. Statewide turnout in ...
Beshear, the son of former two-term Gov. Steve Beshear, has won three tough elections in ruby red Kentucky — once for attorney general and twice for governor. The McConnell-Beshear rivalry dates ...
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 ...