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Steve Beshear was born on September 21, ... After winning the Democratic primary, he defeated Republican nominee Ron Snyder by a vote of 471,177 to 302,951. [14]
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).
The only Republican before Bevin to run for reelection, Ernie Fletcher, was defeated by Democrat Steve Beshear in 2007 (Steve Beshear is the father of Bevin's Democratic challenger, Andy). Bevin was the second Republican governor of Kentucky in the last 50 years.
Steve Beshear (D) Drexell R. Davis (D) James B. Graham (D) Alben W. Barkley II (D) 29D, 9R 75D, 25R Reagan/ Bush (R) 1981 1982 76D, 24R 1983 1984 Martha Layne Collins (D) Steve Beshear (D) Drexell R. Davis (D) David L. Armstrong (D) Frances Jones Mills (D) Mary Ann Tobin (D) David Boswell (D) 28D, 10R 1985 74D, 26R [w] Mitch McConnell (R) 1986 ...
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 ...
The 45-year-old Beshear, son of former Kentucky governor Steve Beshear, is the first Democratic governor to win reelection in the commonwealth since 2011, when his father accomplished the same feat.
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 is the incumbent Democrat whose profile rose locally and nationally as he led the state in its COVID-19 response and through the aftermath of several tragedies and natural disasters — or ...