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Breckinridge County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.As of the 2020 census, the population was 20,432. [1] Its county seat is Hardinsburg, Kentucky. [2] The county was named for John Breckinridge (1760–1806), a Kentucky Attorney General, state legislator, United States Senator, and United States Attorney General.
McDaniels was with Captain William Hardin, John Jolly, Christopher Bush and Sinclair when they came to Breckinridge County in 1779. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] When John Bruner and William McDaniels first came to Hardin's Fort, they brought their wives, an African-American slave, and a baby, and their possessions down the Ohio River by flatboat to settle in ...
Donald Joseph Gedling (December 9, 1939 – December 4, 2024) was an American politician who was the County Clerk for Breckinridge County, Kentucky and a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1984 to 1995, representing the 18th district. He was also a tobacco farmer from Breckinridge County, Kentucky. [1]
Wright would later serve as Chairman of the Breckinridge County School Board. [4] In 2012, he was appointed by Governor Steve Beshear to the Kentucky Tax Reform Commission. He was also chairman of the Meade County Riverport Authority, a member of the Kentucky State Fair Board, and the Kentucky Council for Agricultural Research, Extension and ...
Richard Stephens (September 7, 1755 – died July 2, 1831) was an American Revolutionary War soldier, politician, slave-plantation owner and Breckinridge County, Kentucky, pioneer. He is the namesake of Stephensport, Kentucky, a river town and port along the Ohio River. [1]
Among their children was William Hardin Jr., born in 1781, who was a member of the legislature of Kentucky and postmaster in Frankfort for many years. After Winifred died in 1807, in 1808 Hardin married Susannah McGhee (McGee) in Breckinridge County. Susannah and William had two daughters: Hannah Ann and Lucinda.
Joseph Holt was born in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, on January 6, 1807. He was educated at St. Joseph's College in Bardstown, Kentucky and Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. He settled in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and set up a law office in town. He married Mary Harrison and moved to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1832.
1988 Butler was initially elected in the 1988 Democratic Primary and November 8, 1988, general election, and re-elected in the general elections of November 6, 1990, and November 3, 1992.