• Thomas Metcalfe served in both houses of the Kentucky General Assembly, in both houses of the U.S. Congress, and as Governor of Kentucky?
• although he failed to win the office himself in 1883, Thomas Z. Morrow's brother-in-law and son were both elected governor of Kentucky in 1895 and 1919, respectively?
• political opponents of Kentucky governor Thomas Metcalfe nicknamed him "Old Stone Hammer" because they felt his previous work as a stonemason was a background unbecoming a governor?
• Parker Watkins Hardin became the first Democrat to be defeated in a Kentucky gubernatorial election against a Republican candidate, losing to William O'Connell Bradley in 1895?
• Kentucky governor William S. Taylor was implicated in the assassination of William Goebel, his political rival, and fled to Indiana to avoid indictment?
• Kentucky Governor Joseph Desha pardoned his son Isaac after he had twice been convicted of murder?
• Kentucky governor Flem D. Sampson declined the Du Pont family's offer to purchase Cumberland Falls and donate it to the state for a state park?
• Kentucky governor Ruby Laffoon bestowed the honorary title of "Kentucky colonel" the most times in the state's history, including KFC founder "Colonel" Harland Sanders?
• Ernie Fletcher became the first Republican Governor of Kentucky in thirty-two years after winning the 2003 Kentucky gubernatorial election?

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Preston Leslie

• the territorial governor of Montana Preston Leslie pardoned a prostitute convicted of grand larceny because the penitentiary was not equipped to accommodate women?