Governors' Biographies


Learn more about the five men through whom Civil War Governors of Kentucky explores the lives of many thousands of everyday Americans in wartime Kentucky and beyond.

Governors of Kentucky

Beriah Magoffin (1859-1862)

James F. Robinson (1862-1863)

Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867)

 

Provisional Confederate Governors of Kentucky

George W. Johnson (1861-1862)

Richard Hawes (1862-1865)