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Kentucky's 8th Congressional District
Kentucky's 8th congressional district was a List of United States Congressional districts, district of the United States House of Representatives in Kentucky. It was lost to redistricting in 1963. Its last Representative was Eugene Siler. List of members representing the district References * * Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present
* Redistricting in the United States {{coord, 36, 50, N, 84, 00, W, region:US-KY_scale:1000000, display=title Congressional districts of Kentucky, 08 Former congressional districts of the United States Constituencies established in 1813 1813 establishments in Kentucky Constituencies disestablished in 1933 1933 disestablishments in Kentucky Constituencies established in 1935 1935 establishments in Kentucky Constituencies disestablished in 1963 1963 disestablishments in Kentucky John C. Breckinridge ...
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List Of United States Congressional Districts
Congressional districts in the United States are electoral divisions for the purpose of electing members of the United States House of Representatives. The number of voting seats within the House of Representatives is currently set at 435, with each one representing an average of 761,169 people following the 2020 United States census. The number of voting seats has applied since 1913, excluding a temporary increase to 437 after the admissions of Alaska and Hawaii. The total number of state members is capped by the Reapportionment Act of 1929.Public Law 62-5 of 1911, though Congress has the authority to change that number. In addition, each of the five inhabited Insular area, U.S. territories and the federal district of Washington, D.C., Washington, D. C., sends a Non-voting members of the United States House of Representatives, non-voting delegate to the House of Representatives. The United States Census Bureau, Bureau of the Census conducts a constitutionally mandated United ...
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Wingfield Bullock
Wingfield Bullock (1766October 13, 1821) was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. Born in 1766 in Spotsylvania, Virginia, Bullock studied law. He moved to Kentucky. He served as member of the Kentucky Senate from Shelby County from 1812 to 1814. Bullock was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress (March 4, 1821 – October 13, 1821). He died on October 13, 1821, in Shelbyville, Kentucky. He was interred in an old burying ground near Shelbyville. See also *List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899) The following is a list of United States United States Senate, senators and United States House of Representatives, representatives who died of natural or accidental causes, or who killed themselves, while serving their terms between 1790 and 18 ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Bullock, Wingfield 1766 births 1821 deaths Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Kentuck ...
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Green County, Kentucky
Green County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Its county seat and only municipality is Greensburg. Green was a prohibition or dry county until 2015. History Green County was formed in 1792 from portions of Lincoln and Nelson Counties. Green was the 16th Kentucky county in order of formation. The county is named for Revolutionary War hero General Nathanael Greene, but the reason why the final E is missing is unknown. Three courthouses have served Green County. In 1804, a brick building replaced an earlier log structure, and while no longer operational, it stands in the Downtown Greensburg Historic District as the oldest courthouse building in the commonwealth. The present courthouse dates from 1931. The Cumberland Trace runs through Green County. This early road started in Lincoln County, Kentucky, and went to Nashville. (1) Three counties (Cumberland, Adair, Taylor) were formed entirely from Green County, along with a portion of four more (Pulaski, Ba ...
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Cumberland County, Kentucky
Cumberland County is a county located in the Pennyroyal Plateau region of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,888. Its county seat is Burkesville. The county was formed in 1798 and named for the Cumberland River, which in turn may have been named after the Duke of Cumberland or the English county of Cumberland. History Cumberland County was created in 1798 from land given by Green County. In 1829, the first commercial oil well in the United States was dug three miles north of Burkesville. It is usually not recognized as a commercial well because the drillers were looking for salt brine, but the oil was bottled and sold. It was the first county in the United States to elect a female sheriff, Pearl Carter Pace. Burkesville is the first town downstream from Wolf Creek Dam, so it is considered flood-proof, but there have been concerns about leaks at the dam. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed repairs in 2013. Geography According t ...
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Casey County, Kentucky
Casey County is a county located in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 15,941. Its county seat is Liberty. The county was formed in 1806 from the western part of Lincoln County and named for Colonel William Casey, a pioneer settler who moved his family to Kentucky in 1779. It is the only Kentucky county entirely in the Knobs region. Casey County is home to annual Casey County Apple Festival. It is considered part of the Appalachian region of Kentucky. History Casey County was established in 1806 from land given by Lincoln County. The third and present courthouse was built in 1889. In 2015, County Clerk Casey Davis received national press when he announced he would deny same-sex marriage licenses, as a show of solidarity with fellow county clerk Kim Davis (no relation), who was criticized and later jailed for doing the same thing in Rowan County, Kentucky. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a ...
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Adair County, Kentucky
Adair County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 18,903. Its county seat and only municipality is Columbia. The county was founded in 1801 and named for John Adair, then Speaker of the House in Kentucky and later Governor of Kentucky (1820 – 1824). Adair County has some of the few surviving American Chestnut trees in the United States. History Adair County was formed on December 11, 1801, from sections of Green County. Columbia was chosen as the county seat the following year and the first courthouse was built in 1806. The county was named in honor of John Adair, a veteran of the Revolutionary War and Northwest Indian War. Later he commanded Kentucky troops in the Battle of New Orleans. He served as the eighth Governor of Kentucky. This was the 44th of Kentucky's 120 counties to be organized. After the American Civil War, a gang of five men, believed to include Frank and Jesse James from Missouri, robbed the ...
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1827 United States House Of Representatives Elections In Kentucky
Kentucky elected its members August 6, 1827, after the term began but before the new Congress convened. See also * 1826 Kentucky's 5th congressional district special election * 1826 Kentucky's 12th congressional district special election * 1827 Kentucky's 11th congressional district special elections * 1826 and 1827 United States House of Representatives elections * List of United States representatives from Kentucky Notes 1827 Kentucky United States House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives is a chamber of the Bicameralism, bicameral United States Congress; it is the lower house, with the U.S. Senate being the upper house. Together, the House and Senate have the authority under Artic ...
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1824 United States House Of Representatives Elections In Kentucky
Kentucky elected its members August 2, 1824. See also * 1825 Kentucky's 3rd congressional district special election * 1824 and 1825 United States House of Representatives elections * List of United States representatives from Kentucky Notes 1824 Kentucky United States House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives is a chamber of the Bicameralism, bicameral United States Congress; it is the lower house, with the U.S. Senate being the upper house. Together, the House and Senate have the authority under Artic ...
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1822 United States House Of Representatives Elections In Kentucky
Kentucky gained two seats in reapportionment following the 1820 United States census. Kentucky elected its members August 5, 1822. See also * 1822 and 1823 United States House of Representatives elections * List of United States representatives from Kentucky Notes 1822 Kentucky United States House of Representatives The United States House of Representatives is a chamber of the Bicameralism, bicameral United States Congress; it is the lower house, with the U.S. Senate being the upper house. Together, the House and Senate have the authority under Artic ...
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Greensburg, Kentucky
Greensburg is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Green County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 2,163 at the 2010 census, down from 2,396 at the 2000 census. The Downtown Greensburg Historic District is on the National Register of Historic Places and includes the oldest courthouse west of the Allegheny Mountains. Geography Greensburg is located east of the center of Green County at (37.259665, -85.497863), on the north side of the Green River, a west-flowing tributary of the Ohio River. U.S. Route 68 passes through the city as Main Street; it leads northeast to Campbellsville and southwest to Edmonton. Kentucky Route 61 joins US 68 on Main Street through Greensburg; KY 61 leads northwest to Elizabethtown and southeast to Columbia. According to the United States Census Bureau, Greensburg has a total area of , of which , or 0.59%, is water. Climate The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool ...
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Richard Aylett Buckner
Richard Aylett Buckner (February 5, 1784 – December 8, 1847) was a lawyer and farmer who served United States representative from Kentucky as well as Surveyor-General of Kentucky and Kentucky judge of the 18th judicial district. He may be best known as the father of Aylette Buckner who also served a Representative from Kentucky, or as the eldest of three American judges of the same name. Another of the judges was his son Richard Aylett Buckner (1810–1900), who helped keep Kentucky in the Union, or his grandson Richard Aylett Buckner (1849–) who became an Arkansas state senator. Early and family life Born in Fauquier County, Virginia to the former Judith Thornton and her husband Aylett Buckner. His paternal ancestors had emigrated from England more than a century before, and his father was named to honor his maternal grandfather. His father served in the Fauquier militia, then the Virginia Line as an officer during the Revolutionary War, and owned 11 adult slaves and 17 yo ...
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1821 Kentucky's 8th Congressional District Special Election
On October 13, 1821, before the first meeting of the 17th Congress, Wingfield Bullock (DR) of died. A special election was held to fill the resulting vacancy. Election result Breckinridge took his seat on January 2, 1822, footnote 15 a month into the 1st Session of the 17th Congress. See also *List of special elections to the United States House of Representatives Below is a list of special elections to the United States House of Representatives. Such elections are called by state governors to fill vacancies that occur when a member of the House of Representatives dies or resigns before the biennial genera ... References {{Elections in Kentucky footer 8th congressional district special election Kentucky 08 1821 08 Kentucky 1821 08 Kentucky 1821 08 United States House of Representatives 1821 08 ...
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