James Garrard
Miller, Politician
1749 – 1822
Who was James Garrard?
James Garrard was a farmer and Baptist minister who served as the second governor of Kentucky from 1796 to 1804. Because of term limits imposed by the state constitution adopted in 1799, he was the last Kentucky governor elected to two consecutive terms until the restriction was eased by a 1992 amendment, allowing Paul E. Patton's re-election in 1999.
After serving in the Revolutionary War, Garrard moved west to the part of Virginia that is now Bourbon County, Kentucky. He held several local political offices and represented the area in the Virginia House of Delegates. He was chosen as a delegate to five of the ten statehood conventions that secured Kentucky's separation from Virginia and helped write the state's first constitution. Garrard was among the delegates who unsuccessfully tried to exclude guarantees of the continuance of slavery from the document. In 1795, he sought to succeed Isaac Shelby as governor. In a three-way race, Benjamin Logan received a plurality, but not a majority, of the electoral votes cast.
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- Born
- Jan 14, 1749
Stafford County - Spouses
- Elizabeth Mountjoy
(1769/12/20 - )
- Elizabeth Mountjoy
- Religion
- Baptists
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Jan 19, 1822
Bourbon County
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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