James Garrard
American politician (1749-1822) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 73
James Garrard was an American farmer, Baptist minister and politician who served as the second governor of Kentucky from 1796 to 1804.
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Mount Lebanon, Garrard's Bourbon County estate
Thomas Todd, one of the candidates in the 1795 gubernatorial election
Kentucky's first governor's mansion was constructed during Garrard's first term.
Garrard's son William introduced legislation to call a constitutional convention.
Thomas Jefferson's acquisition of Louisiana was hailed by Garrard as a "noble achievement".About this person
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.
