HISTORY OF KENTUCKY Allen, 1892

At the first election under the Constitution, Kentucky, as a State, had no voice. George Washington was elected, by a unanimous vote of the Electors, President of the United States, and John Adams Vice President by a plurality of one vote over all other of his opponents.

The Constitution then provided that he who received the highest electoral vote should be President, and the next highest Vice President.

But at the fourth Presidential election, in 1801, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr having each received an equal number of votes, the choice devolved upon the House of Representatives.

The House having balloted at intervals for seven consecutive days, on the afternoon of the 17th day of February, 1802, on the 36th ballot, Thomas Jefferson was declared duly elected President of the United States.

This result was occasioned by Delaware and South Carolina voting blank, while the votes of Vermont and Maryland were given for Mr. Jefferson. The Vice Presidency, as a matter of course, devolved on Aaron Burr.

After this, the Constitution was so amended as to provide that Electors, in casting their votes, should vote for President and Vice President separately, so as to avoid in future a recurrence of the difficulty.

At the second Presidential election, 1793, George Washington was again unanimously elected President, and John Adams re-elected Vice-President by a plurality of votes.

The Electors for Kentucky that year were R C Anderson, Charles Scott, Benjamin Logan, and Notley Conn, who voted for George Washington for President and Thomas Jefferson for Vice President, which were the only votes cast for Jefferson in that election, even Virginia voting for George Clinton, of New York.

At the third Presidential election, 1797, John Adams was elected President, having received seventy-one of the one hundred and forty electoral votes, and Thomas Jefferson, Vice-President, he having received sixty-eight votes, the next highest number.

The Electors for Kentucky that year were Stephen Ormsby, Caleb Wallace, Isaac Shelby and John Coburn, all of whom cast their votes for Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.

At the fourth Presidential election, 1801, Thomas Jefferson was elected President and Aaron Burr Vice President. The Electors for Kentucky that year were John Coburn, Charles Scott, John Pope and Isaac Shelby, all of whom cast their votes for Jefferson and Burr.

At the fifth Presidential election, 1805, Thomas Jefferson was re-elected President and George Clinton Vice President. The Electors for Kentucky that year were Charles Scott, Isaac Shelby, John Coburn, Ninian Edwards, Hubbard Taylor, Joseph Lewis, William Irvine, and William Roberts, all of whom cast their votes for Jefferson and Clinton.

At the sixth Presidential election, 1809, James Madison was elected President and George Clinton Vice President. The Electors for Kentucky that year were Samuel Hopkins, Charles Scott, William Logan, Robert Trimble, Matthew Walton, Hubbard Taylor, Robert Ewing, and Christopher Greenup, all of whom cast their votes for Madison and Clinton.

At the seventh Presidential election, 1813, James Madison was re-elected President and Elbridge Gerry Vice President. The Electors for Kentucky that year were Robert Ewing, William Irvine, William Casey, Robert Mosby, Samuel Murrell, Hubbard Taylor, Samuel Caldwell, Duvall Payne, Richard Taylor, Walker Baylor, William Logan, and T D Owings, all of whom voted for Madison and Gerry.

At the eighth Presidential election, 1817, James Monroe was elected President and Daniel D Tompkins Vice President. The Electors for Kentucky that year were Duval Payne, Richard Taylor, Hubbard Taylor, William Logan, Robert Trimble, Alexander Adair, Thomas Bodley, Samuel Caldwell, Willie A Lee, Samuel Murrell, William Irvine, and Robert Ewing, all of whom cast their votes for Monroe and Tompkins.

At the ninth Presidential election, 1821, James Monroe and Daniel D Tompkins were re-elected a second term to the same offices. The Electors for Kentucky that year were Samuel Murrell, Martin B Hardin, E M Ewing, Willis A Lee, Samuel Caldwell, James Johnson, John E King, Jesse Blidsoe, John Pope, Thomas Bodley, Richard Taylor, and Hubbard Taylor, all of whom cast their votes for Monroe and Tompkins.

At the tenth Presidential election, 1825, John Quincy Adams was elected President and John C Calhoun Vice President. The election of the President in this instance devolved on the House of Representatives, no one of the aspirants at the time having received a majority of all the electoral votes cast.

The candidates were Adams, Jackson, Crawford, and Clay. The result was the election of Adams.

The Electors for Kentucky that year were J R Underwood, Richard Taylor, John E King, Joseph Allen, Andrew McLean, W Moore, Young Ewing, Thomas Bodley, Benjamin Letcher, D Payne, James Smiley, J J Crittenden, Joshua Fry, and H Taylor.

The Electoral College of Kentucky cast her entire vote for Henry Clay for President, and seven voted for John C Calhoun for Vice President and seven for Nathan Sanford.

At the eleventh Presidential election, 1829, Andrew Jackson was elected President and John C Calhoun Vice President.

The Electors for Kentucky that year were Thomas S Slaughter, Reuben Munday, Matthew Lyon, Benjamin Chapeze, Edmund Watkins, John Younger, Nathan Gaither, John Sterrett, Tunstall Quarles, Benjamin Taylor, Robert J Ward, Richard French, Tandy Allen, and Thompson Ward.

The entire electoral vote of Kentucky was cast for Jackson and Calhoun.

At the twelfth Presidential election, 1833, Andrew Jackson was re-elected President and Martin Van Buren Vice President.

The Electors for Kentucky that year were Joseph Eve, Alney McLean, Ben. Hardin, W K Wall, M P Marshall, J L Hickman, M V Thompson, William Owsley, Burr Harrison, Thomas Chilton, John J Marshall, D S Patton, E M Ewing, Martin Beatty, and Thompson M Ewing.

The electoral vote of Kentucky was cast for Henry Clay for President and John Sargent for Vice President At the thirteenth Presidential election, 1837, Martin Van Buren was elected President and Richard M Johnson Vice President.

The Electors for Kentucky that year were Burr Harrison, Thomas P Wilson, Henry Daniel, William E Wall, Philip Triplett, Robert Wickliffe, D S Patton, Thomas Metcalfe, E Rumsey, M P Marshall, Richard A Buckner, J F Ballinger, Christopher Tompkins, Robert P Letcher, and martin Beatty.

The entire vote of Kentucky was cast for William Henry Harrison for President and Francis Granger for Vice President.

At the fourteenth election of President, 1841, William Henry Harrison was elected President and John Tyler Vice President.

The Electors for President that year were Kentucky were Richard A Buckner, Charles G Wintersmith, James T Morehead, Thomas W Riley, Robert Patterson, William H Field, Iredell Hart, Daniel Breck, james W Irwin, R H Menefee, B Y Owsley, M P Marshall, James Harlan, A Beatty, and W W Southgate.

The entire electoral vote of Kentucky was cast for Harrison and Tyler.

At the fifteenth Presidential election, 1845, James K Polk was elected President and George M Dallas Vice President.

The Electors for Kentucky that year were Philip Triplett, Green Adams, B M Crenshaw, W W Southgate, Ben. Hardin, W R Grigsby, Jo. R Underwood, W J Graham, R A Patterson, Leslie Combs, John Kincaid, and L W Andrews.

The entire electoral vote was cast for Henry Clay for President and Theodore Frelinghuysen for Vice President.

At the sixteenth Presidential election, 1849, Zachary Taylor was elected President and Millard Fillmore Vice President. The electors for Kentucky that year were Archibald Dixon, M V Thompson, L Lindsay, J L Johnson, F E McLean, William Chenault, Thomas W Lisle, M D McHenry, B R Young, Leslie Combs, A Trumbo, and W C Marshall.

The entire electoral vote of Kentucky was cast for Taylor and Fillmore.

At the seventeenth Presidential election, 1853, Franklin Pierce was elected President and William R King Vice President. The Electors for Kentucky that year were Joshua F Bell, Chas. S Morehead, L Anderson, J S McFarland, John G Rogers, Thomas E Bramlette, John L Helm, C F Burnam, Thomas F Marshall, S J Rodman, L M Cox, and Thomas B Stephenson.

The vote of Kentucky was cast for Winfield Scott and William A Graham.

At the eighteenth Presidential election, 1857, James Buchanan was elected President and John C Breckinridge Vice President.

The Electors for Kentucky that year were Elijah Hise, J A Finn, J W Stephenson, Timoleon Cravens, J T Hawkins, B Magoffin, George W Williams, Ben. F Rice, William D Reed, R W Woolley, R H Stanton, and Hiram Kelsey.

The vote of Kentucky was cast for Millard Fillmore and A J Donelson.

At the nineteenth Presidential election, 1861, Abraham Lincoln was elected President and Hannibal Hamlin Vice President. The Electors for Kentucky that year were W H Wadsworth, E L Vanwinkle, Q Q Quigley, S A Seavell, William Sampson, W A Hoskins, Phil. Lee, William M Fulkerson, William C Bullock, John M Harlan, John B Huston, and W S Rankin, who cast the vote of Kentucky for John Bell for President and Edward Everett for Vice President.

At the twentieth Presidential election, 1865, Abraham Lincoln was re-elected President and Andrew Johnson Vice President. The Electors for Kentucky were Frank Wolford, Thomas F Marshall, T A Duke, B C Ritter, T C Winfrey, J P Barbour, W F Bullock, A H Ward, George S Shanklin, W A Hoskins, and Harrison Taylor, who cast the vote of Kentucky for George B M'Clellan for President and George H Pendleton for Vice President.

At the twenty-first Presidential election, 1869, Ulysses S Grant was elected President and Schuyler Colfax Vice President. The Electors for Kentucky in that year were Jesse D Bright, Frank Wolford, J M Bigger, A K Brandley, W W Bush, A H Field, Boyd Winchester, A B Chambers, George W Craddock, Harrison Cockrill and John M Rice, who cast the vote of Kentucky for Horatio Seymour for President and F P Blair for Vice President.

The Speakers of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States from the State of Kentucky, since her admission into the Union as a separate State, are as follows, viz:

The increased population of Kentucky has not been as great in the last ten years as we might reasonably have expected when we consider the vast amount of land within her bounds and the great extent of her mineral wealth.

Whilst her increase has been but a little more than fourteen per cent., Missouri has increased forty-two per cent. and Illinois forty-seven per cent., and the new States and Territories in still a much larger proportion.

The greatest increase of the population of Kentucky has been in the cities.

The counties which exhibit the greatest ratio of increase are Ballard, Butler, Campbell, Daviess, Estill, Grant, Grayson, Hancock, Henderson, Hickman, Jefferson, Kenton, Letcher, McCracken, Madison, Marshall, Ohio, Pendleton, and Pike.

Jefferson County increased 58,325 in the last twenty years, whilst the increase of the city of Louisville in the same time was 56,564. While the increase of Fayette County in twenty years was only 177, the city of Lexington increased from 7,920 to 14, 856.

In the same length of time, Clarke County has lost 801 in population, Harrison 187, Jessamine 1,611, Mason 217, Mercer 922, Scott 2,439, Owen 3,865, Shelby 1,362 and Woodford 4,183.

Anderson, Barren, Bath, Boone, Bracken, Caldwell, Fleming, Gallatin, Henry, Montgomery, Morgan, Nicholas, Spencer, Trimble, and Washington have lost in population, and all the other counties except those above specified have increased at a low rate.

Kentucky is naturally rich in the fertility of her lands and in the abundance of her minerals, but fails to attract population in many parts in consequence of a lack of the means of communication which rivers and railroads are sure to afford.

Upon an examination of the map of Kentucky, it may be seen, that, where manufactures and improvements exist to great extent, the population has increased; otherwise, the population has decreased.