* 1869 – Ruby Laffoon, 43rd Governor of Kentucky ( d. 1941 )

The Governor of Kentucky awards the garland and the trophy.

* Ruby Laffoon ( 1869 – 1941 ), 43rd Governor of Kentucky

* 1944 – Steve Beshear, American politician, 61st Governor of Kentucky

* January 30 – Governor William Goebel of Kentucky shot by several assassins.

** Governor William Goebel of Kentucky dies of wounds after being shot by several assassins on January 30.

In 1777, Henry Hamilton, the British Lieutenant Governor of Canada, began to recruit American Indian war parties to raid the settlements in Kentucky.

It is named in honor of Isaac Shelby, Governor of Kentucky.

Shelby County was established on February 7, 1818, and it was named for the Revolutionary War hero and the first Governor of Kentucky, Isaac Shelby ( 1750 – 1826 ).

Its name honors Isaac Shelby, the first Governor of Kentucky.

* " Excerpts from the Executive Journal of Governor James Garrod ," Kentucky Historical Society Register, vol.

Its name is in honor of Isaac Shelby, the first Governor of Kentucky.

It was named after General Isaac Shelby, a hero in the American Revolutionary War and the first Governor of Kentucky.

* Isaac Shelby ( 1750-1826 ), first and fifth Governor of Kentucky

He raised one thousand men, nominally part of the militia brigade under Kentucky Governor Isaac Shelby, but largely operating independently.

He also ran as an independent candidate for Governor of Kentucky in 1848, but after talking with the Democratic candidate, Lazarus W. Powell, who had replaced Linn Boyd on the ticket, Johnson decided to drop out and back Powell.

Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, serving from 1855 to 1856.

It was named for Isaac Shelby, a soldier from Tennessee during the American Revolution, and first Governor of Kentucky.

Shelby County was named for Governor Isaac Shelby ( 1750 – 1826 ) of Kentucky.

Founded upon statehood in 1907, Beckham County was named for J. C. W. Beckham, who was Governor of Kentucky, and as the first popularly elected member of the United States Senate from Kentucky ( there was also a short lived sister-county counterpart, Beckham County, Kentucky from February 9, 1904, to April 29, 1904, was dissolved by the Kentucky Court of Appeals because it was not created in conformance with state law ).

The county was organized January 2, 1835 and named for Governor Isaac Shelby of Kentucky.

The county was named by Alexander Doniphan to honor John Caldwell, who participated in the George Rogers Clark Native American Campaign of 1786 and was the second Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky.

* Little Sandy River – Greenup, Kentucky

* Willow Island Dam, Ohio, to Greenup Dam, Kentucky ( including the Kanawha River ) ( click to see report )

* Greenup County, Kentucky ( south )

* Greenup County, Kentucky ( southwest )

Pike County, Johnson County, and Greenup County are the only eastern Kentucky counties that are not among the 100 poorest counties by median household income in the United States.

In about 1798 Boone moved to the mouth of the Little Sandy River at the current Greenup, Kentucky.

Greenup County is a county located in the U. S. state of Kentucky.

Greenup County was formed by an act of the General Assembly of Kentucky on December 12, 1803 from Mason County which covered the majority of eastern Kentucky at the time.

* Richard Whitt, 1944 to 2009, from Beauty Ridge, investigative reporter & author-Pulitzer Prize 1978, University of Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame 1995, Inducted into Greenup County Schools Hall Of Fame 2009

A view of the intersection of U. S. 23, Kentucky Route 10 | KY 10, & Ohio State Route 253 | Ohio SR 253 just after crossing the Jesse Stuart Memorial Bridge in Greenup

Since its completion in 1995, the AA Highway has allowed Greenup residents to more easily travel to Maysville, Kentucky as well as Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio.

Like most eastern Kentucky counties, Greenup County is predominantly made up of rolling hills and valleys.

It comprised a much larger area than the present-day Bourbon County ; the rest of its former territory is now divided among the following present-day Kentucky counties: Bracken, Boone, Campbell, Clark, Estill, Fleming, Floyd, Greenup, Harrison, Kenton, Mason, Montgomery, Lewis, Nicholas, Pendleton, Powell, and Robertson.

Bellefonte is a residential city in Greenup County, Kentucky, United States.

Category: Populated places in Greenup County, Kentucky

Flatwoods is a suburban city of the larger and nearby Ashland, Kentucky, although located in a different county as Ashland, in Greenup County, Kentucky, United States.

Category: Populated places in Greenup County, Kentucky

Greenup is a city in Greenup County, Kentucky, at the confluence of the Ohio and Little Sandy Rivers.

The name was shortened to Greenup in March 1872 to avoid confusion with Greensburg, Kentucky.