John J. Crittenden

ID: 2309

This file appears in: Eminent Statesman/Crittenden House

Among other national and state political offices, Crittenden was Kentucky's governor from 1848-1850. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Eminent Statesman/Crittenden House

Eminent Statesman/Crittenden House

By Tim Talbott

Historical Marker #1154 in Frankfort notes the home of Kentucky statesman John Jordan Crittenden. John J. Crittenden was one of Kentucky's most accomplished and well respected politicians of the nineteenth century. His reputation came, in…