Governor Leslie

ID: 2499

This file appears in: A Kentucky Governor

Leslie's governor portrait hangs in the Hall of Governors at the Kentucky Historical Society. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: A Kentucky Governor

A Kentucky Governor

By Tim Talbott

Historical Marker #1085 in Clinton County notes the location of the birthplace Preston Hopkins Leslie, Kentucky's twenty-sixth governor. Leslie was born on March 8, 1819, in what was then Wayne County. As a teenager, Leslie worked various…