Governor Stevenson

ID: 2500
This file appears in: A Kentucky Governor

Preston Leslie became Kentucky's governor when John W. Stevenson, pictured here, resigned to take a US Senate seat. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: 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…