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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
A Kentucky Governor
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…