John Marshall Harlan

ID: 2501
This file appears in: A Kentucky Governor

Leslie defeated future Supreme Court justice John Marshall Harlan, pictured here, in the 1871 governor's race. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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…