Robert P. Letcher

ID: 908
This file appears in: County Named, 1842

Portrait of Governor Letcher, who served from 1840-1844. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: County Named, 1842

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #809 in Letcher County notes the namesake of the county, Governor Robert Perkins Letcher. Letcher was born in Goochland County, Virginia, in 1788. His family moved to Garrard…