Robert P. Letcher

ID: 908
This file appears in: County Named, 1842
Robert P. Letcher

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 County, Kentucky, about twelve years later. As a…