KY-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest 24 May 2000 Volume 00 : Issue 194 ______________________________X-Message: #1 Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 12:10:27 -0500 From: Nancy Trice Subject: OBIT: Bowles, 1935-2000, Hopkins Co OBITS: The Messenger, Sunday, 16 Apr 2000 Wanda Jean Bowles, 64, of Madisonville, died Friday, 14 Apr 2000 at RMC. Born 22 Jun 1935 in Madisonville, d/o late John William Eades and Mamie Juanita Webster Eades. Preceded in death by husband, Ronnie David Bowles on 8 Jan 1997. Member of Life Center Church in Madisonville. Survived by: sons, Stephen L Bowles of Fla and Ed Bowles of Miss; sister, Lois Johnson of Coweta Ok; 6 grch. Services Tuesday at Harris Funeral Home in Madisonville, Rev. Ronnie Hendricks officiating. Burial Odd Fellows Cemetery, Madisonville. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 15:38:35 -0500 From: Nancy Trice Subject: HISTORY: First Officers of Ky HISTORY OF KENTUCKY, Wm B Allen, 1872 page 65 In December, 1791, the tenth and last Convention was elected, and in April following met at Danville and formed the first Constitution, which, being adopted, the officers under it were elected in May, 1792. The first Governor of Kentucky elected under the new Constitution was Isaac Shelby. Alexander Bullitt was chosen Speaker of the Senate, and Robert Breckinridge, Spreaker of the House of Representatives. James Brown was the first Secretary of State, and George Nicholas the first Attorney General. John Brown and John Edwards, when the Legislature met, were elected, by joint ballot, Senators to Congress. Frankfort and Danville each contended for the seat of Government. Commissioners were chosen by joint ballot, empowered to fix upon the capital, and Frankfort was selected. Several ineffectual attempts to remove it since that time have been made. Louisville has been most prominent in her efforts, and has offered greater inducements than any other place heretofore proposed. I think it probably, however, that when the Ohio and Cumberland Railroad shall be completed, that Lebanon, being centrally situated and accessible from every quarter of the State, and besides growing to be a city of no inconsiderable importance, may calculate, with better reason than any other place, on being designated as the future capital of Kentucky, if it is removed at all. ______________________________X-Message: #3 Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 00:42:11 -0500 From: Nancy Trice Subject: HISTORY: History of Kentucky, Allen, 1792, pg 163 HISTORY OF KENTUCKY Allen, 1892 ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT IN KENTUCKY FROM THE TIME OF HER ADMISSION INTO THE UNION AS A SEPARATE STATE page 163 At the first election under the Constitution, Kentucky, as a State, had no voice. George Washington was elected, by a unanimous vote of the Electors, President of the United States, and John Adams Vice President by a plurality of one vote over all other of his opponents. The Constitution then provided that he who received the highest electoral vote should be President, and the next highest Vice President. But at the fourth Presidential election, in 1801, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr having each received an equal number of votes, the choice devolved upon the House of Representatives. The House having balloted at itervals for seven consecutive days, on the afternoon of the 17th day of February, 1802, on the 36th ballot, Thomas Jefferson was declared duly elected President of the United States. This result was occasioned by Delaware and South Carolina voting blank, while the votes of Vermont and Maryland were given for Mr. Jefferson. The Vice Presidency, as a matter of course, devolved on Aaron Burr. After this, the Constitution was so amended as to provide that Electors, in casting their votes, should vote for President and Vice President separately, so as to avoid in future a recurrence of the difficulty. At the second Presidential election, 1793, George Washington was again unanimously elected President, and John Adams re-elected Vice-President by a plurality of votes. The Electors for Kentucky that year were R C Anderson, Charles Scott, Benjamin Logan, and Notley Conn, who voted for George Washington for President and Thomas Jefferson for Vice President, which were the only votes cast for Jefferson in that election, even Virginia voting for George Clinton, of New York. At the third Presdidential election, 1797, John Adams was elected President, having received seventy-one of the one hundred and forty electoral votes, and Thomas Jefferson, Vice-President, he having received sixty-eight votes, the next high- End of ky-footsteps-digest V00 #194 ********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. 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