Primary Sources: Across Disciplines

Papers of Kentucky Governors

The public papers of Governor Keen Johnson, 1939-1943

Call Number: J87 .K417 1939

The public papers of Governor Simeon Willis, 1943-1947

Call Number: J87 .K417

The public papers of Governor Lawrence W. Wetherby, 1951-1955
Call Number: F456.2 .47 1983

The public papers of Governor Bert T. Comb, 1959-1963
Call Number: J87 .K417 1979

The public papers of Governor Edward T. Breathitt, 1963-1967
Call Number: F456.2 .B74 1983

The public papers of Governor Louie B. Nunn, 1967-1971
Call Number: J87 .K417 1967

The public papers of Governor Wendell H. Ford, 1971-1974
Call Number: J87 .K417 1971

The public papers of Governor Martha Layne Collins, 1983-1987
Call Number: J87 .K417 1983

The public papers of Governor Brereton C. Jones, 1991-1995
Call Number: J87 .K4 A15 2001

General Assembly of Kentucky

Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Call Number: J87 .K4 H6

Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (1998)
Call Number: KFK25.2 .A37 1998

Kentucky House and Senate Journals, Organizational and Extra-ordinary Sessions (1983)
Call Number: KEN./REF. J87 .K4

Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (1850-1976)
Call Number: KFK25.2 .A37

Kentucky State Constitution (2012) [1891 plus amendments]
Call Number: KFK1601 1891 .A6 1738 2012

The government of Kentucky: A report of the Efficiency Commission of Kentucky, January 1, 1924 (2 vols.)
Call Number: KEN./JK531 .A8 1924

Report of the Commission on Kentucky's Government (1991)
Call Number: KEN./KFK1625 .C64 1991

Memoirs and Miscellaneous--Selected Works

Biographical Sketch of Hon. Lazarus W. Powell, (of Henderson, Ky.), governor of the state of Kentucky from 1851-1855, senator in Congress from 1859-1865 (1868)
Call Number: KEN./F451 P88 1868

My own story: an account of the conditions in Kentucky leading to the assassination of William Goebel, who was declared governor of the state, and my indictment and conviction on the charge of complicity of his murder (1905) [by Caleb Powers, who was the Republican secretary of state in 1900 when Goebel was assassinated.]
Call Number: F456 .P80

That Kentucky Campaign, or, the law, the ballot and the people in the Goebel-Taylor contest (1900)
Call Number: F451 .H89 1900

From My Old Kentucky Home to the White House: The political journey of Catherine Conner (1999)
Call Number: F456 .C75 1999

Whistle stops: adventures in public life (1985) [Memoir of Wilson W. Wyatt, a mayor of Louisville and lieutenant governor of Kentucky during Bert Combs' gubernatorial administration.]
Call Number: E748 .W97 A39

Bert Combs, the politician: An oral history (1991)
Call Number: F456.26 .C66 B47

Kentucky on the March (1949) [An examination by a citizens' committee on a progressive political agenda for Kentucky]
Call Number: F456 .S35 1949