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claiming that a failure to educate teachers in Kentucky would result in Northern teachers infiltrating the state and corrupting children's minds. The bill passed in 1856, and Transylvania University made the transition from a private institution to a state-supported university. Money raised through school taxes, previously regarded as revenue by the legislature, was diverted to support of Transylvania. Although the teacher education program enrolled seventy-five students, opposition to the plan developed soon after its passage. Many citizens felt that public school money should not be used to support higher education. Governor Morehead defended the plan, but when the legislature convened two years later, it revoked the university's funding.
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Democrats. They made their intentions known on December 11, and by the end of the day, Morehead reported that he had received commitments of support from twenty southern Democrats. During the day's voting, the five southern Whigs shifted their support from Gentry to Morehead. This shift cost Morehead the support of many northern Whigs who, at the caucus meeting the night of December 11, declared that Morehead's election "would ruin the Whig party in the North", especially if he gained the support of southern Democrats. Rather than further fracture the caucus, Morehead withdrew his name from consideration. Cobb was finally elected on the sixty-third ballot on December 22.
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an ultimately futile attempt to avert the Civil War. Morehead refused to sign the final document produced by the convention because he did not agree with all the statements it contained. He was an advocate of Kentucky's position of neutrality, but was personally sympathetic to the South and was an outspoken critic of the Lincoln administration. He condemned Secretary of State
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Morehead moved to Louisville in 1859 and formed a law partnership with his nephew, Charles M. Briggs. In February 1861, he attended the Peace Conference of 1861 that tried to resolve the sectional differences between the states. In May 1861, he was chosen as a delegate to the Border State Convention,
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At their caucus meeting on the night of December 10, the Whigs agreed to continue voting for Winthrop for one more day, and if he was not elected, to switch their support to Morehead, who they believed could hold all of Winthrop's votes and win the votes of the southern Whigs as well as some southern
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Morehead's term as governor was an active one. He approved the appropriation of funding for the first Kentucky State Fair, which was seen as a vehicle for encouraging improvements in agriculture. He also approved the formation of the Kentucky State Agricultural Society in 1856. The state geological
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Though Kentucky had only a small population of immigrants and Catholics, much of Morehead's campaign oratory was directed against these groups. Most of the state's immigrant and Catholic population resided in Louisville, and tensions there reached a climax with an anti-foreign riot known as "Bloody
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Morehead married Amanda Leavy on July 10, 1823. She died July 5, 1829, at the age of twenty-five. Following her death, Morehead married Margaret Leavy, his first wife's sister, on September 6, 1831. Together they had four children. Charles and Margaret were very fond of music, theater, dances, and
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Kentucky's school system was expanding rapidly, creating a shortage of qualified teachers in the state; Morehead responded to this need by proposing a bill for state-supported teacher education program at Transylvania University. The state's superintendent, John D. Matthews, lobbied for the bill,
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at night, the statute was impossible to administer due to the space constraints. Morehead cooperated with the legislature and developed a plan to expand the penitentiary to 252 cells. He also renegotiated the state's contract with the warden that was more favorable to the state, and allowed the
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three times. He was elected to Congress in 1848 and served two terms. After his congressional tenure, he joined the Know Nothing Party and was chosen as the party's candidate for governor in 1855. The campaign was marred by anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic rhetoric that touched off the
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Congresses, serving from March 4, 1847, until March 3, 1851. During the Thirty-first Congress, the Whig caucus considered him as a candidate for Speaker of the House. The voting for speaker began December 3, 1849. The caucus first chose
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think they should be". Later, Guthrie told Lincoln that Morehead's arrest had "not been beneficial" to their cause in Kentucky. Morehead was paroled on January 6, 1862, on the condition that he swear an oath not to take part in the
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Morehead was educated in the area's public schools, then matriculated to Transylvania University. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1820, graduating with honors. After graduation, he became a tutor at the university and earned a
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A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky, of a Public and Permanent Nature: From the Commencement of the Government to the Session of the Legislature, Ending on the 24th February, 1834 : with References to Judicial
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administration. He was imprisoned for disloyalty in September 1861, although no formal charges were ever brought against him. He was released from prison in January 1862, and afterward fled to Canada, Europe, and
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would lead to another arrest. In June 1862, he fled to Canada, then to Europe, and finally to Mexico. Following the war, Morehead returned to the United States and lived on his plantation in
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as their candidate, but after several ballots, Winthrop was still unable to obtain a majority because of sectional rivalries within the caucus. Some Whigs from northern states voted for
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at Frankfort was also increasing. By 1856, 237 prisoners were detained in the facility which had only 126 cells. Though state law required
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to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1828 and was re-elected in 1829. Following his second term in the legislature, he moved to
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Early in his term, Morehead approved two new bank charters, but he later vetoed several others, beginning with the proposed Bank of
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Following his congressional tenure, Morehead resumed his law practice and management of his plantations. In 1852, he was a
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progressed as well; railroad mileage in the state increased from 242 miles to 568 miles during Morehead's term.
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editor Reuben T. Durrett, and a man named Martin W. Barr were arrested for disloyalty. The three were taken to
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Morehead returned to his home in Louisville, but feared his refusal to take an oath of allegiance to the
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Monday" on August 6, 1855. Morehead won the election with 69,816 votes to 65,413 votes for Democrat
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and despite his campaign rhetoric, proclaimed "perfect equality" for naturalized citizens.
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for Morehead. On September 24, the officer who had arrested Morehead told Catron that
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insurgence. On March 19, 1862, he was unconditionally discharged from his parole.
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was convened but failed to return any charges against Morehead.
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were similarly unable to muster a majority for their candidate,
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Frankfort, Kentucky: Kentucky Images. 1069: 996: 976: 649:, Indiana, and the next day, Louisville 512:A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky 478:. He also worked as a farmer, and owned 16:US politician, 20th governor of Kentucky 958: 949: 933: 921: 912: 900: 877: 824: 786: 561: 2226: 1248: 1225: 1208: 1185: 760: 670:had already ordered Morehead taken to 638:for cutting off trade with the South. 434:, where he died on December 21, 1868. 132:March 4, 1847 β€“ March 3, 1851 1868: 1450: 1396:Kentucky's 8th congressional district 1150: 1122: 2269:People from Nelson County, Kentucky 1056:"Charles S. Morehead (id: M000936)" 497: 389:in 1828. 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Index

Charles Morehead (physician)

Governor of Kentucky
Lieutenant
James G. Hardy
Lazarus W. Powell
Beriah Magoffin
U.S. House of Representatives
Kentucky
8th
Garrett Davis
John C. Breckinridge
Attorney General of Kentucky
John Breathitt
James T. Morehead
James Clark
James W. Denny
Owen G. Cotes
Kentucky House of Representatives
Nelson County, Kentucky
Greenville, Mississippi
Frankfort Cemetery
Whig
Know Nothing
James Turner Morehead
Alma mater
Transylvania University
U.S. Representative
Kentucky
20th

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