November 4, 2014 Elections for Breckinridge County

US Senate:

Grimes

vs.

McConnell

Breckinridge County is in 2nd Appeals Court District (8 year term, over $1 million seat):

2nd Judge in 2nd Appeals District.

Mark H. Flener of Bowling Green.

vs.

Kelly Thompson of Bowling Green.

Breckinridge County Judge-Executive candidates:

Tom Moorman of Harned. Democrat

vs.

Maurice D. Lucas of Hardinsburg. Republican.

10th District Kentucky Representative race.

Claypool

vs.

Schamore.

2nd US Congressional District includes Breckinridge County.

Ron Leach of Brandenburg. Democrat

vs.

S. Brett Guthrie of Bowling Green. Republican.

Breckinridge County's Jailer's Race:

Tara Pile, GOP,

vs.

Shane Beavin, Democrat.

Mayor of Cloverport candidates:

Rick Corley

vs.

Frenchie Rogier

Mayor of Irvington candidates:

Harold Parente

vs.

Yvonne L. Kennedy

vs.

Inez Board (write-in candidate, and politically astute)

Breckinridge County Constables:

1st District is Raleigh H. Shelton IV of Hardinsburg. Democrat

3rd District is Frank Adkins of Garfield. Democrat.

6th District is Richie Smiley of Harned. Republican.

4th District candidates:

Wayne Beauchamp of Irvington. Republican.

vs.

Robbie J. Bloomfield. Democrat.

5th District candidates:

Steve Robinson. Democrat.

vs.

Anthony Whitfill of Harned. Republican.

There's no 2nd District candidate for Constable, and therefore, the 2nd District will have a vacant seat.

Breckinridge County School Board elections:

Cloverport District. Charles F. Wethington vs. Barbara A. Rogers vs. Susan Hendricks

4th District Jeremy Glen Mattingly vs. Anna Kathleen Petit

2nd District Vanessa Lucas

1st (Cloverport?), 3rd, 5th, and 6th districts are absent, though I'm not sure if that's how the school board is organized (with the same 6 Magistrate/6 Constable districts of the county).

Irvington City Council candidates:

Susie Cundiff Pollard

Marvin Rowe

Patricia Livingston Logsdon

Doug Ditto

Michael Kinnison

Jamie Denner

Anna Davis Basham

Rebecca “Becky” Brown

Bruce Basham

Adam M. Tapp

Sophia L. “Brown” Ditto

Hardinsburg City Council candidates:

Nettie Dean Parker

Ints Kampars

Darla F. Wethington

Wilma L. Thomas

Jim Miller

Gregory Earl Hicks

Cloverport City Council candidates:

Loretta Embry

Danny Smiley

Candy V. Weatherholt

Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisor candidates (at large vote; 6? total wins; 18 year olds can only run for this office):

Patrick Henderson of Irvington.

Charles Kenneth French.

AJ Critchelow

Breckinridge County Magistrate candidates:

1st District

James Henning of Hardinsburg. Democrat.

vs.

Brandon Ball of Hardinsburg. Republican.

2nd District

Leslie Gelling Burnett. Democrat.

vs.

Bill Allen Taul of Hardinsburg. Republican.

3rd District

Gary L. Greenwell. Republican.

vs.

Keith W. Robbins. Democrat.

4th District

Willis E. Bosley of Irvington. Democrat.

vs.

Ronnie Robinson of Irvington. Republican.

5th District

Kenneth Hager of Constantine. Democrat.

vs.

Edwin “Sam” Moore. Republican.

6th District

Tim Milburn of Leitchfield. Republican.

vs.

Joe O'Donoghue. Democrat.

Claypool v. Schamore: 10. (NR) The 10th House District, open;
Alan Claypool, Republican, vs. Dean Schamore, Democrat

Democrats have high hopes that they can win this district, which had been held by Republican Rep. Dwight Butler of Harned, who is retiring. The district has shrunk to cover Hancock and Breckinridge counties and part of Hardin County. Hancock has been reliably Democratic. In fact, it was one of the few counties in Kentucky Barack Obama won. Democratic candidate Dean Schamore is a small businessman and a military veteran who is likely to paint Republican Alan Claypool as too extreme for the district. Claypool, who wasn’t Butler’s pick for the GOP nomination this spring, describes himself as “liberty-minded” and has cultivated more tea party support. An Owensboro native, he runs a business consulting company. He ended the primary with $4,000 in the bank. Schamore ended with $26,000.

Running for the 10th District seat this fall are Republican Alan Claypool (Matt Bevin, Glenn Beck endorsed as the Messiah of Republicanism) and Democrat Dean Schamore. Both are from Breckinridge County. Claypool runs a management consulting firm, and Schamore operates an information technology company and was president last year of the Breckinridge Chamber of Commerce. Both describe themselves as conservative. On his campaign website, Schamore states that his mother, Angela Schamore, is a former mayor of Hardinsburg and that he is a sixth cousin of Daniel Boone. "If you want more, vote Schamore," he says. Claypool says on his website that his primary purpose is "to glorify God by enjoying Him forever." He grew up in Owensboro and moved to Atlanta after college to work as a software developer. He came to Breckinridge County in 1998 to be closer to family in Owensboro. In 2013, Claypool was a statewide volunteer coordinator for Louisville businessman Matt Bevin's unsuccessful campaign for the U.S. Senate against Republican incumbent Mitch McConnell.

Kentucky Senator for Breckinridge County Carroll Gibson is not up for reelection this year.

Breckinridge County Sheriff Todd Pate of McDaniels. (unopposed)

PVA Dana Hinton Bland of Hardinsburg. Democrat.

Breckinridge County Clerk. Jill Irwin of Harned. Republican. (unopposed).

Breckinridge County Attorney Bradley S. Butler of Harned. Republican. (unopposed).

Circuit Court Clerk. Nobody?

Breckinridge County Coroner Tim Bandy of Hardinsburg. Democrat. (unopposed).

Mayor of Hardinsburg Wayne Macy of Hwy 261N. (unopposed).

Breckinridge County is in 2nd Supreme Court District: Supreme Court Justice John D. Minton Jr. of Bowling Green is running unopposed.

Breckinridge County is in 2nd Supreme Court District: Supreme Court Justice John D. Minton Jr. of Bowling Green is running unopposed.

Breckinridge County Surveyor is Adam Critchelon. (unopposed)

Breckinridge County is in 2nd Appeals Court District: 1st Judge in 2nd Appeals District. 1- Jeff S. Taylor of Owensboro. Unopposed. 8 year term. $1`million seat.

No Family Court Judge in Breckinridge County. Only Domestic Relations Commissioner.

Breckinridge County cities:

Cloverport.

Custer.

Constantine.

Garfield.

Hardinsburg.

Hudson.

Harned.

Hites Run.

Irvington.

McDaniels.

McQuady.

Webster.

John Breckinridge; namesake of Breckinridge Co, 2nd biggest in Ky. Breckinridge is the progenitor of Kentucky's Breckinridge political family; Virginia House of Delegates in late 1780.[12]

He opposed calling a state constitutional convention in 1799 but was elected as a delegate. Due to his influence, the state's government remained comparatively aristocratic, maintaining protections for slavery and limiting the power of the electorate. Called the father of the resultant constitution, he emerged from the convention as the acknowledged leader of the state'sDemocratic-Republican Party and was selected Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1799 and 1800.

A veteran of the French and Indian War, Robert Breckinridge served first as Augusta County's under-sheriff, then sheriff, then justice of the peace. Soon after John Breckinridge's birth, the family moved to Botetourt County where Robert Breckinridge became a constable and justice of the peace, as well as serving in the local militia. He died in 1773, leaving 12-year-old John 300 acres (1.2 km2) of land, one slave, and half-ownership of another slave.

His family, along with 25 slaves, arrived in April and established their plantation, Cabell's Dale.[46][48] By the time of Breckinridge's move, he owned 30,000 acres (120 km2) in Kentucky.

When he arrived in Kentucky, much of Breckinridge's land was occupied by tenant farmers whose leases had not yet expired.[42] He planted rye and wheat on 20 acres (0.081 km2) of unleased land and sent 11 slaves and an overseer to clear land for the fall planting.[42] Eventually, his crops at Cabell's Dale included corn, wheat, rye, barley, hay, grass seed, and hemp, but he refused to grow tobacco, a major cash crop, which he found too vulnerable to over-cultivation.[42] He also bred thoroughbred horses, planted an orchard, and practiced law.[31] He engaged in land speculation, particularly in the Northwest Territory, and at various times owned interests in iron and salt works, but these ventures were never very successful.

At the time of his death, Breckinridge owned over 20,000 acres (81 km2) of land, and his net worth was estimated at more than $20,000. With a workforce of nearly 70 slaves, he was one of the largest slaveholders in the state. The breeding of horses and mules at Cabell's Dale had become more profitable than selling the excess crops raised there. His daughter, Mary Ann, and her husband, David Castleman, inherited the horse and mule breeding operations, which eventually became the thoroughbred stable of Castleton Lyons.

The conservative faction strengthened the previous constitution's slavery protections by denying suffrage to free blacks and mulattoes. Because of his leading role in the convention, Breckinridge was regarded as the father of the resultant constitution, which was ratified in 1799, and emerged from the convention as the leader of his party. He was reelected as Speaker of the House in 1800.

John Cabell Breckinridge became the youngest vice president in United States history when he was elected with President James Buchanan in the 1856 election. Yet, the turbulence of the times and the American Civil War led him to become the second vice president (after Aaron Burr) to be accused of treason when he joined the Confederate Army and took up arms against the Union. Serving in the U.S. Senate at the outbreak of the Civil War, he was expelled after joining the Confederate Army. He remains the only Senator of the United States convicted of treason against the United States of America by the Senate. He was appointed Confederate Secretary of War late in the war. A member of the Breckinridge family, he was the grandson of U.S. Attorney General John Breckinridge, son of Kentucky Secretary of State Cabell Breckinridge, and father of Arkansas Congressman Clifton R. Breckinridge. After non-combat service in the Mexican–American War, Breckinridge was elected as a Democrat to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1849 where he took a states' rights position against legal interference with slavery. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1851, he allied with Stephen A. Douglas in support of the Kansas–Nebraska Act. After reapportionment in 1854 made his re-election unlikely, he declined to run for another term. He was nominated for vice-president at the 1856 Democratic National Convention to balance a ticket headed by Pennsylvanian James Buchanan. The Democrats won the election, but Breckinridge had little influence with Buchanan and, as presiding officer of the Senate, could not express his opinions in that body's debates. In 1859, he was elected to succeed U.S. Senator John J. Crittenden at the end of Crittenden's term in 1861.

After Southern Democrats walked out of the 1860 Democratic National Convention, the party's northern and southern factions held rival conventions in Baltimore, Maryland that nominated Stephen Douglas and Breckinridge, respectively, for president. Breckinridge carried most of the southern states but no northern states and lost the election. Taking his seat in the Senate, he urged compromise to preserve the Union although seven states had already seceded. Unionists took control of the state legislature when Kentucky's neutrality was breached, but Breckinridge fled 

In exile, he toured Europe from August 1866 to June 1868. When President Andrew Johnson extended amnesty to all former Confederates in late 1868, he returned to Kentucky, but resisted all encouragement to resume his political career. Issues from war injuries sapped his health, and after two operations, he died on May 17, 1875. In August 1849, Kentuckians elected delegates to a state constitutional convention in addition to representatives and senators.

Breckinridge'sabolitionist uncles, William and Robert, joined with Cassius Marcellus Clay to nominate slates of like-minded candidates for the constitutional convention and the legislature.[35] In response, a bipartisan group of pro-slavery citizens organized its own slate of candidates, including Breckinridge for one of Fayette County's two seats in the House of Representatives.[41] Breckinridge, who by this time owned five slaves, had publicly declared his opposition to "impairing in any form" the legal protection of slavery. Despite his endorsement of slavery protections, he was a member of theFreemasons and the First Presbyterian Church in Lexington, both of which officially opposed slavery. He had also previously represented free blacks in court, expressed support for voluntary emancipation, and supported the Kentucky Colonization Society, which was dedicated to the relocation of free blacks to Liberia.

Cassius Clay, a political enemy of Letcher's for years, endorsed Breckinridge, despite their differences on slavery. Citing this endorsement and the abolitionism of Breckinridge's uncles, Letcher tried to paint Breckinridge as an enemy of slavery. Breckinridge pointed to his consistent support for slavery and claimed Letcher was actually hostile to the interests of slaveholders.[65] Although the district had gone for Whig candidate Winfield Scott by over 600 votes in the previous year's presidential election, Breckinridge defeated Letcher by 526 votes. Once again, he received a large margin in Owen County, which reported 123 more votes than eligible voters living in the county.Grateful for the support of the reliably Democratic county, he gave his son John Witherspoon Breckinridge the nickname "Owen".

Lincoln's election as president prompted the secession of the Southern states to form the Confederate States of America. Though Breckinridge sympathized with the Southern cause, in the Senate he worked futilely to reunite the states peacefully. After the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, beginning the Civil War, he opposed allocating resources for Lincoln to fight the Confederacy. Fearing arrest after Kentucky sided with the Union, he fled to the Confederacy, joined the Confederate States Army, and was subsequently expelled from the Senate. He served in the Confederate Army from October 1861 to February 1865, when Confederate President Jefferson Davis appointed him Confederate States Secretary of War. Concluding that the Confederate cause was hopeless, he encouraged Davis to negotiate a national surrender. Davis's capture in April, 1865 ended the war, and Breckinridge fled to Cuba, then Great Britain, and finally Canada, remaining in exile until President Andrew Johnson's offer of amnesty in 1868. Returning to Kentucky, he refused all requests to resume his political career and died of complications related to war injuries in 1875.