Monday, June 1, 2009

Briefly, Happy 217th Birthday Kentucky

Today marks the 217th birthday of our Commonwealth, having been admitted to the Union as agreed to by a vote of the Commonwealth of Virginia on December 18, 1789; a vote of the Ninth Enabling Convention on July 29, 1790; a vote of the United States Congress on February 4, 1791; and the adoption of the Constitution of Kentucky by the Tenth Enabling Convention on April 19, 1792; all of which declared that on June 1, 1792, the Commonwealth of Virginia would cede its lands in Kentucky and the Commonwealth of Kentucky would therefore be the fifteenth state entered into the United States of America.

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Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Never married, liberal Democrat, born in 1960, opinionated but generally pleasant, member of the Episcopal Church. Graduate of Prestonia Elementary, Durrett High, and Spalding University; the first two now-closed Jefferson County Public Schools, the latter a very small liberal arts college in downtown Louisville affiliated with the Roman Catholic Sisters of Charity of Nazareth. My vocation and avocation is politics. My favorite pastime is driving the backroads of Kentucky and southern Indiana, visiting small towns, political hangouts, courthouses, churches, and cemeteries. You are welcome to ride with me sometime.