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James T. Morehead was born on May 24, 1797, near Shepherdsville, Bullitt County, Kentucky, his father, Armistead Morehead, having recently migrated from Virginia. He was the first cousin of Charles Slaughter Morehead and second cousin of John Motley Morehead.
The family soon moved to Russellville, where James began his education. After attending Transylvania University, 1813 - 1815, he studied law under Judge H. P. Broadnax and John J. Crittenden.
In 1818 he was admitted to the bar and began to practise in Bowling Green, where he became known as an able lawyer.
Morehead began his public career in 1816 by writing letters to the newspapers on public affairs. In the twenties he favored the proposed bankruptcy laws, but opposed the new court of appeals established by the Relief party.
Elected to the lower house of the legislature, where he served from 1828 to 1831, he became chairman of the committee on internal improvements and in 1831 reported the bill for a state subscription to the Maysville-Lexington Turnpike Company. In that year he was a member of the National Republican Convention at Baltimore which nominated Henry Clay for the presidency, and was nominated by a state convention for the post of lieutenant-governor, to which he was elected, although a Democrat, Breathitt, was elected governor.
On the latter's death, Morehead became governor, February 21, 1834, and held the office until September 1836. He strongly urged the legislature to extend the river improvements already begun, and became ex-officio the first president of the permanent Board of Internal Improvements, of which he was later appointed president by his successor in the governorship (1836 - 1837). During this period, many Kentucky rivers were surveyed and many improvements projected, but the panic of 1837 prevented the execution of most of the plans. As governor, Morehead also favored judicial reform and popular education, and denounced the Abolitionists.
He was again a member of the legislature, 1837 - 1838; and in 1839 - 1840 was, with J. S. Smith, a commissioner to arrange for the return of fugitive slaves from Ohio.
In 1841, he was elected to the United States Senate over many competitors, and served from February 20, 1841, to March 3, 1847. He consistently supported the program of his colleague, Henry Clay, being especially prominent in defense of the Bank Bill and the nomination of Everett as minister to London. He opposed the annexation of Texas, both by treaty and by joint resolution, and the acquisition of territory from Mexico, although, like most of the Whig senators, he felt compelled to vote for waging war on Mexico because it was felt that Mexico had begun the war. Morehead was also interested in the American Colonization Society, being at one time president of the Kentucky branch.
His large library contained many works on early Kentucky history, and in 1840 he published An Address in Commemoration of the First Settlement of Kentucky, largely based on earlier writers but containing some original material on the Boonesborough settlement. He was also the author of Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings at Law (1846). During his latter years he practised at Covington, Kentucky, and there he died on August 27, 1866.
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A member of Henry Clay's National Republican Party, Morehead entered politics just as his party was beginning to challenge the Democratic Party's dominance in the state.
In 1834, the National Republican party began to re-brand itself as the Whig Party, a name that first appeared in the Lexington Intelligencer on April 25, 1834.
James T. Morehead was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1828 to 1831.
On May 1, 1823, James T. Morehead married Susan A. Roberts of Logan County; the couple had two children.
In 1839, Morehead married Lavinia Espy, by whom he had several children.
Henry Clay, Sr. was an American lawyer, planter, and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the United States Senate and House of Representatives.
Charles Slaughter Morehead was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, and served as the 20th Governor of Kentucky.
John Motley Morehead John Motley Morehead was an American lawyer and politician, who became the 29th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina.
