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Kentucky Railroad Commission
Seal of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Details of Office
Type	Partisan
Selection	Elected
Term	4 Years, non-consecutive
Authority	Statute (1878) Constitution (1891)
Inaugural Officeholders	Henry D. McHenry (Chair) Lucius Desha W.H. Pettus
Established	1878
Abolished	2000

The Kentucky Railroad Commission was an elected body of the Commonwealth of Kentucky that served as the chief decision-making authority concerning the railroads from the time of its creation in 1878 until it was abolished by a ballot amendment in 2000.

History

List of commissioners

1878

• Henry D. McHenry (Chair)
• Lucius Desha
• William H. Pettus

1880

• J. Fletcher Johnston (Chair)
• C. H. Rochester
• C. E. Kincaid

1882

• D. Howard Smith (Chair)
• Willis B. Machen
• William M. Beckner

1884

• J. P. Thompson (Chair)
• John D. Young
• A. R. Boone (Died January 27, 1886)
• I. A. Spalding (Appointed to fill unexpired term of A. R. Boone)

1888

• I. A. Spalding (Chair)
• W. B. Fleming
• John F. Hager (resigned August 1891)
• George M. Adams (Appointed to fill unexpired term of John F. Hager)

1892

• C. C. McChord (Chair - resigned)
• James N. Saunders (Appointed to fill unexpired term of C. C McChord)
• Urey Woodson
• Charles B. Poyntz

1895

• John C. Wood (Chair)
• H. S. Irwin
• J. F. Dempsey

1899

• C. C. McChord (Chair)
• John C. Wood
• J.F. Dempsey

1903

• C.C. McChord (Chair - resigned)
• W. P. Walton (Appointed to fill unexpired term of C. C. McChord)
• McDougal Ferguson
• Adam T. Siler

1907

• Adam T. Siler (Chair)
• McDougal Ferguson (Died June 17, 1909)
• John P. Haswell Jr. (Appointed to fill unexpired term of McD. Ferguson, resigned December 1, 1909)
• Laurence B. Finn (Appointed to fill unexpired term of John P. Haswell Jr.)
• Lew P. Tarlton

References

• https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/lrc/publications/ResearchReports/rr181.pdf
• https://books.google.com/books?id=DVM2AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
• https://archive.org/details/annualreportrai00kentgoog/page/n10/mode/2up
• https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/browse?type=atitle&index=3338384&key=railroad%20commission%20of%20kentucky%01biennial%20report&c=x