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Adair County was named in 1801 for Gen. John Adair, who was born in 1757 in South Carolina and came to Kentucky in 1788. He was a member of the Kentucky Constitutional Convention in 1792 and served in the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1793-95, 1798, 1800-03, and 1817. He was a US Senator in 1805-06, Governor of Kentucky from 1820-24, and a Congressman in 1831-33. He was at the Battle of Thames in 1813, commanded Kentucky troops in the Battle of New Orleans in 1815, and died in 1840.
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Columbia, Kentucky · United States