James Dixon Black was the 39th Governor of Kentucky, serving for seven months in 1919. He ascended to the office when Governor Augustus O. Stanley was elected to the U.S. Senate.
James Dixon Black was born on September 24, 1849 nine miles from Barbourville on Richland Creek in Knox County, Kentucky. He was the youngest of twelve children born to John Craig and Clarissa Cassie Black. Blacks older brother, Isaac Jones Black , was captain of the 49th Kentucky Mounted Infantry in the Union Army during the Civil War.
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