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Jane Beshear (née Klingner; born 1946) is an American educator who served as first lady of Kentucky from 2007 to 2015, during the tenure of her husband, former governor Steve Beshear. She is the mother of current Kentucky governor Andy Beshear.
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Beshear was born in Louisville, the son of Steve and Jane Beshear. He graduated from Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Kentucky.His father, a lawyer and politician, was the governor of Kentucky from 2007 to 2015. After high school, Beshear studied anthropology at Vanderbilt University, where he was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. He gradua...
In 2005, Beshear was hired by the law firm Stites & Harbison, at which his father was a partner. He represented the developers of the Bluegrass Pipeline, which would have transported natural gas liquid through Kentucky. The project was controversial; critics voiced environmental concerns and objections to the use of eminent domain for the pipeline....
2015 election
In November 2013, Beshear announced his candidacy in the 2015 election for Attorney General of Kentucky, to succeed Democrat Jack Conway, who could not run for reelection, due to term limits. Beshear defeated Republican Whitney Westerfield with 50.1% of the vote to Westerfield's 49.9%.The margin was approximately 2,000 votes.
Tenure
Beshear sued Governor Matt Bevin several times over what he argued was Bevin's abuse of executive powers during Beshear's tenure as attorney general and while he was campaigning against Bevin for governor. Beshear won some cases and lost others. In April 2016, he sued Bevin over his mid-cycle budget cuts to the state university system. The Kentucky Supreme Court issued a 5–2 ruling agreeing with Beshear that Bevin did not have the authority to make mid-cycle budget cuts without the Kentucky G...
Tenure
Beshear was inaugurated as governor on December 10, 2019. In his inaugural address, he called on Republicans, who had a supermajority in both houses of the Kentucky General Assembly, to reach across the aisle and solve Kentucky's issues in a bipartisan way. Upon taking office, Beshear replaced all 11 members of the Kentucky Board of Education before the end of their two-year terms. The firing of the board members fulfilled a campaign pledge, and was an unprecedented use of the governor's powe...
Abortion
Beshear supports access to abortion and Roe v. Wade. One month after he took office as governor, his administration gave Planned Parenthood permission to provide abortions at its Louisville clinic, making it the second facility in Kentucky to offer abortions. In April 2020, Beshear vetoed a bill that would have allowed Attorney General Daniel Cameron to suspend abortions during the COVID-19 pandemic and exercise more power regulating clinics that offer abortions. He was endorsed by NARAL Pro-...
COVID-19
On March 25, 2020, Beshear declared a state of emergency over the COVID-19 pandemic. He encouraged business owners to require customers to wear face coverings while indoors. He also banned "mass gatherings" including protests but not normal gatherings at shopping malls and libraries; constitutional law professor Floyd Abrams and lawyer John Langford opined that Beshear's order was inappropriate as it violated public protests' special protected status under the First Amendment. In August 2020,...
Crime
Beshear signed an executive order completely restoring the voting rights, and right to hold public office, of 180,315 Kentuckians who had been convicted of nonviolent felonies.He has restored rights to more felons than any other governor in American history. In March 2021, Beshear signed a law that allows judges to decide whether to transfer minors 14 and older to adult court if they are charged with a crime involving a firearm. Previously, judges were required to send juveniles to adult cour...
Beshear and his wife Britainy are members of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and both are deacons.They have two children.
Andy Beshear. From an early age, Governor Andy Beshear's parents, former Governor Steve Beshear and First Lady Jane Beshear, along with his family and community, instilled in him the values of faith and public service.
11 de dez. de 2015 · Renee speaks with Jane Beshear, former first lady of Kentucky, about her policy initiatives and programs during her time in the Governor's Mansion.
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- December 10, 2015
Fist Lady of Kentucky, Jane Beshear, accepts the International Society of Rider Biomechanics Humanitarian Award for "Horses and Hope" during the 2014 Symposi...
1 de ago. de 2013 · The Capitol Education Center is the newest attraction for guests to visit on the Kentucky State Capitol Campus.Jane Beshear, a former teacher, marshaled the ...
