Charles A. Wickliffe

Charles Anderson Wickliffe was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky. He also served as Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives, the 14th Governor of Kentucky, and was appointed Postmaster General by President John Tyler. Though he consistently identified with the Whig Party, he was politically independent, and often had differences of opinion with Whig founder and fellow Kentuckian Henry Clay.

8 June 1788

Born on the same birth day (8 June): Alicia Boole Stott • John Q. A. Brackett • Kathy Baker • Kim Clijsters • Mary Bonauto • Nada Inada • Nancy Sinatra • Peter Eggert • Pierre-André Fournier • Scott Adams • Thomas J. Higgins • Thomas Rickman

Born in the same month (June 1788): Thomas Blanchard (inventor)