Age, Biography, and Wiki
- Full Name: Andrew Graham Beshear
- Date of Birth: November 29, 1977
- Born: Louisville, Kentucky, United States
- Current Age: 47 years (as of June 2025)
- Parents: Steve Beshear (father, former Governor of Kentucky) and Jane Klingner Beshear (mother)
- Siblings: Not widely publicized
- Spouse: Britainy Beshear
- Children: Two
Beshear was raised in Lexington, Louisville, and Frankfort, Kentucky. He is a member of the Democratic Party and has served as Governor since 2019, previously holding the office of Kentucky’s Attorney General from 2016 to 2019.
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| Date of Birth | 29 November 1977 |
| Age | 47 Years |
| Birth Place | Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Horoscope | Sagittarius |
| Country | U.S |
Height, Weight & Measurements
Publicly available sources do not provide official figures for Andy Beshear’s height, weight, or body measurements. He typically appears as an average-height, fit individual in public appearances.
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Dating & Relationship Status
- Marital Status: Married since before entering major political office
- Spouse: Britainy Beshear
- Children: Two
Beshear maintains a private family life, with little information available about his dating history or private relationships.
He was raised in Lexington and graduated from Henry Clay High School. His father, an attorney and politician, was the governor of Kentucky from 2007 to 2015.
Beshear was a 2001 summer associate at White & Case LLP in New York, the same law firm where his father started his law career. Beshear worked at White & Case in Washington D.C. for two years after his graduation from UVA law. In 2005, he was hired by the law firm Stites & Harbison, where 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. His father's office maintained that there was no conflict of interest with the son's representation. Beshear also represented the Indian company UFlex, which sought $20 million in tax breaks from his father's administration, drawing criticism from ethics watchdogs over a potential conflict of interest. In 2013, while he was working at Stites & Harbison, Lawyer Monthly named Beshear its "Consumer Lawyer of the Year – USA".
On January 4, 2023, Beshear was selected by fellow Appalachian governors to serve States' co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission for 2023, succeeding Maryland governor Larry Hogan. During his tenure as co-chair, the commission put forward US$322 million into financing 701 projects. His father, Steve Beshear, served in the role in 2015.
Beshear and his wife Britainy are deacons at the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) denominated Beargrass Christian Church in Louisville. They have two children.
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Net Worth and Salary
- Estimated Net Worth (2025): $3–$5 million (some sources cite up to $5 million or slightly higher)
- Governor’s Salary: Approximately $174,217 annually
- 2022 Adjusted Gross Income (Tax Returns): $194,094, including salary and stock dividends
- Additional Income: Investment dividends, previous legal career earnings
His wealth is attributed to his legal career, years as Attorney General, current gubernatorial salary, and diversified investment portfolio.
In June 2021, Beshear signed an executive order to allow college athletes to receive name, image, and likeness compensation. It made Kentucky the first state to do so via executive order; six other states had done so through legislation.
In 2019, Beshear pledged to include a $2,000 pay raise for all Kentucky teachers in his budgets (at what he estimated would be a cost of $84 million). Republican House Majority Floor Leader John Carney rejected the proposal. Beshear has proposed such a pay raise in his budgets, but the Kentucky legislature has not included such raises in the budgets it passed.
Beshear supports a $2.5-billion project to build a companion bridge to supplement the Brent Spence Bridge that carries Interstates 71 and 75 over the Ohio River between Covington, Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio. He hoped to fund the bridge by conventional means, not tolling, but was unsure whether the state in fact had the funds to do that. In 2021, Kentucky Senator Chris McDaniel, Northern Kentucky's top Republican state lawmaker and chair of the Senate finance and budget committee, said he opposed Beshear's proposal to use the state's rainy day fund or a general fund surplus to help pay for the project.
Career, Business, and Investments
- Current Position: Governor of Kentucky (2019–present)
- Previous Position: Attorney General of Kentucky (2016–2019)
- Legal Career: Worked as an attorney at Stites & Harbison, a prominent Kentucky law firm
- Business Ventures: No significant outside business ventures reported
- Investments: Holds stock in numerous companies, including Progressive Corp (PGR), Home Depot (HD), Fastenal Co (FAST), O’Reilly Auto (ORLY), Alphabet (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Apple (AAPL), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B), and others
Beshear is recognized for his commitment to transparency in public life, consistently releasing his tax returns and financial disclosures.
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 lacked the authority to make mid-cycle budget cuts without the Kentucky General Assembly's approval. Also in 2016, the Kentucky Supreme Court unanimously sided with Bevin when Beshear sued him on the grounds that Bevin lacked the authority to overhaul the University of Louisville's board of trustees. In 2017, the Kentucky Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit Beshear brought against Bevin, holding that Bevin had the power to temporarily reshape boards while the legislature is out of session; Bevin called Beshear's lawsuit a "shameful waste of taxpayer resources". In April 2018, Beshear successfully sued Bevin for signing Senate Bill 151, a controversial plan to reform teacher pensions, with the Kentucky Supreme Court ruling the bill unconstitutional. Bevin said Beshear "never sues on behalf of the people of Kentucky. He does it on behalf of his own political career".
On November 18, 2020, as the state's COVID-19 cases continued to increase, Beshear ordered Kentucky's public and private schools to halt in-person learning on November 23 with in-person classes to resume in January 2021. This marked the first time Beshear ordered, rather than recommended, schools to cease in-person instruction. Danville Christian Academy, joined by Attorney General Daniel Cameron, filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, claiming that Beshear's order violated the First Amendment by prohibiting religious organizations to educate children in accordance with their faith. A group of Republican U.S. senators supported the challenge. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Beshear's order.
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.
Beshear is opposed to all charter schools in Kentucky, saying "schools run by corporations are not public schools." He says that funding them would violate the state constitution.
Beshear accepts the scientific consensus on climate change. In 2019, he said he wanted to create more clean energy jobs to employ those who lose their jobs in the coal industry and to expand clean coal technology in Kentucky.
Social Network
- Twitter: @GovAndyBeshear
- Facebook: /GovAndyBeshear
- Instagram: @govandybeshear
Governor Beshear maintains an active social media presence, using these platforms to engage with constituents and share updates about his administration.
Education
- High School: Henry Clay High School, Lexington, KY
- Undergraduate: Vanderbilt University, Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Anthropology
- Law School: University of Virginia, Juris Doctor (J.D.)
Beshear’s educational background laid the foundation for his legal and political career.
After high school, Beshear studied political science and anthropology at Vanderbilt University, where he was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. He earned a bachelor of arts, magna cum laude in 2000. He then attended the University of Virginia School of Law, receiving a Juris Doctor in 2003.
{{legend|#D72F30|70–80%}}]] On July 9, 2018, Beshear declared his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor of Kentucky in the 2019 election. He chose Jacqueline Coleman, a nonprofit president, assistant principal, and former state house candidate, as his running mate. Beshear said he would make public education a priority. In May 2019, he won the Democratic nomination with 37.9% of the vote in a three-way contest.
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 power to reorganize state boards while the legislature was not in session. Beshear's critics suggested that the appointments undermined the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990, which sought to insulate the board from political influence; the Board had increasingly been the focus of political battles in the years preceding 2019.
On August 19, 2021, U.S. District Judge William Bertelsman issued a temporary restraining order blocking the school mask mandate. Two days later, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled against Beshear's challenge of several newly enacted Kentucky laws that, among other things, limit the governor's authority to issue executive orders in times of emergency to 30 days, unless extended by state legislators. The state supreme court dissolved an injunction against the law issued by a Kentucky trial court at Beshear's request. The Supreme Court's opinion, by Justice Lawrence VanMeter, addressed separation of powers between the governor and the General Assembly. The Kentucky Supreme Court found that the challenged laws were valid exercises of the General Assembly's legislative powers, although two justices wrote in a concurring opinion that the 30-day "kill switch" enacted by the legislature should be scrutinized on remand to the lower courts. On August 23, 2021, Beshear rescinded his executive order requiring masks in Kentucky schools.
