John Adair 1800 to 1803. A candidate for a seat in the U.S. Senate in 1800, he was defeated in an overwhelming 68–13 vote of the legislature by John Breckinridge, who had been the acknowledged leader of the just-concluded constitutional convention. In 1802, Adair succeeded Breckinridge as Speaker of the House by a vote of 30–14 over Elder David Purviance, the candidate preferred by Governor James Garrard. He continued to serve as Speaker for the duration of his tenure in the House. In 1802, the legislature formed Adair County, Kentucky, naming it after the popular Speaker. In January 1804, Garrard nominated Adair
John Hersey came with "The Child Buyer" (1960), a speculative-fiction novel. Hersey also wrote "The Algiers Motel Incident", about a racially motivated shooting by police during the 12th Street Riot in Detroit, Michigan, during 1968. Hersey's first novel "A Bell for Adano", about the Allied occupation of a Sicilian town during World War II, won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1945, and was adapted into the 1945 movie "A Bell for Adano" directed by Henry King, featuring John Hodiak and Gene Tierney. His 1956 short novel, "A Single Pebble" is the tale of a young American engineer traveling up the