Are you a Kentucky Colonel? Preserve your legacy, get listed in the Kentucky Colonels Handbook last published in 1930.
There are many factors that can be used by governors to qualify a person to become a Kentucky Colonel. Persons listed on our website are normally qualified because of what they did to be nominated as a Kentucky Colonel must be noteworthy is recorded as a deed in the opinion of the general public. We entertain the idea of being qualified by understanding the reason behind each individual commission.
To begin with, it’s important to first understand that there are several so-called “Orders of the Colonel” a Commonwealth or State Governor (from any of the 50 states) can appoint a person to, with what exactly a person did to earn the honor and what their job is usually being taken into account to decide which. During peacetime (for the state), the Governor appoints civilians, state employees, friends, former members of the military and visitors to the Honorable Order which is also known as the Civil Order. Some people (colonels) who perform valuable work in regards to foreign and domestic relations (outside the state) can be additionally appointed by the Secretary of State as a Commonwealth Ambassador or can be designated a Kentucky Admiral by the Director of the Kentucky Department for Natural Resources.
The Kentucky Colonel title and the associated state titles determine the commissioned officer's powers, role and part in the state's progress and prosperity, in English Customs they would call the Commonwealth itself the "Fount of Honour" in lieu of the King or Queen, which is conferred by the "Head of State" based on the correlative history of the title in common-law to its first recipient (tradition).
A legitimate fons honorum in law is a person or entity who holds sovereignty when the order (commission) is awarded; ultimately, it is the authority of the state, whether exercised by a reigning monarch or the president of a republic, that distinguishes orders of chivalry.Because modern civilian colonelcy emerges from Colonial America (specifically used in colonies) the procedure, method and the purposes of empowerment, the commission status remains basically the same today as it did in 1651 with the one exception of the State (Colony) establishing in law its separation from the Realm of the Monarchy. The colonels and their colonists on January 1, 1775 enacted new patriot laws in the colonies removing the British Crown as the sovereign, months later the Revolution had officially begun under the direction of the colonels.
The dominion model of the empire influenced subsequent American thinking about their federal system. Not only did American Colonists conceive of the Confederation Congress as a substitute for the British Crown (which is why it lacked the powers to tax and regulate trade); later (Col.) James Madison came to believe that the national government he proposed in 1787, with its negative over all state laws, might play the same super-political role the British king ideally was supposed to have played in the empire, that of a “disinterested and dispassionate umpire in disputes between different passions & interests.
The patent method of creating a colonel by the head of state is to take and formally document the deeds of the individual being recognized for the commonwealth of the state by exchanging them for the honorable title. The estimated modern value of a single honorable title can only be determined by the title holder, although it is not openly discussed from 1792 until 2020, colonels and state governors have required a contribution of up to $10,000 and have received contributions to the Commonwealth of up to $50,000 as early as 1933. Prior to Governor Ruby Laffoon using his powers as the governor to raise funds for the state during the depression, Kentucky Colonel Commissions starting in 1896 varied greatly in legal letter style and were not suitable for framing and they were generally only granted to the friends of the governor and the state.
