Citizenship Test Answers for Kentucky
Four of the 128 civics questions depend on where you live. Here is how to answer them if you live in Kentucky.
62. What is the capital of your state?
Answer for Kentucky
Frankfort
This is the one state-specific answer that does not change. The three below change with elections. Every name on this page is checked each night against the congressional record and, for governors, two independent public records, and a name is left out rather than printed when the sources disagree.
23. Who is one of your state's U.S. senators now?
Answer for Kentucky now
- Mitch McConnell
- Rand Paul
You only need to give one of these names.
Kentucky has two U.S. senators, like every state. You only need to name one of them. Senators are elected to six-year terms, so this answer changes; give the name of a senator serving on the day of your interview.
Look up Kentucky's senators at senate.gov
29. Name your U.S. representative.
Your representative depends on your congressional district, not just your state, so it is different for two people living in the same city. Look it up by ZIP code.
All 6 of Kentucky's representatives, by district
| District | Representative |
|---|---|
| 1 | James Comer |
| 2 | Brett Guthrie |
| 3 | Morgan McGarvey |
| 4 | Thomas Massie |
| 5 | Harold Rogers |
| 6 | Andy Barr |
If you do not know your district, the lookup below finds it from your ZIP code.
Find your representative at house.gov
Residents of territories with nonvoting Delegates or Resident Commissioners may provide the name of that Delegate or Commissioner. Also acceptable is any statement that the territory has no (voting) representatives in Congress.
61. Who is the governor of your state now?
Answer for Kentucky now
Andy Beshear
Governors are elected and change, so answer with whoever is serving on the day of your
interview. Your state government's official .gov website is the reliable
place to check.
Background on Kentucky
Frankfort is Kentucky's capital and one of the smallest capitals in the country, with Louisville and Lexington each many times its size — a clear case of the capital not being the big city. Kentucky became the 15th state in 1792, the first admitted west of the Appalachians, carved out of Virginia's western counties. It has 6 congressional districts and 8 electoral votes. The state has a place in the Civil War questions as well: it stayed in the Union while permitting slavery, so the Emancipation Proclamation did not reach it, and Abraham Lincoln was born in a Kentucky log cabin in 1809. Remember that only the capital is a permanent answer among the four asked here.
This background section is written by US Citizenship Test Practice. It is not part of the USCIS question list, and it names no senator, representative or governor itself: those names change with elections, so they appear only in the answers above, which are checked every night.
The other 124 questions
Everything else on the civics test is the same no matter where you live.