A Kentucky Goodwill Ambassador
My name is James Edward Hartman, I was Commissioned on 13 July 2021 as a Colonel and aide-de-camp to the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky for Life through letters patent issued by Governor Andy Beshear. Currently I reside in the Great State of
Indiana
The act,which is a letters patent,bestows
the honorable title holder a Kentucky Colonel Commission which is a
civilian officership as a goodwill ambassador for the state. The Kentucky Colonel can use the title to start a business, an association, an organization, a company or a civilian militia; a colonial could also designate who the justices of the peace, schoolmasters, sheriffs, coroners, doctors, firemen, merchants and lieutenants were in their colonies. The main duty of the colonel was to organize the colony by establishing a civil government honorably for his commissioner. Colonels also performed weddings and officiated civil order
Maybe they still can.
When
using the title"Colonel" or "Col." as a Kentucky Colonel as a "style"
or "form of address" in presentation like many people do; is to infer
that their colonelcy represents civilian officership (non-military) as
an ambassador of goodwill. As a form of address in writing, a Kentucky
colonel should present themselves as "Col. First name Last name, Kentucky
Colonel" or "Col. First name Last name, Kentucky Goodwill Ambassador",
both of these styles are acceptable with government, are correct, and understood internationally.
Although there are no specific duties required of those to whom
the title is granted, the Kentucky colonel has served the Commonwealth
of Kentucky as a cultural icon since it began. Legally, the current job
description for a Kentucky Colonel is to serve as an ambassador goodwill
for the state's culture, customs, and traditions; Kentucky colonels are
implicitly obliged with the honorable title of being recognized today
as the promoters of economic development and tourism as well. In common
law, since colonial days,
colonels had more rights and authority based on their own and everyone
else's understanding, these common law customs continue today; although
these customs are not as easily so easily applied under today's rule of
the government created by the colonels of yesterday.
