 As lieutenant governor , Breathitt promoted the creation of public schools in the state . On December 31 , 1829 , he was elected president of the Kentucky Educational Society whose stated mission was to " promote improvement and diffusion of popular education by the circulation of information , by enlisting the pulpit and the press , by procuring the delivery of popular addresses on the subject on the 4th day of July , and in different neighborhoods , and by other means that may be found practicable . " In 1833 , he became president of the Kentucky Common School Society . 
