High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! James Garrard (January 14, 1749 – January 19, 1822) was an American soldier who served as the second Governor of Kentucky from 1796 to 1804. He was also a Baptist minister, but his secretary of state, Unitarian minister Henry Toulmin, influenced him to adopt Socinianism. The local Baptist association withdrew fellowship from Garrard for adopting and promoting this doctrine, which they considered heretical.