The county is named for John Jordan Crittenden, a native Kentuckian, who spent more than fifty years in public service at the local, state and national levels. At various times, Crittenden was a US Senator, Attorney General of the United States, a state and federal legislator and governor of the state. As governor, Crittenden maintained that "the dissolution of the Union can never be regarded- ought never to be regarded- as a remedy, but as the consummation of the greatest evil that can befall us."

Crittenden returned to Kentucky in 1861 to keep his state from seceding, and died in 1863.

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