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Cassius M. Clay (1895-1959) —
of Paris, Bourbon
County, Ky.
Born in Bourbon
County, Ky., March 2,
1895.
Son of Cassius
M. Clay (1850?-?) and Mary Blythe (Harris) Clay.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; farmer;
general solicitor, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad,
1941-45; member of Kentucky
state house of representatives 67th District, 1954-55; member of
Kentucky
state senate 28th District, 1958-59; died in office 1959.
Christian.
Member, American
Legion; Farm
Bureau; Phi
Beta Kappa; Beta Theta Pi; Phi
Delta Phi.
Died November
26, 1959 (age 64 years, 269
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Sherman Cooper (1901-1991) —
of Somerset, Pulaski
County, Ky.
Born in Somerset, Pulaski
County, Ky., August
23, 1901.
Son of John
Cooper.
Republican. Member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1928-30; county judge in
Kentucky, 1930-38; candidate for Governor of
Kentucky, 1939; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Senator from Kentucky, 1946-49, 1952-55, 1956-73; defeated, 1948,
1954; delegate to Republican National Convention from Kentucky, 1948,
1956,
1960
(member, Resolutions
Committee), 1972
(delegation chair); U.S. Ambassador to India, 1955-56; Nepal, 1955-56; East Germany, 1974-76; member, President's Commission
on the Assassination of President KNDY, 1963-64.
Baptist
or Episcopalian.
Member, American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Rotary; American Bar
Association; Beta Theta Pi.
The John Sherman Cooper Power Plant in Somerset, Ky., is named for
him.
Died of heart
failure, in Washington,
D.C., February
21, 1991 (age 89 years, 182
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.; statue at Fountain
Square, Somerset, Ky.
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Lee Cruce (1863-1933) —
of Ardmore, Carter
County, Okla.
Born in Marion, Crittenden
County, Ky., July 8,
1863.
Son of James Winlock Cruce and Jane (Hill) Cruce.
Democrat. Merchant;
lawyer;
banker;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Oklahoma, 1908,
1920,
1928;
Governor
of Oklahoma, 1911-15.
Presbyterian.
Member, Beta Theta Pi; Freemasons.
Died in Ardmore, Carter
County, Okla., January
16, 1933 (age 69 years, 192
days).
Interment somewhere
in Muskogee, Okla.
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Brereton Chandler Jones (b. 1939) —
also known as Brereton C. Jones; Brerry
Jones —
of Point Pleasant, Mason
County, W.Va.; Woodford
County, Ky.
Born in Gallipolis, Gallia
County, Ohio, June 27,
1939.
Son of Nedra
Jones and E.
Bartow Jones.
Member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Mason County, 1965-68; Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1987-91; Governor of
Kentucky, 1991-95.
Episcopalian
or Presbyterian.
Member, Delta
Sigma Pi; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Beta Theta Pi.
Still living as of 2009.
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