| | 
Forrest L. Crutchfield —
of Paducah, McCracken
County, Ky.
Engineer; candidate in primary for mayor of
Paducah, Ky., 1951.
Still living as of 1957.
|
| |
Thomas Coleman du Pont (1863-1930) —
also known as T. Coleman du Pont —
of Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del.
Born in Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky., December
11, 1863.
Son of Antoine Bidermann du Pont (1837-1923) and Ellen Susan
(Coleman) du Pont.
Republican. Engineer; president, E.I. Du Pont de Nemours Powder
Co., 1902-15; president, Central Coal and Iron Co., and
other mining firms; director, Union National Bank; owner
of hotels;
Delaware
Republican state chair, 1904-12; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Delaware, 1908
(alternate), 1920,
1924,
1928;
member of Republican
National Committee from Delaware, 1908-30; candidate for
Republican nomination for President, 1916;
U.S.
Senator from Delaware, 1921-22, 1925-28; appointed 1921;
defeated, 1922; resigned 1928.
Member, American
Academy of Political and Social Science; Union
League.
Died, from cancer
of the larynx, in Wilmington, New Castle
County, Del., November
11, 1930 (age 66 years, 335
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at du
Pont Cemetery, Christiana, Del.
|
| |
Harold L. Heiner —
also known as Hal Heiner —
of Louisville, Jefferson
County, Ky.
Republican. Civil engineer; real estate
business; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Kentucky, 2008;
candidate for mayor
of Louisville, Ky., 2010.
Member, American
Society of Civil Engineers.
Still living as of 2010.
|
| |
Ora Main —
of Fayette
County, Ky.
Democrat. Civil engineer; candidate for Kentucky
state senate 12th District, 1981.
Still living as of 2003.
|
| |
Paul E. Patton (b. 1937) —
of Virgie, Pike
County, Ky.
Born in Lawrence
County, Ky., May 26,
1937.
Democrat. Engineer; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Kentucky, 1972,
1996,
2000;
Lieutenant
Governor of Kentucky, 1991-95; defeated in primary, 1987; Governor of
Kentucky, 1995-2003.
Presbyterian.
Still living as of 2009.
|
| |
James Stephen Watkins (b. 1892) —
also known as J. Stephen Watkins —
of Lexington, Fayette
County, Ky.
Born in London, Laurel
County, Ky., November
14, 1892.
Son of Nathaniel Watkins and Dorcas (Chesnut) Watkins.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; civil
engineer; Kentucky Highway Commissioner, 1943-48; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Kentucky, 1952
(alternate), 1956,
1960.
Christian.
Member, American
Society of Civil Engineers; Sigma
Nu; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Rotary; Newcomen
Society.
Burial
location unknown.
|
| |
John McDowell Woodson (b. 1834) —
also known as John M. Woodson —
of Carrollton, Greene
County, Ill.; Carlinville, Macoupin
County, Ill.; St.
Louis, Mo.
Born near Nicholasville, Jessamine
County, Ky., June 5,
1834.
Son of David
Meade Woodson and Lucy Nash (McDowell) Woodson.
Engineer; lawyer; delegate
to Illinois state constitutional convention Greene County, 1862;
member of Illinois
state senate, 1867-69; attorney for several railroads.
Burial
location unknown.
|
| |
Marvin Lee Worthington (1940-2000) —
also known as Marvin L. Worthington; Pete
Worthington —
of Washington, Mason
County, Ky.
Born December
5, 1940.
Engineer; farmer;
member of Kentucky
state house of representatives, 1978-2000; died in office 2000.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Farm
Bureau; Odd
Fellows.
Charged
with drunken
driving
and speeding
in Fayette County, Ky., in 1992; pleaded
guilty to a reduced charge of
reckless
driving.
Driving on U.S. Highway 68 while intoxicated, he crossed the center
line and collided
with another car; both he and the other driver (Sherri Commodore
Chambers) were killed, near Mayslick, Mason
County, Ky., October
12, 2000 (age 59 years, 312
days).
Burial
location unknown.
|
|
The Political Graveyard
is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries.
Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source
for American political biography, listing 234,420
politicians, living and dead. |
| |
| |
The coverage of the site includes (1) the President, Vice President,
members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in
all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and
the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying
municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for
any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges;
(4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet,
diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys,
collectors of customs and internal revenue, and members of major
federal commissions; and (5) state and national political party officials,
including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in
national party nominating conventions. |
|
| |
The listings are incomplete; development of the database
is a continually ongoing project. |
|
| |
Information on this page — and on all other pages of this
site — is believed to be accurate, but is not
guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources
before relying on any information here. |
|
| |
The official URL for this page is: http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KY/engineer.html. |
|
| |
Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page
are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes
change as the site develops. |
|
| |
If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the
alphabetical index of
politicians. |
|
| |
More information: FAQ;
privacy policy;
cemetery links. |
|
| |
If you find any error or omission in The Political Graveyard,
or if you have information to share, please see the
biographical checklist and
submission guidelines. |
|
|
Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained
by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure
and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard,
P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by
HDL. —
The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996;
the last full revision was done on
May 12, 2012.
|
|
Copyright notice: Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist
v. Rural Telephone. Original material, programming, selection and
arrangement are © 1996-2011 Lawrence Kestenbaum. This work is also
licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons
License. |
![[Amazon.com]](http://politicalgraveyard.com/images/a150X70b.gif)
