The 1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1899, to elect the 33rd governor of Kentucky. Incumbent Republican governor William O'Connell Bradley was term-limited and ineligible t
J. C. W. Beckham ascended to the governorship upon Goebel's death.
William Goebel
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William Justus Goebel was an American Democratic politician who served as the 34th governor of Kentucky for four days, having been sworn in on his deathbed one day after being shot by an assassin. Goe
1899 Kentucky gubernatorial election
…ineligible to seek re-election. During a contentious and chaotic convention at the Music Hall in Louisville, the Democratic Party nominated state Senator William Goebel. A dissident faction of the party, styling themselves the "Honest Election Democrats", were angered by Goebel's political tactics at the Music Hall…
William Goebel circa 1889
Goebel's portrait by George Debereiner
Coverage of Goebel's assassination on Anniston Hot Blast's cover page (February 4, 1900)
Monument in Frankfort Cemetery