Edward C. O'Rear
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Edward Clay O'Rear was an American politician who served on the Kentucky Court of Appeals and was a Republican candidate for the United States House of Representatives in 1888 and for governor of Kent
O'Rear in 1908
Virginia Lee Hazelrigg O'Rear and her husband Edward Clay O'Rear in 1882
James B. McCreary defeated O'Rear in the gubernatorial election of 1911.
James B. McCreary
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James Bennett McCreary was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky. He was a member of the Democratic Party; identified with its reform wing.
Edward C. O'Rear
…In 1911, O'Rear ran for governor, but his progressive platform alienated his party's more conservative wing, and he lost the election to Democrat James B. McCreary. Shortly after the election, he resigned from the Court of Appeals and returned to private practice. O'Rear became wealthy as a chief counsel in Kentucky…
Catherine Hughes McCreary
John Marshall Harlan, McCreary's opponent in the 1875 gubernatorial contest
J. C. W. Beckham, McCreary's sometime ally, succeeded him in the Senate.