J. C. W. Beckham
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John Crepps Wickliffe Beckham was an American attorney and politician who served as the 35th governor of Kentucky and a United States senator from Kentucky. He was the state's first popularly-elected senator after the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment.
Funds were allocated for the construction of Kentucky's current capitol during Beckham's second term.
Wickland, Beckham's birthplace, is on the National Register of Historic Places
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 a day after being shot by an assassin. Goebel is the only sitting state governor in United States history to die by assassination.
Goebel's portrait by George Debereiner
Coverage of Goebel's assassination on The Anniston Hot Blast's cover page (February 4, 1900)
Monument in Frankfort Cemetery