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
The 1903 Kentucky gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 1903. The incumbent Democratic governor, J. C. W. Beckham, defeated Republican nominee Morris B. Belknap to a win a term in his own right.
Image: Morris B. Belknap