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
Irvin S. Cobb
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Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky, who relocated to New York in 1904, living there for the remainder of his life. He wrote for the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, as the highest paid staff reporter in the United States.
Irvin S. Cobb wearing a coonskin cap and smoking a cigar. Illustration by Tony Sarg for "The Glory of the States: Kentucky" by Irvin S. Cobb, published in The American Magazine for May 1916.