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Lawrence Wetherby

Lawrence Wetherby (2 January 1908-27 March 1994) was the Democratic Governor of Kentucky from 27 November 1950 to 13 December 1955, succeeding Earle Clements and preceding Happy Chandler.

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Lawrence Wetherby was born in Middletown, Kentucky in 1908, and he clerked for a judge from 1929 to 1950 and served as a part-time attorney for the Jefferson County juvenile court from 1933 to 1937, as Lieutenant Governor from 1947 to 1950, as Governor from 1950 to 1955, and in the State Senate in 1966. Wetherby endorsed Brown v. Board of Education and encouraged other Southern governors to support the desegregation of the 1950s. He unsuccessfully ran for the US Senate in 1956, and he briefly served as a State Senator before leaving politics. Wetherby died in 1994.

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