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Agriculture Commissioner Of Kentucky
The Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture is an elected position in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The Commissioner of Agriculture serves as head of the Kentucky Department of Agriculture. The commissioner manages agriculture markets, rural development, and the Kentucky Proud Program. The current commissioner of agriculture is Jonathan Shell (Republican Party (United States), R). List of commissioners * John F. Davis (Kentucky), John F. Davis (1876–1880) * C.E. Bowman, C. E. Bowman (1880–1884) * John F. Davis (1884–1888) * Charles Y. Wilson (Kentucky), Charles Y. Wilson (1888–1892) * Nicholas McDowell (1892–1896) * Lucas Moore (1896–1900) * Ion B. Nall (1900–1904) * Hubert Vreeland (1904–1908) * M. C. Ranklin (1908–1912) * J. W. Newman (1912–1916) * Mat S. Cohen (1916–1920) * William C. Hanna (Kentucky), William C. Hanna (1920–1924) * Clell Coleman (1924–1928) * Newton Bright (1928–1932) * Eugene Flowers (1932–1936) * Garth Ferguson (1936–1940) * Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Shell
Jonathan Shell (born December 1, 1987) is an American politician and the agriculture commissioner of Kentucky. A Republican Party (United States), Republican, he is a former member of the Kentucky House of Representatives. He represented District 71 which comprises Garrard, Rockcastle, and a portion of Madison Counties. He served as the Majority Leader of the Kentucky House of Representatives and was the youngest member of the General Assembly. He was defeated by Travis Brenda, a teacher at Rockcastle County High School, in the 2018 Republican primary. In August 2022, Shell announced his candidacy in the 2023 Agriculture Commissioner of Kentucky election. Education Shell earned his bachelor's degree, BA in agribusiness, agricultural business from Eastern Kentucky University. 2012 Election When District 36 Representative Lonnie Napier retired and left the seat open, Shell won the May 22, 2012, Republican Primary with 2,102 votes (59.8%) and won the November 6, 2012, general elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richie Farmer
Richard Dwight Farmer (born August 25, 1969) is an American former collegiate basketball player and Republican Party politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He served as the Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner from 2004 to 2012 and was the running mate of David L. Williams in the 2011 gubernatorial election. After leaving office, Farmer was investigated for violating state campaign finance laws and misappropriating state resources and was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison along with a concurrent 12 months in state prison. A point guard, Farmer led Clay County High School to the 1987 Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) State Basketball Championship and, in 1988, was named Kentucky Mr. Basketball and Kentucky Associated Press Male High School Athlete of the Year after setting a championship game record with 51 points in a losing effort. Although he was popular state-wide and publicly stated his desire to play collegiate basketball for the Kentucky Wil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Ray Smith (politician)
Billy Ray Smith is an American politician from Kentucky Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia ... who was the Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture from 1996 to 2004 and a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1982 to 1995. Smith was first elected to the house in 1981 after incumbent representative Buddy Adams retired. He was elected agriculture commissioner in 1995 after incumbent commissioner Ed Logsdon retired to run for Secretary of State. He was reelected in 1999 and term-limited in 2003. References Living people 21st-century American politicians 20th-century American politicians Year of birth missing (living people) Democratic Party members of the Kentucky House of Representatives {{Kentucky-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Logsdon
Ed, ed or ED may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Ed'' (film), a 1996 film starring Matt LeBlanc * Ed (''Fullmetal Alchemist'') or Edward Elric, a character in ''Fullmetal Alchemist'' media * ''Ed'' (TV series), a TV series that ran from 2000 to 2004 Businesses and organizations * Ed (supermarket), a French brand of discount stores founded in 1978 * Consolidated Edison, from their NYSE stock symbol * United States Department of Education, a department of the United States government * Enforcement Directorate, a law enforcement and economic intelligence agency in India * European Democrats, a loose association of conservative political parties in Europe * Airblue (IATA code ED), a private Pakistani airline * Eagle Dynamics, a Swiss software company Places * Ed, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in the United States * Ed, Sweden, a town in Dals-Ed, Sweden * Erode Junction railway station, station code ED Health and medicine * Eating disorder, mental disorders def ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles L
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was ''Churl, Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinisation of names, Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as ''Carolus (other), Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch language, Dutch and German language, German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ward Burnette
Ward may refer to: Division or unit * Hospital ward, a hospital division, floor, or room set aside for a particular class or group of patients, for example the psychiatric ward * Prison ward, a division of a penal institution such as a prison * Ward (electoral subdivision), electoral district or unit of local government ** Ward (KPK), local government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan ** Ward (South Africa) ** Wards of Bangladesh ** Wards of Germany ** Wards of Japan ** Wards of Myanmar ** Wards and electoral divisions of the United Kingdom ** Ward (United States) *** Wards of New Orleans * Ward (fortification), part of a castle * Ward (LDS Church), a local congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints * Ward (Vietnam), a type of third-tier subdivision of Vietnam Entertainment, arts and media * WOUF (AM), a radio station (750 AM) licensed to serve Petoskey, Michigan, United States, which held the call sign WARD from 2008 to 2021 * Ward Cleaver, a fictiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Boswell (Kentucky Politician)
David E. Boswell is a former Democratic member of the Kentucky Senate, having represented the 8th District from 1990 to 2011. Earlier he was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1978 through 1983. In 1983, he defeated Republican Richard Turner to be elected Agriculture Commissioner of Kentucky with 64%. In 1987, he was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor unsuccessfully in the Democratic Primary on a ticket paired with Grady Stumbo. The Stumbo-Boswell ticket came in fourth. He returned the political arena and was the 2008 Democratic nominee for U.S. Representative for Kentucky's 2nd Congressional District, and lost to Republican nominee Brett Guthrie. The congressional seat became open because of the retirement of Republican Ron Lewis. Boswell's 2008 campaign was endorsed by Democrats for Life of America. although the National Right to Life Committee (generally considered the flagship right-to-life organization in the United States) endorsed his opponent, Gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alben W
Elbling is a variety of white grape (sp. ''Vitis vinifera'') which today is primarily grown in the upstream parts of the Mosel wine, Mosel region in Germany and in Luxembourg, where the river is called Moselle River, Moselle. The variety has a long history, and used to cover much of Germany's vineyards from medieval times and was that country's most cultivated variety until the early 20th century, but has been in decline ever since. As of 2006, there were of Elbling vineyards in Germany, which made it the country's 23rd most grown variety of grape. Of that vineyard surface, 575 ha or 98.6% was found in the Mosel regionGerman Wine Institute: German Wine Statistics 2007-2008 In the same year, there ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas O
Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Indiana * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Thomas'' (Burton novel) 1969 novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendell P
Wendell may refer to: Places in the United States *Wendell, Idaho *Wendell, Massachusetts *Wendell, Minnesota *Wendell, North Carolina People *Wendell (name), a list of people with the name *Wendell (footballer, born 1947) (1947–2022), full name Wendell Lucena Ramalho, Brazilian football manager and former goalkeeper *Wendell (footballer, born 1989), full name Wendell Nogueira de Araújo, Brazilian football midfielder *Wendell (footballer, born 1993) Wendell Nascimento Borges (born 20 July 1993), commonly known as Wendell, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Portuguese club FC Porto. Beginning his career in his native Brazil, Wendell had spells at Iraty, L ..., full name Wendell Nascimento Borges, Brazilian football left-back See also * Wendel (other) {{disambiguation, geo, hndis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emerson Beauchamp
Emerson "Doc" Beauchamp (June 14, 1899 – April 15, 1971) was an American politician from the state of Kentucky. A Democrat, he was elected the 41st Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky in 1951, state Commissioner of Agriculture in 1960, and Kentucky State Treasurer in 1963. Biography Isaac Emerson Beauchamp was born in Logan County, Kentucky on June 14, 1899, the son of Isaac Beauchamp and Ella (Offutt) Beauchamp. The Beauchamp family included several doctors, and Beauchamp's parents hoped he would enter the medical profession, so they called him "Doc" from an early age. Beauchamp became a farmer and was involved in politics from an early age, including serving as a legislative page, serving as assistant clerk and clerk of the Kentucky Senate, and winning election to leadership roles on the Kentucky Democratic State Committee. Beauchamp served in the U.S. Army during World War I and World War II and attained the rank of captain. Beauchamp served as Logan County Clerk (1926-1932) an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
