James Bernard Yates Sr. was an American politician in the state of

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 to ...

. He served in the

Kentucky House of Representatives The Kentucky House of Representatives is the lower house of the Kentucky General Assembly. It is composed of 100 Representatives elected from single-member districts throughout the Commonwealth. Not more than two counties can be joined to form ...

as a Democrat from 1972 to 1995. Yates was first elected to the house in a May 1972 special election following the resignation of incumbent representative James Yocom. He did not seek reelection in 1994 and resigned from his seat early in June.

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1929 births 2021 deaths Democratic Party members of the Kentucky House of Representatives 20th-century American politicians Politicians from Louisville, Kentucky {{Kentucky-politician-stub