John Mitchel Owen "Bam" Carney (September 30, 1969 – July 17, 2021) was an American politician from 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 ...

from 2009 until his death in 2021 from complications of

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. Carney also served as the Republican house majority floor leader from 2019 to 2021.John Mitchel Owen Carney
obituary He was also an educator and high school coach, with degrees from Berea College and Eastern Kentucky University.

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