Louie R. Guenthner Jr. (August 9, 1944 – August 7, 2012), was an attorney from

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, who was a

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former member of the

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, having represented the 48th District in Jefferson County from 1973 to 1988. The district included the affluent areas of Indian Hills and Prospect. He was defeated in the 1988 primary election for re-nomination to the state House by his fellow Republican, Susan Bush Stokes. He had two children, Melissa Guenthner (now Atkins) and Louis Robert Guenthner, III. He was married to Betty Guenthner, who died in 2007. Guenthner was the Republican nominee in the

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; he lost to the incumbent

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Walter Huddleston Walter Darlington "Dee" Huddleston (April 15, 1926 – October 16, 2018) was an American politician. He was a Democrat from Kentucky who represented the state in the United States Senate from 1973 until 1985. Huddleston lost his 1984 Senate re- ...

. Six years later,

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, also of Jefferson County, upset Huddleston, who then became a

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,-based

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. Guenthner also made an unsuccessful run for Jefferson County judge-executive in 1985.

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