Public Papers of Governor Simeon Willis, 1943-1947

During the period from 1931 to 1967-thirty-six years-Kentuckians elected only one Republican as governor of the Commonwealth. Yet that man, a former justice of the state's highest court, seldom appears as other than a footnote in the standard histories. That is unfortunate, for Simeon Willis of Ashland made a fine record as governor, assuming the office during World War II and leaving it strengthe...