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    Kentucky Scandal: William Goebel's Life and Death
    Kentucky Scandal: William Goebel's Life and Death
    Kentucky Scandal: William Goebel's Life and Death
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    Kentucky Scandal: William Goebel's Life and Death

    By Alfred D. Byrd

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    Did you know that Kentucky had the only American politician who was assassinated and then became governor? William Goebel, master of machine politics and even greater master of making enemies, was in the throes of a disputed gubernatorial election that'd be decided by Kentucky's Senate when a shot rang out, mortally wounding him. He'd die within days, but not before a Democrat-controlled legislature had named him governor instead of his Republican opponent, who'd won the Commonwealth's popular vote. Civil war nearly broke out in the streets of Frankfort, Kentucky's capital (not Louisville, as Americans interviewed on the street like to tell you), before wise heads prevailed. In life, Goebel created for Kentucky a legacy of cutthroat politics; in death, he's left the Commonwealth an insoluble mystery: which of his countless enemies gunned him down on the capitol's grounds? Does Goebel's contentious life and outrageous death hold lessons for us today? Let's never forget the immortal Santayana's teaching: "Those who forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlfred D. Byrd
    Release dateNov 11, 2019
    ISBN9780463058626
    Kentucky Scandal: William Goebel's Life and Death
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    Alfred D. Byrd

    I'm a graduate of Hazel Park High School, Hazel Park MI, and I've earned a B. S. in Medical Technology at Michigan State University and an M. S. in Microbiology at the University of Kentucky.My interests are Christian theology and history, Civil War history, science fiction, and fantasy. I've published a number of works, in prose or in epic verse, on these subjects.A number of my works are available from Amazon and other major on-line book distributors. I've also sold four short stories or novellas to science fiction or fantasy anthologies.

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      Kentucky Scandal - Alfred D. Byrd

      KENTUCKY SCANDAL:

      WILLIAM GOEBEL’S LIFE AND DEATH

      Alfred D. Byrd

      Copyright © 2019 Alfred D. Byrd

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      Thank you for downloading this e book. This book remains the copyrighted property of the author and may not be redistributed to others for commercial or non-commercial purposes. If you enjoyed this book, please encourage your friends to download their own copy from their favorite authorized retailer. Thank you for your support.

      An earlier version of this e book appeared as a pair of articles in issues of The Reluctant Famulus, edited by Thomas D. Sadler.

      The cover illustration is detail from an artist’s sketch published in Harper’s Weekly in 1900 and is in the public domain.

      I’ve read that Robert Penn Warren denied that All the King’s Men was about legendary Huey Kingfish Long of Louisiana. Penn Warren may’ve told the truth. A native Kentuckian, he could’ve based his novel of cutthroat politics on the outrageous career of Progressive Democrat William Goebel, the only American governor to die in office of an assassin’s wounds.

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      William Goebel was unlikely to become Kentucky’s governor. Born in Pennsylvania in 1856 as Wilhelm Goebel and speaking only German until he was six years old, he was the firstborn son of immigrants struggling to make ends meet in the New World. His family’s fortunes rose when his father, returning from service in the Union army in the Civil War, moved his household

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