# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/keen-johnson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:21:20.348Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/keen-johnson"
name: "Keen Johnson"
slug: "keen-johnson"
description: "Keen Johnson was an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Kentucky, serving from 1939 to 1943; being the only journalist to have held that office. After serving in World War I, Johnson purchased and edited the Elizabethtown Mirror newspaper. He revived the struggling paper, sold it to a competitor and used the profits to obtain his journalism degree from the University of Kentucky in 1922. After graduation, he became editor of The Anderson News, and in 1925, he accepted an offer to co-publish and edit the Richmond Daily Register."
tagline: "45th Governor of Kentucky (1896-1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Keen_Johnson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1896-01-12"
deathDate: "1970-02-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.640157514017891
  historical:           13.75180133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump