Bert T. Combs
✓ Source-basedstableAmerican federal judge; governor of Kentucky (1911-1991)
Bertram Thomas Combs was an American jurist and politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. After serving on the Kentucky Court of Appeals, he was elected the 50th governor of Kentucky in 1959 on his second run for the office.
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Happy Chandler, Combs' opponent in the 1955 gubernatorial race
The Albert B. Chandler Hospital was completed with funds from Combs' first biennial budget.
The floral clock in Frankfort
Wendell Ford defeated Combs in the 1971 Democratic gubernatorial primary.
Gov. Martha Layne Collins' education reforms were not substantial enough to prevent the Council for Better Education from suing the state.
Grave marker of Bert Combs in Beech Creek CemeteryAwards 1
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Bertram Thomas Combs was an American jurist and politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. After serving on the Kentucky Court of Appeals, he was elected the 50th governor of Kentucky in 1959 on his second run for the office. Following his gubernatorial term, he was appointed to serve as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit by President Lyndon B. Johnson, serving from 1967 to 1970.
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