Edwin P. Morrow (1877–1935) served as the 40th Governor of Kentucky
from 1919 to 1923. He was the only Republican elected to this office
between 1907 and 1927. After rendering non-combat service in the
Spanish–American War, Morrow graduated from the University of
Cincinnati Law School in 1902 and opened his practice in Lexington,
Kentucky. He was appointed U.S. District Attorney for the Eastern
District of Kentucky by President William Howard Taft in 1910 and
served until he was removed from office in 1913 by President Woodrow
Wilson. In 1915, he ran for governor against his good friend, Augustus
O. Stanley. Stanley won the election by 471 votes, making the 1915
contest the closest gubernatorial race in the state's history. Morrow
ran for governor again in 1919. He encouraged voters to "Right the
Wrong of 1915" and ran on a progressive platform that included women's
suffrage and quelling racial violence. He charged the Democratic
administration with corruption, citing specific examples, and won the
general election in a landslide. With a friendly legislature in 1920,
he passed much of his agenda into law including an anti-lynching law
and a reorganization of state government. By 1922, Democrats regained
control of the General Assembly, and Morrow was not able to accomplish
much in the second half of his term. Following his term as governor, he
served on the United States Railroad Labor Board and the Railway
Mediation Board.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1494:
A 7.5 Mw earthquake struck Port Royal, Jamaica, killing about 2,000
people.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1692_Jamaica_earthquake>
1776:
Virginia statesman Richard Henry Lee presented a resolution to the
Second Continental Congress, which called for the Thirteen Colonies to
declare independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Resolution>
1880:
War of the Pacific: Chilean forces captured Morro de Arica from Peru.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Arica>
1981:
The Israeli Air Force attacked and disabled the Osirak nuclear reactor,
assuming it was producing plutonium to further an Iraqi nuclear weapons
program.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Opera>
1982:
Graceland, Elvis Presley's mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, opened to the
public.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graceland>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
approbative (adj):
Giving approval; sanctioning
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/approbative>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I
can hold completely different points of view and both be right. The
difference of our positions will show stars in your window I cannot
even imagine. Your sky may burn with light, while mine, at the same
moment, spreads beautiful to darkness. Still we must choose how we
separately corner the circling universe of our experience. Once chosen,
our cornering will determine the message of any star and darkness we
encounter.
--June Jordan
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/June_Jordan>