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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approbative (adj): Giving approval; sanctioning http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/approbative

___________________________ 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