Richie Farmer (born August 25, 1969) is a former collegiate basketball player and Republican Party politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He led Clay County High School to the 1987 state high school boys' basketball championship, scoring a championship game record 51 points and being named 1988's Kentucky Mr. Basketball. He played collegiately for the Kentucky Wildcats. In his senior year, the team reached the Elite Eight of the 1992 NCAA Tournament, losing to Duke in one of the most memorable college basketball games ever. He served as Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner from 2004 to 2012, winning two terms by large margins. Kentucky Senate President David L. Williams made Farmer his running mate in the 2011 gubernatorial election, but their ticket was defeated. After leaving office as commissioner, Farmer was investigated for corruption and was eventually sentenced to 27 months in federal prison. He was released from a halfway house in 2016.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1875:
Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel, completing the journey in approximately 21 hours and 40 minutes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Webb
1920:
Polish forces under Józef Piłsudski successfully forced the Russians to withdraw from Warsaw at the Battle of Warsaw, the decisive battle of the Polish–Soviet War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Warsaw_%281920%29
1950:
In tennis, Althea Gibson became the first African-American woman to compete at the United States National Championships (now known as the US Open). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althea_Gibson
1989:
The Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Neptune and provided definitive proof of the existence of the planet's rings (pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Neptune
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
or bust: (chiefly US, informal) Used to indicate one's intention to do everything possible to achieve a goal, with failure being the only alternative. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/or_bust
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Should there not be manifest progress and development but in a higher sense than people have imagined it? ... No one is in his age alone, he builds on the preceding one, this becomes nothing but the foundation of the future, wants to be nothing but that — this is what we are told by the analogy in nature, God’s speaking exemplary model in all works! Manifestly so in the human species! --Johann Gottfried Herder https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Johann_Gottfried_Herder
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