The list of those who have lain in state in the Kentucky Capitol
Wendell Ford, who served four terms in the U.S. Senate after being governor of Kentucky, on Sunday will be the 21st person in Kentucky’s history to lie in state in the Kentucky Capitol. Here are the other 20:
- Daniel Boone, pioneer, 1845
- Rebecca Boone, pioneer, 1845
- J.S.C. Blackburn, former U.S. senator, September 1918
- Augustus Owsley Stanley, former governor, August 1958
- Tom Garrett, state senator from Paducah, February 1979
- Harland Sanders, Creator of Kentucky Fried Chicken, December 1980
- A.B. “Happy” Chandler, former governor, U.S. senator and baseball commissioner, June 1991
- Bert T. Combs, former governor, December 1991
- Thelma Stovall, former lieutenant governor, February 1994
- Lawrence W. Wetherby, former governor, March 1994
- Wilson W. Wyatt, former lieutenant governor, June 1996
- Vic Hellard, Jr., former executive director of the Legislative Research Commission, September 1996
- Mary Louise Foust, former state auditor, December 1999
- Wendell P. Butler, former state legislator, January 2000
- Robert Stephens, former Kentucky Supreme Court chief justice, April 2002
- Kenny Rapier, former state legislator and parks commissioner, August 2002
- Edward T. “Ned” Breathitt, former governor, October 2003
- Louie B. Nunn, former governor, February 2004
- William McAnulty Jr., Kentucky Supreme Court justice, August 2007
- Mike Haydon, governor’s chief of staff and former legislator, August 2012
This story was originally published January 23, 2015 at 5:21 PM with the headline "The list of those who have lain in state in the Kentucky Capitol."