David L. Williams (politician)

Last updated • 6 min readFrom Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
  1. 1 2 Musgrave, Beth; Brammer, Jack (October 26, 2012). "Senate President David Williams resigns to accept circuit judgeship". Lexington Herald-Leader . Retrieved November 6, 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Cheves, "Leadership Through Conflict"
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Carlton, "David Williams"
  4. 1 2 Baniak, "Williams to be Under Scrutiny as Senate Chief"
  5. 1 2 3 "David Williams' Life and Career". Lexington Herald-Leader
  6. Brammer, Jack (September 10, 2012). "Statement says Senate President David Williams and wife, Robyn Williams, will file for divorce". Lexington Herald-Leader. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
  7. 1 2 Mueller, "Four Legislators Defeated"
  8. "1984 Primary Election Results for the Kentucky House of Representatives". Kentucky Secretary of State. Archived from the original on 2010-08-19. Retrieved 2010-09-07.
  9. Cohn, "Controversies Stir Up Some House Races"
  10. 1 2 3 Brammer, "State Senator Says Kentuckians Need Hope"
  11. 1 2 Roser and Brammer, "Legislature Approves Tax, School Plan
  12. Wolfe, "House Committee OKs Substitute Education Bill"
  13. Roser, "Panel Backs School Package After a Marathon Session"
  14. Wolfe, "Lawmaker Says Governor Used Grants Politically"
  15. 1 2 Brammer, "Senate Races Intensify as Election Nears"
  16. Brammer and Mueller, "Deskins Survives Primary Challenge"
  17. "1986 Primary Election Results for the Kentucky Senate". Kentucky Secretary of State. Archived from the original on 2010-08-20. Retrieved 2010-09-07.
  18. "1986 General Election Results for the Kentucky Senate". Kentucky Secretary of State. Archived from the original on 2010-08-20. Retrieved 2010-09-07.
  19. Cappiello, "Ky. Campaign for Bush Rounds Out Its Leadership"
  20. Rugeley, "McConnell Denies Report He'll Be on Bush Ticket"
  21. Rugeley and Brammer, "General Assembly OKs Bill on Lottery"
  22. Rugeley, "Legislators Pick Leaders From Within Their Parties"
  23. 1 2 Stroud, "Senate OKs School-Reform, Tax Bill"
  24. 1 2 Bishop, "The Best and Worst of 1990's Legislators"
  25. Straub, "Sen. Schmidt Bidding to be GOP Caucus Boss"
  26. "Worthington's Campaign Chief Quits Because of Family Matters". Lexington Herald-Leader
  27. "1990 General Election Results for the Kentucky Senate". Kentucky Secretary of State. Archived from the original on 2010-08-19. Retrieved 2010-09-07.
  28. 1 2 Hicks, "General Assembly 1991"
  29. "Tax Vote Complicates GOP Ticket Strategy". The Kentucky Post
  30. 1 2 "Hopkins Camp Issued $15,000 in Blank Checks".
  31. Lawrence, "Hopkins Praises Local Support"
  32. 1 2 Brammer, "2 Walk Out as Senate Panel OKs Wage Bill"
  33. Breed, "Abortion Bills Mired in Committee"
  34. Hicks, "GOP Suing to Dislodge Abortion Bills"
  35. "Court Ruling Calls Halt to Republicans' Three Abortion Bills". The Kentucky Post
  36. 1 2 "High Court to Hear Abortion-Bills Suit". The Kentucky Post
  37. "State Supreme Court Rejects Challenge of Legislative Rules". Lexington Herald-Leader
  38. The Supreme Court acknowledged that the case was contradictory since a challenge filed before a committee's last meeting of the session would not be allowed to proceed because there would still be a chance for committee action and a challenge filed after a committee's last meeting of the session probably wouldn't be heard until after the end of the session when the Senate rules had already expired.
  39. 1 2 3 Stroud, "Senate Passes Workers' Comp Compromise Bill"
  40. 1 2 Stroud, "Workers' Compensation Reform War of Words Erupts on Floor of Senate, House"
  41. 1 2 3 4 5 Straub, "GOP Candidates: Ford Ripe Target as Incumbent"
  42. Straub, "Campaign '92: Primary Results"
  43. 1 2 3 Gibson, "Election Results 1992"
  44. Straub, "Williams Jabs Ford on Legislative Record"
  45. 1 2 Straub, "Campaign '92: U.S. House and Senate"
  46. 1 2 3 Geiger, "Sen. David Williams Loses Prosecutor's Race to Capps in 29th District"
  47. "Unopposed Candidates". Lexington Herald-Leader
  48. 1 2 3 Carlton and Estep, "Republican Coup Stuns State Senate"
  49. 1 2 Collins, "Senate's Top Man Remains"
  50. Lawrence, "Black Tuesday to Bring Gridlock"
  51. 1 2 Chellgren, "Patton Takes on Colleges"
  52. Chellgren, "Many are Forgotten in Higher Education Reform Debate"
  53. Muhs, "Kafoglis, Long Rated State's Most Effective Lawmakers"
  54. Collins, "Local Legislators Win Praise of Peers"
  55. 1 2 3 4 5 Collins, "Williams in Middle of Republican Legislative Squabble"
  56. 1 2 3 4 5 Collins, "Robinson: Economy, Not Social Agenda, Vital"
  57. Muhs, "Party Balance at Stake in State Legislative Elections"
  58. Collins, "Revenge, Justice and the Cruel, Cruel World of Politics"
  59. Collins, "Democrats Accuse Saunders of Selling Out to GOP"
  60. 1 2 Baniak, "Tied Senate Portends a Hot Session"
  61. "Dem's Switch Gives GOP Senate Control". The Kentucky Post
  62. 1 2 3 4 Baniak, "Senate Leaders Rattle Their Sabers"
  63. Brammer and Baniak, "Saunders Says He'll Quit Top Post in Senate"
  64. 1 2 3 "GOP's top senator: I'm for Patton". The Kentucky Post
  65. Blanchard, p. 259
  66. 1 2 3 4 Collins, "Historic power shift smooth"
  67. 1 2 Brammer, "Legislative Leaders Cool to Tax Plan"
  68. 1 2 3 Baniak and Brammer, "Session Spins to a Close in Frankfort"
  69. Brammer and Baniak, "Patton Criticized for Change on Workers' Comp"
  70. Lindenberger, "Change outrages Senate president"
  71. 1 2 Lawrence, "Senate president accuses governor of trying to oust him"
  72. 1 2 3 4 Collins, "Patton, senator trade trash talk"
  73. Brammer and Blackford, "Republicans Retain 20-18 Majority"
  74. 1 2 "History in the Making". Lexington Herald-Leader
  75. 1 2 3 4 Kinney, "Political wrestling obscured legislative session"
  76. Kinney, "Deal will allow interim meetings"
  77. 1 2 3 4 Kinney, "GOP's new power will heat up redistricting battle"
  78. 1 2 3 Brammer, "Democrats Contend Census Left Out 50,000"
  79. "Census Decision Not to Use Adjusted Data is Criticized". Lexington Herald-Leader
  80. 1 2 Brammer, "Democrats Redraw Voting Districts"
  81. Kinney, "First Days of Legislative Session Nasty as Expected"
  82. 1 2 Brammer, "Redrawn District Lines Signed Into Law By Patton"
  83. Brammer, "David Williams and Richie Farmer form slate to seek state's top offices"

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ernie Fletcher</span> American physician and politician (born 1952)

Ernest Lee Fletcher is an American physician and politician who was the 60th governor of Kentucky from 2003 to 2007. He previously served three consecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives before resigning after being elected governor. A member of the Republican Party, Fletcher was a family practice physician and a Baptist lay minister and is the second physician to be elected Governor of Kentucky; the first was Luke P. Blackburn in 1879. He was also the first Republican governor of Kentucky since Louie Nunn left office in 1971.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wendell Ford</span> American politician (1924–2015)

Wendell Hampton Ford was an American politician from Kentucky. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as Governor of Kentucky from 1971 to 1974, and as a member of the United States Senate for 24 years from 1974 to 1999. He was the first person to be successively elected lieutenant governor, governor, and United States senator in Kentucky history. He was the Senate Democratic whip from 1991 to 1999, and was considered the leader of the state's Democratic Party from his election as governor in 1971 until he retired from the Senate in 1999. At the time of his retirement he was the longest-serving senator in Kentucky's history, a mark which was then surpassed by Mitch McConnell in 2009. Ford is the last Democrat to have served as a Senator from the state of Kentucky.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Brereton C. Jones</span> American politician (1939–2023)

Brereton Chandler Jones was an American politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. From 1991 to 1995, he was the state's 58th governor, and had served from 1987 to 1991 as the 50th lieutenant governor of Kentucky. After his governorship, he chaired the Kentucky Equine Education Project (KEEP), a lobbying organization for the Kentucky horse industry.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paul E. Patton</span> American politician

Paul Edward Patton is an American politician who served as the 59th governor of Kentucky from 1995 to 2003. Because of a 1992 amendment to the Kentucky Constitution, he was the first governor eligible to run for a second term in office, since James Garrard, in 1800. Since 2013, he has been the chancellor of the University of Pikeville in Pikeville, Kentucky, after serving as its president from 2010 to 2013. He also served as chairman of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education from 2009 to 2011.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Martha Layne Collins</span> American businesswoman and politician

Colonel Martha Layne Collins is an American former businesswoman and politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky; she served as the state's 56th governor from 1983 to 1987, the first woman to hold the office and the only one to date. Prior to that, she served as the 48th Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky, under John Y. Brown Jr. Her election made her the highest-ranking Democratic woman in the U.S. She was considered as a possible running mate for Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale in the 1984 presidential election, but Mondale chose Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro instead.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wallace Wilkinson</span> American politician

Wallace Glenn Wilkinson was an American businessman and politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. From 1987 to 1991, he served as the state's 57th governor. Wilkinson dropped out of college at the University of Kentucky in 1962 to attend to a book retail business he started. The business rapidly became a national success, and Wilkinson re-invested his profits in real estate, farming, transportation, banking, coal, and construction ventures, becoming extremely wealthy. In 1987, he joined a crowded field in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. After running behind two former governors and the sitting lieutenant governor for most of the race, Wilkinson began to climb in the polls after hiring then-unknown campaign consultant James Carville. Wilkinson campaigned on a promise of no new taxes and advocated a state lottery as an alternative means of raising money for the state. Wilkinson surprised most political observers by winning the primary and going on to defeat his Republican challenger in the general election.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jack Conway (politician)</span> American politician from Kentucky

John William Conway is an American lawyer and politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. A member of the Democratic Party, Conway served as the 49th attorney general of Kentucky from January 7, 2008, to January 4, 2016. Prior to his election as attorney general, he was the nominee for Kentucky's 3rd congressional district in the 2002 elections, narrowly losing to Republican incumbent Anne Northup.

President of the Kentucky Senate is an office created by a 1992 amendment to the Constitution of Kentucky. The president of the Senate is the highest-ranking officer of that body and presides over the Senate.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bryan Simonaire</span> American politician (born 1963)

Bryan Warner Simonaire is an American politician who serves as a Maryland state senator representing District 31, which encompasses much of northern Anne Arundel County's Baltimore suburbs. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the minority leader of the Maryland Senate from 2020 to 2023.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mark Scheffel</span> American politician

Mark Scheffel is an American politician and a former Majority Leader of the Colorado Senate. First elected to the Colorado State Senate as a Republican in 2008, Scheffel represented Senate District 4 in Douglas County, which encompasses Castle Rock, Larkspur, Parker, Franktown, and Castle Pines. Term limited, he did not run for re-election in the 2016 elections, so his term ended in January, 2017.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Steve Beshear</span> Governor of Kentucky from 2007 to 2015

Steven Lynn Beshear is an American attorney and politician who served as the 61st governor of Kentucky from 2007 to 2015. He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1974 to 1980, was the state's 44th attorney general from 1980 to 1983 and was the 49th lieutenant governor from 1983 to 1987.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2011 Kentucky Secretary of State election</span>

The 2011 Kentucky Secretary of State election was held on November 8, 2011, to elect the Secretary of State of Kentucky. Primaries for this election were held on Tuesday, May 17, 2011. In the general election, Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes defeated Republican Bill Johnson.

Bertram Robert Stivers II is a Republican member of the Kentucky Senate representing the 25th Senate District since 1997. He served as the Republican Majority Leader of the Kentucky State Senate through 2012 and became the President of the Kentucky Senate on the opening day of the 2013 legislative session on January 8.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paul Gazelka</span> American politician

Paul E. Gazelka is an American politician and small business owner from Minnesota. A Republican, Gazelka was a member of the Minnesota Senate and was previously a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. In the state senate, Gazelka served as majority leader from 2017 to 2021.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1992 United States Senate election in Kentucky</span>

The 1992 United States Senate election in Kentucky took place on November 3, 1992. It was concurrent with elections to the United States House of Representatives. Incumbent Senator Wendell Ford won reelection to a fourth and final term. As of 2023, this was the last time Democrats won a U.S. Senate election in Kentucky.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andy Barr (American politician)</span> American politician (born 1973)

Garland Hale "Andy" Barr IV is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Kentucky's 6th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served in the administration of Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Matt Bevin</span> Governor of Kentucky from 2015 to 2019

Matthew Griswold Bevin is an American businessman and politician who served as the 62nd governor of Kentucky from 2015 to 2019. He is currently the CEO of Neuronetrix Solutions, LLC.

Walter Arnold Baker was an American lawyer and politician who served in both houses of the Kentucky General Assembly, in the presidential administration of Ronald Reagan, and on the Kentucky Supreme Court. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Baker also served as a judge advocate general in the Kentucky Air National Guard for 20 years.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Claudia Riner</span> 20th century American politician

Claudia Riner is an American politician who served in the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1978 to 1981, representing the 36th district. She was the first woman from Madisonville, Kentucky, to hold high public office. Riner was characterized by colleagues in the legislature as a polarizing figure, due to her conservatism and religious activism, but she was also known as a persistent and adept legislator. She proposed multiple bills related to her Christian values, including her most well-known "Ten Commandments law", requiring that a copy of the Ten Commandments be posted in a plaque in every Kentucky classroom. She also proposed bills to teach creation science in public schools, ban the sale and distribution of pornography to minors, and require that misdemeanor offenders compensate their victims.

Larry L. Saunders was an American politician from Kentucky who was a member of the Kentucky Senate from 1986 to 1989 and 1993 to 2005, serving as the president of the Senate from 1997 to 2000. Saunders was first elected to the senate in a November 1986 special election following the resignation of incumbent senator Danny Yocom. He was defeated for the Democratic nomination for a full term in 1998 by Dan Seum. Saunders defeated Seum in a rematch in 1992, and served until he retired from the senate in 2004.

References

David Williams
David L. Williams.jpg
Judge of the 40th Kentucky Circuit Court
Assumed office
November 2, 2012
Kentucky Senate
Preceded by Member of the Kentucky Senate
from the 16th district

1987–2012
Succeeded by
Preceded by President of the Kentucky Senate
2000–2012
Succeeded by
Party political offices
Preceded by Republican nominee for U.S. senator from Kentucky
(Class 3)

1992
Succeeded by
Preceded by Republican nominee for Governor of Kentucky
2011
Succeeded by