Lebanon is a home rule-class city and the county seat of Marion County,Kentucky,in the United States. The population was 6,274 at the 2020 census,up from 5,539 in 2010. Lebanon is located in central Kentucky,63 miles (101 km) southeast of Louisville. A national cemetery is nearby.
Louisville Male Traditional High School is a public co-ed secondary school serving students in grades 9 through 12 in the southside of Louisville,Kentucky,USA. It is part of the Jefferson County Public School District.
Walter Darlington "Dee" Huddleston was an American commercial broadcaster and politician from Kentucky. A member of the Democratic Party,he served two terms as a member of the United States Senate from 1973 to 1985. He was defeated for re-election in 1984 by Mitch McConnell by 5,269 votes.
Thelma Loyace Stovall was a pioneering American politician in the state of Kentucky. In 1949,she won election as state representative for Louisville and served three consecutive terms. Over the next two decades,Stovall was elected Kentucky State Treasurer twice and Secretary of State of Kentucky three times. She capped her career as the 47th Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky (1975–1979) in the administration of her fellow Democrat,Governor Julian Carroll. She was the first woman to hold the office.
Central High School is a public high school founded in 1870,and located in downtown Louisville,Kentucky,United States.
Scott County High School is a public high school in Georgetown,Kentucky,United States. The mascot is a Cardinal. School colors are Red and Blue,with white and black occasionally serving as secondary colors. In the 2018–19 school year,its last as the county's only public high school,the combined institution had an enrollment of 2,486,making it the largest high school in the state,before rival school Great Crossing High School opened across town just in time for the 2019–2020 school year. The 9th Grade Center,a section of the building where all of the 9th grade classes were located,along with a separate library,cafeteria,and gym,was replaced by the new "Phoenix Horizon" a program where kids who were struggling in normal classes,or having behavior issues could go and learn without the distractions of a normal classroom.
Fairdale High School is a high school located in the Fairdale area of Louisville,Kentucky,United States. It is part of the Jefferson County Public Schools. As of the 2013–14 school year,there were 1,804 students at the school.
James Edwards Cantrill was elected the 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky serving from 1879 to 1883 under Governor Luke P. Blackburn. He also served as a circuit court judge starting in 1892,and in 1898 was elected to the Court of Appeals bench.
The U.S. State of Kentucky is currently home to two professional soccer teams:Louisville City FC,which plays in the USL Championship,and Racing Louisville FC,which plays in the NWSL. Kentucky has had professional sports teams in its past,such as the Louisville Brecks/Colonels of the NFL in the early 1920s.
Larry A. Ryle High School is a public secondary school located in Union,Kentucky. The school's mascot is the Raiders.
Flaget High School was a Catholic College preparatory high school in Louisville,Kentucky's West End from 1942 until 1974. It was located throughout its existence at 44th and River Park Drive,in the Shawnee neighborhood of Louisville.
Fort Thomas Highlands High School,also known as Fort Thomas Highlands,is a public secondary school located in Fort Thomas,Kentucky. Operated by Fort Thomas Independent Schools,Highlands was founded in 1888. The school took its name from the original name of Fort Thomas,"The Highlands". Enrollment for the 2018–19 school year was 1,036 in grades 9-12.
Georgia Davis Powers was an American politician who served for 21 years as a state senator in the Kentucky Senate. In 1967,she was the first person of color elected to the senate. During her term,she was "regarded as the leading advocate for blacks,women,children,the poor,and the handicapped," and was the chair of the Health and Welfare committee from 1970 to 1976 and the Labor and Industry committee from 1978 to 1988.
Lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender (LGBT) people in the U.S. state of Kentucky still face some legal challenges not experienced by other people. Same-sex sexual activity in Kentucky has been legally permitted since 1992,although the state legislature has not repealed its sodomy statute for same-sex couples. Same-sex marriage is legal in Kentucky under the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges. The decision,which struck down Kentucky's statutory and constitutional bans on same-sex marriages and all other same-sex marriage bans elsewhere in the country,was handed down on June 26,2015.
Carroll Hubbard Jr. was an American politician and attorney from Kentucky. He began his political career in the Kentucky Senate,and was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1974. He served until he was defeated in 1992,after becoming embroiled in the House banking scandal,and ultimately spent two years in prison. After being released,Hubbard ran unsuccessfully for the Kentucky General Assembly on four occasions.
Walter Stewart "Stu" Reichert was an American politician in the state of Kentucky. He served in the Kentucky Senate and in the Kentucky House of Representatives. He was a Republican. On June 15,1972,Reichert was one of 11 Republican senators that voted against Kentucky's ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Abortion is illegal in Kentucky. There were laws in Kentucky about abortion by 1900,including ones with therapeutic exceptions. In 1998,the state passed legislation that required clinics to have an abortion clinic license if they wanted to operate. By the early 2010s,members of the Kentucky Legislature attempted to ban abortion in almost all cases and had also introduced the early abortion bans. Prior to 2019,Kentucky law prohibited abortions after week 22. This changed when the state legislature passed a law that moved the prohibition to week 6 in the early part of the year. A bill passed and made effective in April 2022 lowered the threshold to 15 weeks,the second most restrictive limit in effect in the United States behind Texas,and introduced regulations that made abortion illegal until it was blocked in federal court.
Karen Berg is a physician and professor who also serves in the Kentucky State Senate,representing the 26th District. She was elected to the Kentucky Senate as a Democrat in a special election held on June 23,2020,defeating Bill Ferko. She succeeded Senator Ernie Harris,who resigned on April 15,2020. She is the only Jewish member of the Kentucky State Senate.
George Maxwell Wise is an American politician and former FBI agent,serving as a member of the Kentucky Senate from the 16th district. He assumed office in the Kentucky Senate on January 1,2015. Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft chose Wise to be her running mate in the 2023 Kentucky gubernatorial election. The pair subsequently lost the primary.
Keturah Herron is an American politician from Kentucky. They are a Democrat and represent District 42 in the State House. When elected in 2022,they were the first out LGBTQ+ member in the Kentucky House of Representatives. They are only the second out member of the Kentucky General Assembly following Ernesto Scorsone,former state senator,who came out while in office in 2003. After Scorsone left the legislature in 2008,there was no LGBTQ+ representation in either chamber until Herron.
