Collection Title: Jackson Purchase Oral History Project – Politics and Government
Series Number: OH168 (Session 1)
Interviewee: Nunn, Louie Broady
Interviewer: James W. Hammack, Jr.
Date interviewed: September 25-26, 1973
Processed by: Benjamin J. Drake
Date processed: March 28, 2012
Description: 9 sound discs (6 hours, 31 minutes)
Abstract: Louie Broady Nunn discusses his political career as a member of Republican Party in the State of Kentucky. He discusses his education, legal practice and tenure as county judge for Barren County. He describes his political activities during local and state elections. Nunn further examines his campaign for the governorship and the major issues that separated Republican and Democratic parties in the state.
Biographical / Historical note: Louie Broady Nunn was born on March 8, 1924 in Barren County, Kentucky. He attended Hiseville High School where he graduated in 1941. He attended Bowling Green Business University and prior to entering the United States Army attended Tri-State Aviation School in Cincinnati, Ohio. He enlisted in the infantry after attempts to join the Army Air Corps failed. After the war, he pursued a pre-law degree from the University of Cincinnati and in 1950 graduated with a degree in law from the University of Louisville. Nunn opened a law firm in Glasgow and became active in politics. He was elected Barren County Judge on the Republican ticket in 1953 and as governor in 1967. He was a campaign manger during the presidential campaigns of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. In 1974 he ran for a seat in the United States Senate and for Governor in 1979. He was met with defeated in both elections. He died on January 29, 2004.
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Subject Headings / Descriptors:
Nunn, Louie Broady, 1924-2004
Barren County – History.
Hiseville (Ky.)<
Governors – Kentucky.
Kentucky – Politics and government.
United States – Politics and government.
