John Y. Brown Jr.

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John Young Brown Jr. (born December 28, 1933) is an

American politician, entrepreneur, and businessman from the John Brown
U.S. state of Kentucky. He served as the 55th governor of
Kentucky from 1979 to 1983, although he may be best
known for building Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) into a
multimillion-dollar restaurant chain. Currently single, he has
been married three times, the second time to former Miss
America Phyllis George. Among his children are news
anchor Pamela Ashley Brown and former Secretary of State
of Kentucky John Y. Brown, III.

The son of a U.S. congressman, Brown's talent for business

became evident in college, where he made a substantial
amount of money selling Encyclopdia Britannica sets.
After briefly practicing law with his father, he purchased
Kentucky Fried Chicken from founder Harland Sanders in
1964. Brown turned the company into a worldwide success,
and sold his interest in the company for a huge profit in
1971. He then invested in several other restaurant ventures, 55th Governor of Kentucky
but none matched the success of KFC. During the 1970s, he
In office
also owned, at various times, three professional basketball
December 11, 1979 December 13, 1983
teams the American Basketball Association's Kentucky
Colonels, and the National Basketball Association's Boston Lieutenant Martha Collins
Celtics and Buffalo Braves (currently the Los Angeles Preceded by Julian Carroll
Clippers).
Succeeded by Martha Collins
Despite having previously shown little inclination toward Personal details
politics, Brown surprised political observers by declaring his
Born John Young Brown Jr.
candidacy for governor in 1979. With the state and nation
facing difficult economic times, Brown promised to run the December 28, 1933
state government like a business. A strong media campaign Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.
funded by his personal fortune allowed him to win the Political party Democratic
Democratic primary and go on to defeat former Republican
Spouse(s) Eleanor Durall (19601977)
governor Louie B. Nunn in the general election. Because he
owed few favors to established political leaders, he Phyllis George (19791998)
appointed many successful businesspeople to state posts Jill Roach (19982003)
instead of making political appointments. Following through Relations John Y. Brown Sr. (Father)
on his campaign promise to make more diverse
appointments, he named a woman and an African-American Children 4 (including John and Pamela)
to his cabinet. During his tenure, Brown exerted less Education University of Kentucky (BA, LLB)
influence over the legislature than previous governors and
Military service
was frequently absent from the state, leaving lieutenant
governor Martha Layne Collins as acting governor for more Allegiance United States
than one quarter of his term. He briefly considered a run for Service/branch United States Army
the U.S. Senate after his gubernatorial term, but withdrew
Years of service 19591965
from the race after only three weeks, citing health issues. He
has continued to invest in business ventures, the most high Unit U.S. Army Reserve
profile of which was Kenny Rogers Roasters, a wood-roasted
chicken restaurant he founded with country music star Kenny Rogers.
Contents
1 Early life
2 Business ventures
3 Basketball ventures
4 Political career
4.1 Gubernatorial election of 1979
4.2 Renovation of Governor's Mansion
4.3 Governorship
4.4 Later political career
5 Later life
6 References
6.1 Bibliography
7 Further reading

Early life
Brown was born on December 28, 1933 in Lexington, Kentucky.[1] He was the only son of the five children
born to John Y. and Dorothy (Inman) Brown.[2] His father was a member of the U.S. Congress from Kentucky
and a member of the Kentucky state legislature for nearly three decades, including a term as Speaker of the
House. John Sr. was named for, but not related to, the nineteenth century governor of the same name.[3][4] A
1979 People magazine article recounts that the elder Brown's nine unsuccessful political races for either
governor or the U.S. Senate took a toll on his family and left his mother resentful of all the money spent on
campaigns.[2]

Brown attended Lafayette High School in Lexington, where he was a seventeen-time letterman in various
sports.[2][5] During one summer, his father expressed disappointment that he had decided to spend the summer
selling vacuum cleaners instead of working on a road construction crew with the rest of his football
teammates.[2] Motivated by his father's disapproval, Brown averaged $1,000 in monthly commissions from
vacuum cleaner sales.[2] After high school, Brown matriculated to the University of Kentucky, where he earned
a bachelor's degree in 1957 and a law degree in 1960.[5][6] While in law school, he made as much as $25,000 a
year selling Encyclopdia Britannica sets, and employed a sales crew made up of classmates to increase his
profits.[2]

Brown joined his father's law practice after earning his law degree.[6] From 1959 to 1965, he also served in the
United States Army Reserve.[1][6] He served as legal counsel for Paul Hornung when Hornung was suspended
for the 1963 National Football League season for gambling.[7] After only a few years, Brown left his father's
law firm and began a career in business.[6]

Business ventures
In 1960, Brown married Eleanor Bennett Durall and had three children John Y. Brown, III, Eleanor Faris, and
Sandra Bennett.[8] He got his wife involved in managing a barbecue restaurant; upon seeing its success, he
became convinced of the financial potential of the fast food industry.[6][9] During a 1963 political breakfast,
Brown met Colonel Harland Sanders, the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), and the two discussed
selling Sanders' chicken in Brown's chain of barbecue restaurants.[2] By 1964, Brown had assembled a group of
investors to purchase KFC from Sanders for $2 million (equivalent to $15,444,206 in 2016).[2] The investment
group changed the restaurant's format from the diner-style restaurant envisioned by Sanders to a fast-food take
out model.[10] Giving all their restaurants a distinct red-and-white striped color pattern, the group opened over
1,500 restaurants, including locations in all 50 U.S. states and several international locations.[10] By 1967, KFC
had become the nation's sixth largest restaurant chain by volume and first offered its stock for public purchase
in 1969.[10]

For his work with KFC, Brown was named one of the Outstanding Young Men of America by the Junior
Chamber of Commerce in 1966; the following year, the Chamber named him one of the Outstanding Civic
Leaders of America.[11] Eventually, he became a member of both the Kentucky and Louisville Chambers of
Commerce.[11] The Louisville Junior Chamber of Commerce honored him as Louisville's Outstanding Young
Man in 1969, and he was inducted into the University of Kentucky Alumni Association Hall of Distinguished
Alumni on November 6, 1970.[11]

In 1971, Brown sold his interest in KFC to Heublein for $284 million (equivalent to $1,679,497,124 in
2016.[12] Using some of the profits from the KFC sale, Brown and some associates bought the Miami-based
Lum's chain of restaurants from its founders, Stuart and Clifford S Perlman, for $4 million.[2][13] Of the 340-
outlet beer-and-hot-dog chain, Brown said "they did not have very good food. I figured that upgrading it would
be my first task."[13] Accordingly, he hired a group of young executives to find "the perfect hamburger".[13] A
month later, he hired Ollie Gleichenhaus, owner of a hamburger restaurant in Miami Beach, Florida, to train
Lum's staff to create his hamburgers.[13] He later started a chain of drive-through restaurants called Ollie's
Trolley, named for Gleichenhaus, but the franchise failed.[14] Lions Club International at Tampa, Florida,
honored Brown with its Service to America Award in 1974.[11] Brown sold the Lum's chain for $9.5 million to
Friedrich Jahn's Wienerwald holding group in 1978.[2][15] A few years later, Brown launched John Y's Chicken,
a venture which also subsequently failed.[14]

Basketball ventures
Concurrent with his post-KFC business ventures, Brown purchased an
ownership stake in several professional basketball teams. In 1970, Wendell
Cherry assembled a group that included Brown to buy the American Basketball
Association's (ABA) Kentucky Colonels.[16] Following the 197273 season,
Cherry sold his interest in the Colonels to a group from Cincinnati; Brown
immediately purchased Cherry's interest from the group, reportedly to keep the
team from moving to Cincinnati.[17] He put his wife and a 10-woman board of
directors in charge of the team.[18] Colonels general manager Mike Storen felt
that this was a sign that Brown was going to run the team "his way", and left the
team as a result; two months later, he accepted the job of ABA league
commissioner.[19] Head coach Joe Mullaney followed soon after, saying that
Brown was going to be too meddlesome in personnel decisions.[18] Babe
McCarthy lasted only one season as Mullaney's replacement; in 1975, Brown
hired Hubie Brown as head coach.[20] The team won the ABA championship
the following year.[21]
Hubie Brown coached the
Although he had been hailed as a hero, first for saving the Colonels from
Kentucky Colonels to the
moving to Cincinnati and then for bringing a championship to Louisville,
ABA championship in 1975.
Brown came under intense public criticism following the Colonels'
championship season for selling the rights to center Dan Issel to the Baltimore
Claws in a cost-saving move.[22] He frequently clashed with coach Hubie Brown during the 197576 season,
and at the end of the year, he accepted $3 million to fold the team during the 1976 ABANBA merger rather
than paying $3 million for the team to join the National Basketball Association (NBA).[23]
After folding the Colonels, Brown stated that basketball was not the kind of business he wanted to be involved
in.[24] Despite this declaration, he purchased half-ownership in the NBA's Buffalo Braves later in 1976.[25] The
Braves had posted a dismal 3052 record in the 197576 season, and Brown immediately set out to make
moves that would improve the franchise's fortunes in the next season.[26] He re-signed All Star guard Randy
Smith, who had threatened to leave as a free agent, then traded the club's first-round draft pick to the
Milwaukee Bucks for center Swen Nater.[26] In a single day, he made two significant trades. In the first, he
swapped reigning Rookie of the Year Adrian Dantley for the Indiana Pacers' Billy Knight, who was second in
the league in scoring the previous season.[26] Four hours later, he acquired Nate "Tiny" Archibald from the
New York Nets for George Johnson and a first-round draft pick in 1979.[26] In 1977, Brown purchased the
remaining share of the team from owner Paul Snyder.[25]

The following year, Brown traded franchises with Boston Celtics owner Irv Levin.[27] The move allowed Levin
to move his franchise to his home state of California, while giving Brown ownership of one of the league's
most storied franchises.[27] Two weeks before the swap of franchises was made official, details of a six-player
trade between the two were reported.[28] Boston sent Freeman Williams, Kevin Kunnert, and Kermit
Washington to the Braves for "Tiny" Archibald, Billy Knight, and Marvin Barnes.[28] The move turned Boston
fans against Brown, both because Kunnert and Washington were seen as key pieces of the team's future and
because team president and legendary former coach Red Auerbach publicly stated that he was not consulted
about the trade.[28] The relationship between Brown and Auerbach worsened with Brown's decision to trade
three first-round draft picks that Auerbach had planned to use to rebuild the franchise for Bob McAdoo.[7]
Again, Brown made the trade without consulting Auerbach.[29] Auerbach almost left Boston to take a job with
the New York Knicks as a result.[7] Brown eventually sold his interest in the team to co-owner Harry
Mangurian in 1979.[24][30]

Brown and his first wife divorced in 1977.[8] On March 17, 1979, he married former Miss America and CBS
sportscaster Phyllis George.[31] The ceremony was performed by Norman Vincent Peale.[2] Brown and George
had two children, Lincoln Tyler George Brown and Pamela Ashley Brown.[32]

Political career
Unlike his father, Brown showed only a passing interest in politics prior to 1979. In 1960, he was named vice-
chairman of John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign in Kentucky.[33] He was a member of the Young
Leadership Council of the Democratic National Committee, and was named honorary chairman of the National
Democratic Party in 1972.[11] Later that year, he considered running for the U.S. Senate, but decided against it
once former governor Louie B. Nunn entered the race.[13] From 1972 to 1974, he hosted the Democratic
National Telethon.[33] He founded the Governor's Economic Development Commission of Kentucky and
served as chair from 1975 to 1977.[11]

Gubernatorial election of 1979

On March 27, 1979, Brown interrupted his honeymoon with Phyllis George to announce his candidacy for
governor of Kentucky.[6][34] The announcement surprised most political observers because of his prior political
apathy and because Brown had spent considerable time out of the state with his business ventures and lavish
lifestyle.[6] Funding his campaign with his own personal fortune, Brown launched a massive media campaign
promoting his candidacy to help him overcome his late start in the race.[34] He promised to run the state
government like a business and to be a salesman for the state as governor.[6]
Other candidates in the Democratic field included sitting lieutenant governor Thelma Stovall, Terry McBrayer
(the choice of sitting governor Julian Carroll), congressman Carroll Hubbard, state auditor George Adkins, and
Louisville mayor Harvey Sloane.[35] Initially the leading candidate, Stovall was hampered during the campaign
by ill health.[35] During the campaign, Brown was attacked by McBrayer for refusing to release his federal tax
returns.[36] McBrayer also claimed that Brown had not voted in a Democratic primary since 1975, a charge
validated by public voting records.[36] Nevertheless, Brown won the primary by a margin of 25,000 votes.[6]
The race was so close that Sloane, Brown's closest competitor, refused to concede for two days.[6] Brown
defeated former Republican governor Louie B. Nunn in the 1979 general election by a vote of 554,083 to
376,809.[6]

Renovation of Governor's Mansion

Within a month of moving into the Governor's Mansion,

Brown noticed significant deterioration in the wiring and
ordered a full inspection.[37] The Department of Buildings
and Construction's preliminary report stated "If this was a
privately operated structure, this office would have no
alternative other than to give the operator 30 to 60 days to
rewire the structure."[38] The report went on to say that the The Kentucky Governor's Mansion underwent a
mansion was a virtual firetrap.[38] Upon receiving the significant renovation during Brown's term
report, Brown immediately moved his family out of the
mansion and back to Cave Hill, his estate in Lexington.[38]
The Department of Buildings and Construction forbade use of the mansion for overnight purposes or group
meetings until repairs could be made.[38] Brown's Cave Hill estate was officially designated the temporary
executive mansion, and the state agreed to furnish Brown's groceries, reimburse him for entertaining official
guests, and pay for telephone calls made in his capacity as governor.[39] He was also given a travel
allowance.[39]

In March 1980, the General Assembly created a committee to study whether it would be more feasible to
construct a new governor's mansion or repair the old one.[40] Ultimately, they decided to renovate the existing
mansion, and Brown's wife Phyllis was given liberal input into the decision making.[40] The state had expected
to cover the cost of the repairs using federal revenue sharing funds, but President Jimmy Carter ordered a halt
to the funds in May 1980.[40] First lady Phyllis Brown organized a group called "Save the Mansion" to raise
private funds to offset the repair costs.[40] Independently wealthy, Governor Brown donated his first year's
salary to the project.[41] (He waived the salary for the remainder of his term.)[41] The renovation and repairs
were completed in March 1983, and the Brown family returned to the mansion in April.[42]

Governorship

Because he owed few favors to the state's established politicians, many of Brown's top appointees were
businesspeople.[6] Keeping a campaign promise to appoint a woman and an African-American to his cabinet,
Brown named William E. McAnulty Jr., and Jacqueline Swigart to his cabinet.[43] McAnulty resigned his post
as secretary of the state's Department of Justice within one month, saying the position would keep him from
spending enough time with his family.[44] Brown re-appointed McAnulty to his former position as a judge with
the Jefferson County District Court and replaced him with another African-American, George W. Wilson.[44]
He also appointed Viola Davis Brown as Executive Director of the Office of Public Health Nursing in 1980,
she was the first African-American nurse to lead a state office of public health nursing in the U.S. His most
controversial appointment was Frank Metts, his secretary of transportation.[41] Metts broke with political
tradition in Kentucky, announcing that contracts would be awarded on the basis of competitive bids and
performance rather than political patronage.[41] Despite cutting personnel from the department, Metts doubled
the miles of road that were resurfaced.[41]

Difficult economic times marked Brown's term in office. During his tenure, the state's unemployment rate
climbed from 5.6 percent to 11.7 percent.[34] Brown stuck to his campaign promise not to raise taxes.[41] When
state income fell short of expectations, he reduced the state budget by 22 percent and cut the number of state
employees from 37,241 to 30,783, mostly through transfer and attrition.[1][41] At the same time, his merit pay
policies increased salaries for the remaining employees by an average of 34 percent.[41] He cut the executive
office staff from ninety-seven to thirty, and sold seven of the state's eight government airplanes.[41]

Brown appointed a group of insurance experts to study the state's policies and put them out for bid, ultimately
saving $2 million.[45] He also required competitive bids from banks where state funds were deposited; the extra
interest generated by this process generated an additional $50 million in revenue to the general fund.[46] He
opened communications and contacts with Japan, setting the stage for future economic relations between that
country and Kentucky.[46] Among his other accomplishments as governor were the implementation of
competitive bidding for government contracts and passage of a weight-distance tax on trucks.[34]

Brown was less involved with the legislative process than previous
governors.[6] For example, he did not attempt to influence the choice of
legislative leadership, while most previous governors had practically hand-
selected the presiding officers in each house.[6] During one of the two
legislative sessions of his term, he went on vacation.[34] Consequently, many of
his legislative recommendations were not enacted.[6] Among his failed
proposals were a multi-county banking law, a flat rate income tax, professional
negotiations for teachers, and a constitutional amendment to allow a governor to
be elected to successive terms.[6] In all, Brown was out of the state leaving
Lieutenant Governor Martha Layne Collins as acting governor for more than
five hundred days during his four-year term.[34] As noted by Kentucky historian
Lowell H. Harrison, Brown's hands-off approach allowed the legislature to gain
power relative to the governor for the first time in Kentucky history, a trend
Lt. Gov. Martha Layne which continued into the terms of his successors.[34]
Collins acted as governor for
more than 500 days of During his term, Brown served as co-chairman of the Appalachian Regional
Brown's term. Commission and chair of the Southern States' Energy Board.[1] In May 1981, he
was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of
Kentucky, and in May 1982, he was the recipient of the Father of the Year award.[11] In September 1983, the
national Democratic Party named him Democrat of the Year, and he was later made the party's lifetime
Honorary Treasurer.[1]

In 1982, Brown was briefly hospitalized for hypertension, and near the end of his term, he underwent quadruple
bypass surgery.[32] While recovering from the surgery, Brown suffered a rare pulmonary disease, keeping him
hospitalized for weeks, part of which he was comatose.[47] He had no pulse for a period of time, and one of his
lungs partially collapsed.[48] Brown's office tried to conceal the seriousness of his condition, drawing fire from
the press.[34] Following his recovery, he gave up smoking and took up jogging.[47]

In Kentucky's Governors, Brown biographer Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau said of his administration: "There were
no scandals. Neither he nor any of his people were accused of corruption."[47] Scandal did touch Brown
personally, however, as well as some of his close associates. In 1981, he was investigated for withdrawing $1.3
million of personal cash from the All American Bank of Miami.[49] The bank failed to report the transaction to
the Internal Revenue Service as required by law.[49] When the Federal Bureau of Investigation probed the
matter in 1983, Brown claimed he withdrew the money to cover gambling debts he ran up during "one bad
night gambling" in Las Vegas.[49] Brown, who was not the focus of the FBI's investigation, later recanted that
statement.[49]

Some of Brown's associates were also involved with a Lexington cocaine and gun-smuggling ring called "The
Company".[50] James P. Lambert, an associate of Brown's since they attended the University of Kentucky
together, was indicted on more than 60 drug charges.[51] Phone records also showed calls from the governor's
mansion to several individuals eventually convicted of drug charges in connection with the investigation.[52]

Later political car eer

On March 15, 1984, Brown filed as a candidate for the U.S. Senate seat held by Walter "Dee" Huddleston just
hours before the filing deadline.[47] Six weeks later, on April 27, he withdrew his candidacy, citing effects of
his serious illness and surgery from the previous year.[47]

In 1987, Brown again ran for governor, entering a crowded Democratic primary that included Lieutenant
Governor Steve Beshear, former governor Julian Carroll, Grady Stumbo, and political newcomer Wallace
Wilkinson.[53] He entered the race late filing his candidacy papers in late February before the primary
election in late May.[54] When Brown approached the state capitol to file his papers, Beshear met him outside
the filing office and challenged him to an impromptu debate, but Brown declined.[54] As Brown quickly
became the frontrunner, Beshear attacked his lavish lifestyle in a series of campaign ads, one of which was
based on the popular television show Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.[55] Other ads by Beshear played up
Brown's ties to James P. Lambert, while still others claimed that Brown would raise taxes.[55][56] Brown refuted
Beshear's claims in ads of his own, and the battle between Beshear and Brown opened an opportunity for
Wilkinson who distinguished himself from the field by advocating for a state lottery to make a late
surge.[53][56] He defeated Brown, his closest competitor, by a margin of 58,000 votes.[53]

Later life
Following his unsuccessful run for the governorship in 1987, Brown resumed his career in the restaurant
industry. He started the Chicken Grill restaurant in Louisville and helped his wife, Phyllis, launch Chicken By
George, a line of boneless, skinless chicken breast products designed for sale in supermarkets and preparation
at home.[57] In 1988, Hormel made Chicken By George one of its subsidiaries.[57] Brown expanded several
other restaurants including Miami Subs, Texas Roadhouse, and Roadhouse Grill.[47] None of these ventures
matched the success he experienced early in his career.[6]

In 1991, Brown formed a partnership with recording artist Kenny Rogers, co-founding and serving as CEO of
Kenny Rogers Roasters, an international chain of wood-roasted chicken restaurants.[14] The founding of Kenny
Rogers Roasters was part of a larger movement in the restaurant industry toward healthier, take-home
offerings.[58] Roasters immediately found itself in competition with Boston Chicken (later known as Boston
Market) and several smaller roasted chicken chains.[58] Kentucky Fried Chicken also introduced a roasted
chicken line of products called Rotisserie Gold to compete with Roasters and Boston Chicken.[58] In December
1992, Clucker's, a smaller player in the roasted chicken market, sued Kenny Rogers Roasters, claiming the
chain had copied its recipes and menus.[59] The lawsuit continued until Roasters purchased a majority stake in
Cluckers in August 1994.[59] Brown then took Roasters public and grew it to a chain of more than 1,000
restaurants before selling his interest in the franchise to the Malaysia-based Berjaya Group in 1996.[60]

Singer Kenny Rogers partnered with
Brown to launch Kenny Rogers
Roasters in 1991.
McCann, had been a victim. [63] In 2003, Patton renamed Kentucky Route 9 as the "John Y. Brown Jr. AA
Highway".[64] The "AA" designation comes from the fact that the highway originally connected the cities of
Alexandria and Ashland.[64]
Brown and his wife Phyllis separated in August 1995.[61] Phyllis filed
for divorce in Kentucky in 1996, but withdrew the petition amid
settlement talks with her husband.[61] After Brown reportedly cut off
much of his wife's financial support, she filed a second divorce petition
in 1997, this time in Broward County, Florida where her husband was
living at the time.[61] After a brief legal fight over whether the
proceedings should take place in Kentucky or Florida, the divorce
became final in 1998.[61][62] Later that year, he married former Mrs.
Kentucky Jill Louise Roach, 27 years his junior, but they divorced in
2003 for reasons not released. When asked why they divorced he stated
"I do have great love for Jill, but something which cannot be overlooked
has come up in our marriage. I will always love her and her children,
but it seems a divorce is our only option now."[62]
In 1997, Brown agreed to be co-chairman of Governor Paul E. Patton's
Council on Domestic Violence along with Patton's wife, Judi.[63] Brown
said he had always been interested in curbing domestic violence, but his
interest became personal after he discovered that his sister, Betty "Boo"

In late 2006, Brown partnered with actress Suzanne Somers to open a do-it-yourself meal preparation store
called Suzanne's Kitchen. The flagship store opened in Tates Creek Centre in Lexington, and a second store
was opened in New Jersey. Brown intended to build the business into a chain, but five months after the
Lexington location opened, both stores closed. Brown said he wanted to "revamp the whole format to get
something even more convenient" and promised to re-open both stores at some unspecified future date.[65]
Investor John Shannon Bouchillon sued Brown and Somers, claiming they had deceived him both before and
after his investment of $400,000.[66] The case against Brown was dropped before it went to trial, and a Fayette
County judge dismissed the suit against Somers for lack of evidence in 2011.[66]

Brown refused to serve on the inaugural committee of his old political foe, Steve Beshear, when Beshear was
elected governor in 2007. All of Kentucky's living former Democratic governors were invited to participate,
and each accepted the invitation with the exception of Brown. Of his refusal, Brown stated "I don't respect him.
I don't want to be part of it. I'm not really interested in being politically correct." Referring to the 1987
Democratic gubernatorial primary campaign, Brown continued, "He said things that were not true, like we had
raised taxes. I just never respected him after that."[67] When Beshear was reelected in 2011, Brown served as
inauguration co-chair with the other former governors.[68]

In 2008, Brown was named to the University of Kentucky College of Law Alumni Association's Hall of
Fame.[33] In a press release, the association cited Brown's success at Kentucky Fried Chicken, his political
career, and his help in establishing the university's SandersBrown Center on Aging as reasons for his
induction.[33] The center is named in honor of Harland Sanders and Brown's father.[33] Brown divides his time
between homes in Lexington, Kentucky and Fort Lauderdale, Florida.[47]

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Further reading
Brenner, Marie (1981-11-16). "John Y. and Phillis Kentucky-Fried Style". New York Magazine.
Retrieved 2010-01-06.
Rawls Jr., Wendell (1983-10-02). "Kentucky Governor Ponders Political Future". The New York Times.
Retrieved 2010-01-06.
West, Gary (2011). Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association: The Real Story of a Team
Left Behind. Acclaim Press. ISBN 1-935001-82-5.

Party political offices

Democratic nominee for Governor of
Preceded by Succeeded by
Kentucky
Julian Carroll Martha Collins
1979
Chair of the Democratic Governors
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Association
Jerry Brown Scott M. Matheson
19821983
Political offices
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Julian Carroll 19791983 Martha Collins

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