Richard Dwight Farmer is an American former collegiate basketball player and Republican Party politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He served as the Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner from 2004 to 2012 and was the running mate of David L. Williams in the 2011 gubernatorial election. After leaving office, Farmer was investigated for violating state campaign finance laws and misappropriating state resources. He was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison along with a concurrent 12 months in state prison.
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Richard Dwight Farmer is an American former collegiate basketball player and Republican Party politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He served as the Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner from 2004 to 2012 and was the running mate of David L. Williams in the 2011 gubernatorial election. After leaving office, Farmer was investigated for violating state campaign finance laws and misappropriating state resources and was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison along with a concurrent 12 months in state prison. He was released from a halfway house on January 21, 2016 and is currently residing in Clay County. Farmer was born on August 25, 1969, in Corbin, Kentucky, but grew up in the eastern Kentucky town of Manchester. He credits his father, a transportation manager at a local coal mine, with developing his basketball acumen. As an eighth grader, Farmer played for his junior varsity and varsity teams at Clay County High School. He eventually stopped playing football, but continued to play basketball – as a pitcher and first baseman – until his senior year of high school. He played sparingly during his high school basketball season but received 68 seconds of playing time during the regular season – 2 points – during the 1984 Kentucky High School Athletic Association State Basketball Championship. In 1988, he was named Kentucky Mr. Basketball and Kentucky Associated Press Male High School Athlete of the Year after setting a championship game record with 51 points in a losing effort. Farmer played point guard for the Kentucky Wildcats, but Coach Eddie Sutton was reluctant to offer Farmer a scholarship.
After Farmer announced that he would visit other colleges and issued a deadline past which he would no longer consider Kentucky without a scholarship offer, Sutton relented and Farmer joined the University of Kentucky in 1991. The team’s seniors – Farmer, Woods, John Pelphrey, and Deron Feldhaus – were dubbed “The Unforgettables” and their jerseys were hung from the rafters of Rupp Arena following the 1991–92 season. Farmer parlayed his status as a basketball icon into two terms as agriculture commissioner, winning both elections by large margins. In 2011, Farmer – considered a rising star in the state Republican Party – was tapped as his running mate in the gubernatorial election and was defeated by Democratic Governor Steve Beshear and hisRunning mate Jerry Abramson. Farmer initially contested the charges, but later agreed to a plea bargain. On January 14, 2014, Farmer was ordered to pay USD 120,500 in restitution and USD 65,000 in fines. Farmer served almost 20 months in a satellite camp of the United States Penitentiary, Hazelton near Bruceton Mills, West Virginia, before transitioning to a halfway home on December 18, 2015. He also played on a county championship football team that won the county championship that year that year. He is also a left-hander’s vertical leap measured 40 inches in 1963, with a height of 5 ft 11 in (1 meter) in high school, and a point guard with a vertical leap of 40 inches.
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