Ruby Laffoon
Ruby Laffoon was the 43rd Governor of Kentucky from 1931 to 1935. Dubbed \”the terrible Turk from Madisonville,\” he advocated the enactment of the state’s first sales tax. He appointed a record number of Kentucky colonels, including Harland Sanders, who used the title Colonel when he opened his chain of Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants. He died of a stroke in...