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A lesson in political conscience from my Kentucky great-great grandfather: Elizabeth Overstreet Field

A lesson in political conscience from my Kentucky great-great grandfather: Elizabeth Overstreet Field Updated Feb 12, 2021; Posted Feb 12, 2021 Ella Clark Overstreet, third from left, in an undated photo in front of the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Kentucky. Ella Overstreet, the author s great-great-grandmother, was wife of Henry Griffith Overstreet, who served three terms in the Kentucky legislature despite switching parties, from Republican to Democratic, to protest the conviction of Republicans in the 1900 assassination of a newly named Democratic governor of Kentucky, William Goebel. Elizabeth Overstreet Field, great-great-granddaughter of Henry and Ella Overstreet, sees a lesson in this act of moral conscience for today s Republican officeholders.

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