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About John Harper
John David Harper was a five-term member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from Bullitt County and the 1987 Republican nominee for governor of Kentucky. Harper agreed to run for governor after the expected choice of party leaders, Lexington attorney Larry Forgy, surprisingly dropped out of the race because of fundraising problems. Harper lost to Democrat Wallace G. Wilkinson in a record landslide. Wilkinson carried 115 of Kentucky's 120 counties and won 504,367 votes to Harper's 273,035. Of the five counties Harper carried, one was his home county of Bullitt, and another was Wilkinson's county of residence, Fayette.
Everything about John Harper →- Occupation
- engineer, politician
- Position held
- member of the Kentucky House of Representatives
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- May 3, 1930
- Died
- June 15, 2001