Rodes Kirby Myers

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Rodes Kirby Myers

Birth
Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky, USA
Death
11 Mar 1960 (aged 59)
Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
Burial
Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map
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Rodes Kirby Myers was an active KY Democrat and served as the 38th Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky 1939-1943. He was a KY delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948 and 1956. He died at Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, TN. of cancer.

1st wife: Beulah Gardner Myers (1903 - 1956)
2nd wife: Helen Neill Mohead Myers (1920 - 1998)

Education:
He attended Ogden College from 1916-1919 and taught there in 1920 and at Morganfield High School in 1921. Myers went on to study law at the University of Cincinnati and the University of Kentucky where he obtained his LLB in 1925. Rodes Myers followed his father into politics and served in many capacities.
Rodes Kirby Myers was an active KY Democrat and served as the 38th Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky 1939-1943. He was a KY delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948 and 1956. He died at Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, TN. of cancer.

1st wife: Beulah Gardner Myers (1903 - 1956)
2nd wife: Helen Neill Mohead Myers (1920 - 1998)

Education:
He attended Ogden College from 1916-1919 and taught there in 1920 and at Morganfield High School in 1921. Myers went on to study law at the University of Cincinnati and the University of Kentucky where he obtained his LLB in 1925. Rodes Myers followed his father into politics and served in many capacities.