Famous people born in Lexington
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James M Comly
James Munroe Stuart Comly was a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, as well as a journalist, attorney, newspaper editor and owner, historian and diplomat. He was instrumental in advancing the political career of his friend Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th President of the United States.....
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James M Sellers
Colonel James McBrayer Sellers was a highly decorated Marine in World War I, and served as Commandant, Superintendent and President of Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri from 1920 to 1990.....
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B B Warfield
Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield was professor of theology at Princeton Seminary from 1887 to 1921. Some conservative Presbyterians consider him to be the last of the great Princeton theologians before the split in 1929 that formed Westminster Theological Seminary and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.....
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Harold Hamm
Harold Glenn Hamm is an American entrepreneur primarily involved in the oil and gas business who is best known for pioneering the development of the large shale oil resources of the Bakken formation. On January 16, 2015 Hamm was ranked by Forbes magazine as the 48th richest person in United States and 132nd richest person in the world, with a net worth estimated at 9.3 billion, which decreased from 18.7 billion in September 2014. In 2012, presidential candidate Mitt Romney named Hamm as his ene....
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Mary Barr Clay
Mary Barr Clay was a leader of the American womens suffrage movement. She also was known as Mary B. Clay and Mrs. J. Frank Herrick.....
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Lilburn Boggs
Lilburn Williams Boggs was the sixth Governor of Missouri from 1836 to 1840. He is now most widely remembered for his interactions with Joseph Smith and Porter Rockwell, and Missouri Executive Order 44, known by Mormons as the Extermination Order, issued in response to the ongoing conflict between members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and other settlers of Missouri. Boggs was also a key player in the Honey War of 1837.....
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Jack Givens
Jack Goose Givens is a retired American collegiate and professional basketball player. Givens led the University of Kentucky to the 1978 NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championship and was named that years Final Four Most Outstanding Player due in most part to his 41point performance in Kentuckys 9488 victory over Duke University in the championship game. He was a 65 , 205160lb forward.....
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Ethelbert Dudley Warfield
Ethelbert Dudley Warfield, D.D., LL.D. was an American professor of history and college president who served as president of Miami University, Lafayette College and Wilson College. As Miami Universitys youngest president, he was noted for bringing football to Miami where its first intercollegiate game was played against the University of Cincinnati in 1888.....
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