Ken Upchurch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Ken Upchurch

American politician and newspaper publisher

Date of Birth: 04-Jun-1969

Place of Birth: Richmond, Kentucky, United States

Profession: politician, publisher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Ken Upchurch

  • Kenneth "Ken" Upchurch (born June 4, 1969) is the publisher of the Monticello Stage, a community newspaper in Monticello in Wayne County, Kentucky, who is a Republican member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from District 52, which encompasses Wayne, McCreary, and a portion of Pulaski counties in the south-central portion of the state.
  • Upchurch held this seat from January 1999 to December 2010 and then returned after a two-year hiatus to the position early in 2013.Upchurch is a son of Martin L.
  • Upchurch of Monticello and the former Barbara Jackson (1948–2013).
  • He and his wife, Melissa, have a daughter, Chelsea Upchurch.
  • He has two brothers, Keith Upchurch of Monticello and Timothy Upchurch of Lexington, Kentucky.
  • His maternal grandfather is the Reverend James Howard Jackson of Mt.
  • Orab, Ohio.
  • Upchurch received a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Eastern Kentucky University in his native Richmond, Kentucky.
  • At EKU, he was the student body president and an automatic member of the university board of regents.
  • He is a member of the Elk Spring Valley Baptist Church in Monticello.In his first race for the House, buoyed by a large vote in Wayne County, Upchurch won the Republican nomination over three opponents by a margin of some seven hundred votes.
  • In the general election, he defeated Democrat Arthur J.
  • Bolze of Somerset by a wide margin, 8,505 (75.7 percent) to 2,736 (24.3 percent) As a legislator, Upchurch developed a reputation for his support of small business and agriculture.
  • In 2002, his colleagues elected him as the House Republican whip, a position which he filled for two terms and helped to craft the state budget.
  • He did not seek a seventh two-year term in 2010 and was succeeded by fellow Republican, Sara Beth Gregory, a lawyer from Monticello.
  • Instead Upchurch was defeated in a bid for Wayne County Judge-Executive.
  • After just two years in the state House, Gregory won a special election to the Kentucky State Senate in December 2012 to succeed long-term State Senate President David L.
  • Williams of Burkesville in Cumberland County.
  • Upchurch won back the seat that he had vacated barely two years earlier, when he defeated Democrat Harvey Shearer, also of Monticello in a low-turnout special election held on February 12, 2013.
  • The leadership of both parties selected Upchurch and Shearer as their nominees.

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