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Kentucky Colonels have been in, part-of, and making news in the United States for over 250 years, naturally pre-dating the founding of the Commonwealth of Kentucky which they were responsible for creating.Β
Kentucky Colonels in the News
Kentucky Colonels in the News
Important use of the title of Kentucky Colonel has decreased significantly. However throughout the 20th Century the Kentucky colonel was very popular and received headlines and lots of news articles. We know this because we have reviewed thousands of the articles about "colonels" especially in small town newspapers. See our news archive.Β
Whether you get a news article or not often depends on the person making your nomination and the person receiving the award, sometimes it is also helpful to be presented the the commission from the Governor himself in an official ceremony, the odds for this however are 1000 to 1.
Also now that assigning colonelcy to individuals is more commonplace you need to be creative or perhaps combine receiving a commission with the reason it was awarded or with another deed or action. Every new Kentucky colonel deserves to be mentioned in the news especially for what they did to become a colonel in the first place.
By 1931 when Governor Flem Sampson made 677 including an infant, this unsettled news journalists and other colonels.
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Some of our most important and defining news articles, laws, the US Congressional Record and the controversy regarding the Kentucky Colonelcy is linked canonically in our menu to this page. Other important newspaper articles that can be cited about the Kentucky Colonel is located on our page: Kentucky Colonel from US Newspapers.Β
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