Notable Kentuckians buried at the Frankfort Cemetery:
Daniel Boone, Richard Mentor Johnson, John J. Crittenden, Simon Bolivar Buckner, J. C. W. Beckham, Augustus O. Stanley, Lawrence Wetherby, Edwin P. Morrow, Robert P. Letcher, Solomon P. Sharp, Miss Elizabeth, Charles S. Morehead, Simeon S. Willis, Charles Scott, George Madison, John Adair, Luke P. Blackburn, James Turner Morehead, Thomas Todd, Christopher Greenup, Presley O'bannon, Theodore O'hara, Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., John Brown, William T. Barry, George M. Bibb, John White, William Lindsay, Henry Clay, Jr., Paul Sawyier, Johnson N. Camden, Jr., South Trimble, Thomas F. Marshall, Samuel Mckee, Joel Tanner Hart, Thomas Y. Fitzpatrick, Thomas Scudder Page, Willard Rouse Jillson.
Excerpt: Augustus O. Stanley Augustus Owsley Stanley (May 21, 1867 August 12, 1958) was a politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky . A Democrat , he served as the 38th Governor of Kentucky and also represented the state in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate . From 1903 to 1915, Stanley represented Kentucky's 2nd congressional district in the House of Representatives, where he gained a reputation as a progressive reformer. Beginning in 1904, he called for an antitrust investigation of the American Tobacco Company , claiming they were a monopoly that drove down prices for the tobacco farmers of his district. As a result of his investigation, the Supreme Court of the United States broke up the American Tobacco Company in 1911. Stanley also chaired a committee that conducted an antitrust investigation of U.S. Steel , which brought him national acclaim. Many of his ideas were incorporated into the Clayton Antitrust Act . During an unsuccessful senatorial bid in 1914, Stanley assumed an anti-prohibition stance.
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