John Y. Brown Jr., Kentucky’s Democratic governor from 1979 until 1983 and a prolific investor in fast food chains, died at age 88. He is known for catapulting the Kentucky Fried Chicken chain ...

on Dec. 11, 1979. Brown Jr., who became Kentucky’s governor after building empires in business and sports, has died, his family said in a release Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. He was 88. (AP Photo ...

(LEX 18) — Former Kentucky governor John Y. Brown Jr. is being remembered by Kentuckians across the country on Tuesday. Brown will lie in state until 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 29, at the ...

Brown served as governor of Kentucky from 1979 to 1983 following a career as a businessman. He narrowly won a crowded Democratic primary and more comfortably defeated a former Republican governor ...

By The Associated Press John Y. Brown Jr., who became Kentucky’s governor after building empires in business and sports, has died. He was 88. Brown’s family said in a release Tuesday that ...

John Y. Brown Jr., the former Democratic governor of Kentucky, has died at age 88. Brown will perhaps be remembered best as a restaurant magnate who built Kentucky Fried Chicken into a global fast ...