Senator Robert Humpreys
(1893-1977)

A Senator from Kentucky; born in Fulgham, Hickman Co., Kentucky., August 20, 1893; educated in public schools and graduated from Marvin College, Clinton, Ky., in 1914; attended the University of Wisconsin; during the First World War served overseas and was discharged as a first sergeant 1917-1919; registered pharmacist in the retail drug business in Mayfield, Ky., and later at Frankfort, Ky.; member, Kentucky house of representatives 1920; member, Kentucky senate 1932-1936; president pro tempore of State senate in 1934 and and clerk of three senate sessions 1936-1942; Kentucky highway commissioner 1936-1940; served as a captain in the Medical Corps during the Second World War 1943-1945; State highway commissioner 1955-1956, when he resigned to accept appointment June 21, 1956, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alben W. Barkley; served from June 21, 1956, to November 6, 1956; was not a candidate for election to the vacancy; resumed retail drug business; resided in Frankfort, Ky., where he died December 31, 1977; interment in Highland Park Cemetery, Mayfield, Ky. He was the son of John H. Humphreys and Rose L. Henry. She was the daughter of Joseph G. Henry and Mary Ellen Handley my g-g-grandparents