William A. Stanfill

William Abner Stanfill


United States Senator from Kentucky
In office November 19, 1945 – November 5, 1946
Preceded by	Happy Chandler
Succeeded by	John S. Cooper
Personal details
Born	(1892-01-16)January 16, 1892 Barbourville, Kentucky
Died	June 12, 1971(1971-06-12) (aged 79) Lexington, Kentucky
Political party	Republican

William Abner Stanfill (January 16, 1892 – June 12, 1971) was briefly a member of the United States Senate from Kentucky.

Stanfill attended Union College and received a law degree from the University of Kentucky in 1912. He practiced law in Barbourville, Kentucky and Hazard, Kentucky. He served on the board of regents of Morehead State Teachers College (now Morehead State University) 1927 – 1931.

United States Senator Happy Chandler, a Democrat, resigned his Senate seat to become Commissioner of Baseball on November 1, 1945. Republican Governor of Kentucky Simeon S. Willis appointed Stanfill, a Republican, to the vacant Senate seat on November 19, 1945. Stanfill did not run for election to the seat. He served from November 19, 1945, to November 5, 1946 when his successor, John Sherman Cooper who had won the seat by election, assumed the Senate seat. Stanfill then resumed the practice of law and later retired to Lexington, Kentucky.

External links

United States Congress. "William A. Stanfill (id: S000792)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

William A. Stanfill at Find a Grave

United States Senate
Preceded by Happy Chandler	United States Senator (Class 2) from Kentucky November 19, 1945 – November 5, 1946	Succeeded by John Sherman Cooper

United States Senators from Kentucky

Class 2	Brown Thruston Clay Bibb Walker Barry Hardin Crittenden Johnson Bibb Crittenden Morehead J. Underwood Thompson Powell Guthrie McCreery Stevenson Beck Carlisle Lindsay Blackburn Paynter James Martin Stanley Sackett Robsion Williamson M. Logan Chandler Stanfill Cooper Chapman T. Underwood Cooper Barkley Humphreys Cooper Huddleston McConnell

Class 3	Edwards Marshall J. Breckinridge Adair Clay Pope Bledsoe Talbot W. Logan Talbot Rowan Clay Crittenden Metcalfe Clay Meriwether Dixon Crittenden J. C. Breckinridge Davis Machen McCreery Williams Blackburn Deboe McCreary Bradley Camden Beckham Ernst Barkley Withers Clements Morton Cook Ford Bunning Paul

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