Henry H. Denhardt was a Democratic

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 American

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 politician

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, who served as the Lieutenant Governor

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 of Kentucky

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 from 1923 to 1927, under Governor William J. Fields

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Denhardt was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky

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. In November, 1936 he was charged with the murder of his girlfriend and tried in LaGrange, Kentucky. The trial ended with a hung jury

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. Before he could be tried a second time, he was shot to death, at the Armstrong Hotel, Shelbyville

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, Shelby County, Kentucky

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, September 20, 1937.

Sources

• The Political Graveyard