Thomas Dale "Tom" Emberton, Sr. (born ca. 1934), is a retired Kentucky

Kentucky

The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...

 politician

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 and judge

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. He was the Republican

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 nominee for Governor of Kentucky

Governor of Kentucky

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, U.S.

United States

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 in 1971. He lost to the Democratic

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 Lieutenant Governor

Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky

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, Wendell H. Ford

Wendell H. Ford

Wendell Hampton Ford is a retired politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He served for twenty-four years in the U.S. Senate and was the 53rd Governor of Kentucky. He was the first person to be successively elected lieutenant governor, governor, and U.S. senator in Kentucky history...

. Ford polled 470,720 votes (50.6 percent) to Emberton's 412,653 (44.3 percent).

Prior to his candidacy, Emberton had served as a member of the Public Service Commission in Governor Louie B. Nunn

Louie B. Nunn

Louie Broady Nunn was the 52nd governor of Kentucky. Elected in 1967, he was the first Republican elected to that office since Simeon Willis in 1943 and the last to hold it until the election of Ernie Fletcher in 2003....

's administration.

In 1980, Emberton ran for Congress in Kentucky's 5th District, but lost the primary to the eventual winner, Hal Rogers

Hal Rogers

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 of Somerset

Somerset, Kentucky

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.

In 1987, Democratic Governor Wallace Wilkinson appointed Emberton to fill a vacancy on the Kentucky Court of Appeals

Kentucky Court of Appeals

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. He held that position until his retirement in 2004. Emberton resides in Edmonton

Edmonton, Kentucky

Edmonton is a city in, and the county seat of, Metcalfe County, Kentucky, United States. The area was first surveyed by Revolutionary War veteran and Virginian Edmund P. Rogers in 1800. The city was established by the Kentucky legislature as a trading post in 1836 and was named the county seat in...

, the seat of Metcalfe County

Metcalfe County, Kentucky

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 in southern Kentucky.

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