John Y. Brown Jr., a onetime owner of Kentucky Fried Chicken who parlayed his fast-food fortune into a dramatic rise in Kentucky politics, died Nov. 21. He had complications from covid-19, said his daughter Pamela Brown, an anchor at CNN.
Kentucky governors at the time were barred by state law from seeking a second consecutive term, and Mr. Brown indicated interest in possibly pursuing the Democratic nomination for president in 1984. But he faced controversy over a federal investigation into his withdrawal of $1.3 million in cash from a Miami bank that did not make a mandatory report of the transactions to the IRS. Mr.
Mr. Brown received a bachelor’s degree in 1957 and a law degree in 1960, both from the University of Kentucky. He displayed an entrepreneurial streak as a college student, making as much as $500 a weekend selling copies of the Encyclopaedia Britannica door to door. His prolific political fundraising helped bring him to the attention of the state and national Democratic parties. He unsuccessfully challenged U.S. Sen. Walter D. Huddleston in the 1978 Democratic primary before his successful bid for governor the following year. He sold his share of the Celtics in 1979.Mr. Brown’s first marriage, to Ellie Durall, ended in divorce.
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