Steve Henry

Quick Facts

Full Name	Steve Henry
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Oct 8, 1953(1953-10-08)
Age	71
Country	United States
Birth City	Daviess County
Horoscope	Libra

Steve Henry Biography

Steve Henry is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on October 8, 1953 in Daviess County, United States. Henry was born on the 8th of October 1953 at Daviess County, Kentucky and graduated from Owensboro Senior High School in 1972, and was a player on the Red Devils’ Kentucky Boys Basketball State Championship squad that was coached by Sweet Sixteen Tournament MVP, Jerry Thruston. He was a student at Western Kentucky University and was elected the Student Body President during his second run- off, having lost an election that was close the previous one against Jeff Costello. As the President of the Student Government Association and as an Kentucky residence, Henry also served as an elected member of the WKU Board of Regents. Henry was part of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, that also included as members at that time, the future Western Kentucky University President Gary Ransdell and the future Kentucky Supreme Court Chief Justice John D. Minton, Jr. Henry attended the University of Louisville School of Medicine and later became an orthopedist in Louisville, Kentucky. In Louisville Henry got elected to be a member of the Jefferson County, Kentucky Fiscal Court as a Democrat County Commissioner.

There was a lot of speculation about whether Patton might remove Henry from his ticket and Patton thought about dropping Henry however they ran for office again and were elected with 352,099 votes. 60.6 percent of the total in a low- turnout beating the Republican ticket that included Peppy Martin as well as Wanda Cornelius.

In 2002 and 2003 it emerged that the United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky was investigating Henry for fraudulent Medicare and Medicaid billings while he taught at the University of Louisville Medical School from 1996 through 2001. Then U.S. Attorney Steve Pence (R) had previously stated that he would not seek an indictment in regards to a criminal case.

In 2002 Henry advocated legislation that would mandate healthier lunch options for Kentucky school children and limit junk food in public schools.

The year 1998 was the last time Henry took on the United States Senate seat being vacant from Wendell H. Ford. Henry was third on the ballot in the Democratic primary, with 156,576 votes (27.6 percent) and 166,472 votes (29.3 percent) to former Federal prosecutor Charlie Owen and 194,125 votes (34.2 percent) for the eventual candidate congressman Scotty Baesler. Baesler narrowly defeated in the general election by Republican Jim Bunning.

Steve Henry Net Worth

Steve Henry is one of the richest Politician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Steve Henry 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Steve Henry (born October 8 1953) is an American politician and orthopedic surgeon who served as the Lieutenant Governor for 52nd Kentucky from 1995 until 2003. He unsuccessfully ran in two the statewide elections, placing third in the Democratic primary contests to the United States Senate in 1998 and as Governor of Kentucky in 2007.

in 1995 Paul E. Patton as the then Vice Governor in Kentucky chose Henry to be his running partner in Patton’s governor’s race. Because of a 1992 modification to the Kentucky Constitution 1995 became the very first time that governor and lieutenant governor ran in a slate of candidates in Kentucky. Patton and Henry were the winners by a margin of 500,605 voters (50.9%)) in comparison to 479,227 (48.7 percent) to the Republican candidates, Larry Forgy and Tom Handy. In the campaign of 1995 because of complaints that Henry was charged for phone calls related to his campaign, which were from his office in the county, Henry repaid the county for the calls.

While serving as lieutenant governor, Henry married 2000 Miss America Heather French Henry. The wedding led to controversy over state resources being expended as part of the wedding and planning (see below).

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Henry ran as a candidate in the Democratic Primary for the 2007 election for Governor of Kentucky. He raised almost $1.5 million for the campaign, but approximately $700,000 of that was a loan (which was never repaid) from Henry to his own campaign. Early polls showed him at or near the head of the pack in the Democratic primary due to name recognition. However, Henry finished third in the primary with just over 60,000 votes (17%), behind Bruce Lunsford’s 21% and winner Steve Beshear’s 41% (over 142,000 votes) On election night Henry conceded and pledged his support to Beshear for the general election.

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Steve Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Steve Henry celebrates birthday on October 8 of every year.

On March 16, 2007, Leslie Holland, a former employee of Henry, filed a complaint with the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance stating that Henry broke state laws when he used a federal campaign account to spend money on his race for the state office of governor and used illegal corporate contributions for that purpose. This came shortly after the Office of the United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky acknowledged having received information pertaining to violations of federal campaign finance laws by Henry and his campaign entities.