Interview with Clay Crupper, July 12, 2006
Project: Kentucky Legislature Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Crupper (House 1974-1992, 61st district; Democrat) discusses growing up in rural Owen County, his farming background, dairy business, education, and family history. He covers his entry into politics, campaign approach, committees he served on, and legislation on the helmet law, collective bargaining for teachers, merit pay for state employees, education reform, tobacco farming, and horse racing. Highlights include his impressions of several governors, being the border district between the Northern Kentucky and Central Kentucky caucuses, and his political philosophy.Interview Accession
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Agriculture Committee (Chair) Business Organizations and Professions Committee campaigning Central Kentucky caucus Constituency concerns education reform Flynn's Restaurant and Statesman Lounge helmet law legislative independence Northern Kentucky caucus political philosophy redistricting rural life Sunday racing Toyota Manufacturing (Georgetown, Ky.) Turfway ParkInterview LC Subject
Agriculture--Kentucky Agriculture Apportionment (Election law) Baptists Bracken County (Ky.) Brown, John Young, Jr., 1933-2022 Carroll County (Ky.) Carroll, Julian Morton, 1931-2023 Clay, Crupper Clay, Crupper--Interviews Collective bargaining Collins, Martha Layne, 1936- Dry Ridge (Ky.) Economic development Educational change Educational change--Kentucky Ford, Wendell H., 1924-2015 Gallatin County (Ky.) Grant County (Ky.) Harris, Thomas O. Horse industry--Law and legislation--Kentucky Horse industry Kentucky. Education Reform Act (1990) Kentucky. Governor (1971-1974 : Ford) Kentucky. Governor (1974-1979 : Carroll) Kentucky. Governor (1979-1983 : Brown) Kentucky. Governor (1983-1987 : Collins) Legislators--Kentucky--Interviews Lobbyists Lobbyists-- Kentucky Merit pay--Kentucky Migrant workers Owen County (Ky.) Pendleton County (Ky.) Philosophy--Political aspects Political campaigns--Kentucky Radio Rural conditions Scott County (Ky.) Simulcasting of horse racing Tobacco industry--Kentucky World War, 1939-1945Interview Rights
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Crupper, Clay Interview by Christy Bohl. 12 Jul. 2006. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Crupper, C. (2006, July 12). Interview by C. Bohl. Kentucky Legislature Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Crupper, Clay, interview by Christy Bohl. July 12, 2006, Kentucky Legislature Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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