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Wallace Glenn Wilkinson (December 12, 1941–July 5, 2002) was a Kentucky businessman who made a fortune with college bookstores, and Governor of Kentucky, 1987-1991.
<p>Born in Casey County, Kentucky, Wilkinson graduated from Liberty High School in 1959. He transferred from Campbellsville College to the University of Kentucky and began dating fellow student Martha Carol Stafford, whom he had known in high school. They were married in 1960 and both left college to open The Kentucky Paperback Gallery in Lexington, Kentucky, which evolved into Wallace's Bookstore and Wallace's Book Company, a used texbook management company. Wallace and Martha had two children: Wallace Glenn Wilkinson, Jr. and Andrew Wilkinson.
<p>Wallace Wilkinson entered the 1987 Democratic primary for governor of Kentucky as an unknown running against a field that included two previous Kentucky governors, John Y. Brown, Jr. and Julian Carroll, the incumbent Lieutenant Governor, Steve Beshear and Grady Stumbo,...
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