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  Park, James "Jim"
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NameJames "Jim" Park
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, Kentucky , United States
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Born November 10, 1892
DiedDecember 17, 1970 (78 years)
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InfoJames Park was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the St. Louis Browns from 1915 to 1917. He also played football, basketball, and baseball at the University of Kentucky from 1911 to 1915, and coached basketball there in 1915-1916 and baseball in 1922. Park also served as the head football coach at Transylvania University from 1919 to 1921, and he was also a student–coach at Eastern Kentucky University in 1909.

After his playing and coaching days, Park enjoyed a long and successful career as a lawyer, a career that was interspersed with terms of public office and with service in various capacities in the Republican party. In 1944 he was the Republican candidate for the United States Senate against the incumbent Alben W. Barkley, and, although defeated, he reduced the Democratic majority in Kentucky from approximately 145,000 (in 1940) to about 80,000 in 1944.

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  11/07/1944 KY US Senate Lost 44.93% (-9.88%)
  08/05/1944 KY US Senate - R Primary Won 64.12% (+37.49%)
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