S. Thruston Ballard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American politician
Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1855
Place of Birth: Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Date of Death: 18-Jan-1926
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About S. Thruston Ballard
- Samuel Thruston Ballard (February 11, 1855 – January 18, 1926) was an American politician, philanthropist, and miller, who served as the 33rd Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky from 1919 to 1923, under Governor Edwin P.
- Morrow. Samuel Thruston Ballard was the son of Andrew Jackson Ballard and Fannie Thruston Ballard.
- Ballard was educated in public schools of Louisville and worked to expand his education at Huntoon's private academy.
- Cornell became his alma mater and graduated there with a degree of Bachelor of Science in 1878 at the age of 23. For the next four years Ballard would work for Chess, Carley & Company. In 1880, with his brother R.
- C.
- Ballard Thruston, Ballard was president of the Ballard & Ballard Flour Company.
- A James Jones helped to start the firm.
- The first mill was built in the back yard of the Ballard estate on Walnut Street.
- On January 25, Ballard was married to Sunshine Harris (1861-1938), the daughter of Theodore Harris of Louisville Kentucky.
- In 1884 faced a debt crisis due to hard times in the land.
- In 1889, Ballard & Ballard Co.
- was one of the first employers to introduce the profit sharing plan.
- Ballard attended the 1904 World's Fair in St.
- Louis, Missouri.
- While they're Ballard purchased and donated the Egyptian mummy Tchaenhotep, for the Louisville Free Public Library Museum.
- In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Mr.
- Ballard a member of the Commission on Industrial Relations.
- Samuel and Sunshine had one daughter and three grandchildren.
- Thruston Ballard Morton, Janes Lewis Morton and Rogers Clark Ballard Morton. In 1925, Ballard became ill at his winter home at Eau Gallie Fla.
- On January 18, 1926 after being bedridden for weeks, Samuel died in his home at Glenview at the age of 71.
- The disease that took his life was cancerous in nature.
- He was interred at Cave Hill Cemetery.
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