Lowell T. Hughes (1938 – September 8, 2019) was an American politician from

Kentucky Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the ...

who was a member of the

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from 1976 to 1983. Hughes was first elected in 1975, defeating incumbent Democratic senator Roy R. Ross for renomination. He resigned from the senate in February 1983 before moving to

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. He died in September 2019 at age 81.

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1938 births 2019 deaths Democratic Party Kentucky state senators 20th-century members of the Kentucky General Assembly {{Kentucky-politician-stub