Mae Hoover (January 28, 1938 – June 6, 2008) 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

Kentucky House of Representatives The Kentucky House of Representatives is the lower house of the Kentucky General Assembly. It is composed of 100 Representatives elected from single-member districts throughout the Commonwealth. Not more than two counties can be joined to form a ...

from 1987 to 1989. Hoover was elected to the house in a January 1987 special election following the death of her husband Welby Hoover, who had been elected to the seat the previous November. She did not seek reelection to a full term in 1988. Hoover died in June 2008 at age 70. She was the mother of Jeff Hoover, who also served as a member of the house and was briefly its speaker.

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1938 births 2008 deaths 20th-century members of the Kentucky General Assembly Republican Party members of the Kentucky House of Representatives Women state legislators in Kentucky {{Kentucky-politician-stub