Floyd Clark "Rip" Wheeler (March 2, 1898, in

Marion, Kentucky Marion is a home rule-class city in Crittenden County, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the seat of its county. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 3,039. The farm communities surrounding Marion are home to a large Amish popula ...

– September 18, 1968) was an American

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from 1921 to 1924 for the

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and

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