Martha Layne Collins

Martha Layne Collins

politician

BIRTHDAY December 7, 1936
BIRTH SIGN Sagittarius
BIRTHPLACE Bagdad, KY
AGE 88 years old
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ABOUT MARTHA LAYNE COLLINS

Politician and Democrat who was the first female governor of Kentucky, an office she held from 1983 to 1987.

She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Home Economics from the University of Lexington in 1959.

She successfully brought a Toyota manufacturing plant to Kentucky.

He husband , Dr. Bill Collins, was convicted of influence-peddling scandal in 1993.

She was considered as a possible running mate for Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale in the 1984 presidential election.