Wilson W. Wyatt (Napoleon's World)

Wilson Watkins Wyatt (November 21, 1905 - June 11, 1996) was an American Democratic politician from the state of Kentucky who served as a United States Senator from 1963-1981 and as Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky from 1960 until his resignation to serve as Senator. He notably served as Lieutenant Governor under James Robsion, a Nationalist, with whom he had a professionally productive but personally strained relationship. Wyatt defeated Thurston B. Morton in 1962 as part of that year's Democratic wave; however, he would lose three terms later to George Simpson in the 1980 landslide defeat for the Democratic Party. He defeated former Governor Louie Nunn in 1968 and Jefferson County Judge-Executive Marlow Cook in 1974.