Harry Lee Waterfield

Harry Lee Waterfield ( born 1911 in Calloway County, Kentucky, † 1988) was an American Democratic politician from the state of Kentucky.

Waterfield was from 1938 to 1947 and from 1950 to 1951 a member of the House of Representatives from Kentucky. During that time he was Speaker from 1944 to 1946, which corresponds to the Chairman of the House of Representatives. Waterfield was twice deputy governor of Kentucky from 1955 to 1959 under Governor Albert Chandler and 1963-1967 under Edward Breathitt. Three attempts, even to become governor, already failed in the primaries of the Democratic Party. In 1947 he finished in second place behind Earle Clements, 1959, he was also second behind Bert Combs. In his last attempt in 1971, it was enough only for third place.

Happy Chandler Edward T. Breathitt Governor (United States) Bert T. Combs Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky Alexander Scott Bullitt John Caldwell (Kentucky politician) Thomas Posey Gabriel Slaughter Richard Hickman William T. Barry Robert B. McAfee John Breathitt Charles A. Wickliffe Manlius Valerius Thomson John Burton Thompson James Greene Hardy Linn Boyd Richard Taylor Jacob John W. Stevenson John G. Carlisle John C. Underwood James E. Cantrill James R. Hindman James William Bryan Mitchell Cary Alford William Jackson Worthington John Marshall (Kentucky) J. C. W. Beckham William P. Thorne William Hopkinson Cox Edward J. McDermott S. Thruston Ballard Henry Denhardt James Breathitt, Jr. Keen Johnson Rodes K. Myers Kenneth H. Tuggle Emerson Beauchamp Wilson W. Wyatt Julian Carroll Brereton Jones Paul E. Patton Steve Henry Steve Pence Daniel Mongiardo Jerry Abramson

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