Bob Gable
Robert Elledy Gable is an American businessman from Frankfort, who was the Kentucky Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1975. Gable lost to the incumbent Democrat Governor Julian Carroll. Carroll received 470,159 votes to Gable's 277,998.
In 1995, Gable again sought the governor's office but lost by a large margin in the Republican primary. With Shirley W. Palmer-Ball, his 1975 running mate reprising that role, Gable lost the primary with 17,054 votes to Larry Forgy and Tom Handy's 97,099 votes. Forgy, as the Republican nominee, was then defeated in the general election by the popular Democrat choice, Paul E. Patton.
Gable formerly resided in Stearns in McCreary County in south Kentucky. Gable is the great-grandson of Justus S. Stearns, founder and owner of Stearns Coal & Lumber Company. He, along with his wife, Emily T. Gable, and family, moved in 1968 to serve as Parks Commissioner in the administration of Governor Louie Nunn. He was a chairman of the Kentucky Republican Party.
In 2008, Gable was an at-large elector for the McCain/Palin ticket, which won a majority in Kentucky.
