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Jimmy Higdon (James Cecil Higdon Jr.) was born on 15 July, 1953 in Taylor County, Kentucky, U.S., is an American politician. Discover Jimmy Higdon's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

Popular As James Cecil Higdon Jr.
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Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 15 July 1953
Birthday 15 July
Birthplace Taylor County, Kentucky, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1953

James Cecil Higdon II (born July 15, 1953), known as Jimmy Higdon, is an American businessman from Lebanon, Kentucky, who has been a Republican member of the Kentucky State Senate since 2009.

1971

The oldest of seven children of James Cecil and Alice Higdon, Jimmy Higdon was reared in Lebanon, Kentucky, where he graduated in 1971 from Marion County High School.

1975

In 1975, he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in industrial arts technology with a minor in business administration from Morehead State University in Morehead in Rowan County in northeastern Kentucky.

Thereafter, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Army, trained at Fort Lee, in Prince George County near Petersburg, Virginia.

1976

In 1976, Higdon returned to Lebanon to become a partner in Key Market, subsequently Higdon's Foodtown IGA, or Independent Grocers Alliance.

2002

In 2002, with a 45 percent overall turnout of registered voters, Higdon narrowly won election for the first time to the Kentucky House from District 24 for the position vacated by Democrat William U. Scott.

Higdon defeated Democrat Connie Sue Rakes, 5,911 (51.1 percent) to 5,657 (48.9 percent).

Rakes had been unopposed for the Democratic nomination.

2004

He was reelected in 2004, 2006, and 2008.

District 24 includes Marion, Casey, and a portion of Pulaski counties.

2008

In 2008 in his last election to the House for the term which he did not complete, Higdon was endorsed by the Kentucky Education Association.

He is also a past recipient of the Joe Kelly Education Award from the Kentucky Department of Education and holds the "Friend of Education" designation from the Kentucky School Board Association.

A Roman Catholic, Higdon carries the endorsement of Kentucky Right to Life.

A backer of the Second Amendment, he has been given repeated "A+" ratings and endorsements by the NRA Political Victory Fund.

2009

On December 8, 2009, Higdon, then a state representative, won a special election for Senate District 14.

He defeated Democrat Jodie Haydon of Bardstown, Nelson County.

Haydon is also a former member of the Kentucky House.

The vacancy in the upper chamber of the legislature occurred when Republican Senator Dan Kelly of Springfield in Washington County was appointed as a state district court judge by Democratic Governor Steve Beshear.

2010

Elected the next year to a full four-year term on November 2, 2010, Higdon's first full term in office expired on December 31, 2014.

Beshear also appointed a second Republican senator, Charlie Borders of Russell in Greenup County in far northeastern Kentucky, to the Kentucky Public Service Commission, another state position with a generous retirement pension.

In both cases, Beshear hoped to open two Republican Senate seats to possible Democratic victory but failed in that goal with Higdon's election.

During his campaign Higdon opposed the generous pensions from which these senators benefit and vowed to try to repeal the higher pensions after he took office.

When he was elevated to the Senate, voters early in 2010 chose a Democrat, Terry Mills, also from Lebanon, to succeed Higdon in the House.

Mills defeated Republican Leo Johnson, 3,000 to 2,518 votes though Johnson had been an easy winner in his own Casey County.

2011

On January 22, 2011, after three consecutive years of losses, Higdon's IGA closed.

Higdon sold the business to Houchens Industries, based in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Houchens established a Save-A-Lot outlet at the former IGA location.

Higdon compared independent grocers such as himself to "dinosaurs. There's a few less every."

He continued to operate his Higdon's Appliance Service in Lebanon.

Higdon is a former board member of the Lebanon Housing Authority, the Kentucky Grocers Association, and the Marion County Chamber of Commerce.

He is affiliated with Rotary International.

Higdon is married to the former Jane Miles, a native of Loretto, also in Marion County.

The couple has two grown children, Brittany H. Nagle, and James Cecil Higdon, III, known as James Higdon on his byline.

2012

The Kentucky Supreme Court struck down the 2012 districting on the grounds that it did not comply with the federal "one man, one vote" concept.

Higdon said that he is "just really, really disappointed in the way that the plan worked out, as far as my losing Taylor County."

2013

He represents District 14, which until August 23, 2013, included Marion, Mercer, Nelson, Taylor, and Washington counties in Central Kentucky.

Under redistricting legislation signed by Governor Steve Beshear, Taylor County, where Higdon was born, was immediately removed from Higdon's District 14 and placed in District 16, then represented by Republican Sara Beth Gregory of Monticello in Wayne County.

Higdon now has a vastly revised district: Casey, Marion, Nelson, and Spencer counties as well as a portion of Jefferson County.

In addition to Taylor County and her own Wayne County, Gregory represented Adair, Clinton, Cumberland, McCreary, and Russell counties.

She lost the succeeding primary election to Max Wise of Campbellsville, now senator.