Franklin D. Roosevelt
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President Roosevelt is responsible for signing into law an act creating the Rural Electrification Act, which made possible rural electric cooperatives in Kentucky. Courtesy of the University of Kentucky.
This file appears in: First Kentucky Consumer Rural Cooperative Electricity
First Kentucky Consumer Rural Cooperative Electricity
Historical Marker #1392 in Henderson County marks the location where the first Kentucky customer received rural electricity from an electric cooperative.
In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the law creating the Rural Electrification…