Hopkinsville Mayor Dan Kemp is Murray State's Newest Regent

WKMS | By Chad Lampe

Published August 2, 2014 at 1:28 PM CDT

Hopkinsville Mayor Dan Kemp, 68, is the newest member of the Murray State University Board of Regents. Governor Beshear’s office released Kemp’s name on Friday along with many other gubernatorial appointees. Kemp, a Democrat, replaces the term limited Marilyn Buchanon, also a Democrat.

Kemp was born in Murray and is an alumnus of Murray State and the University of Kentucky School of Law. Kemp spent four years in the Army from 1971-1975.

Kemp is not seeking another mayoral term. He is married to his wife Henrietta with whom he has four children, one stepson and six grandchildren.

MSU's board of eleven members consists of eight gubernatorial appointees and three elected positions within the University' s faculty, staff and students.

Kemp's six-year term expires June 30, 2020.

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Chad Lampe, a Poplar Bluff, Missouri native, was raised on radio. He credits his father, a broadcast engineer, for his technical knowledge, and his mother for the gift of gab. At ten years old he broke all bonds of the FCC and built his own one watt pirate radio station. His childhood afternoons were spent playing music and interviewing classmates for all his friends to hear. At fourteen he began working for the local radio stations, until he graduated high school. He earned an undergraduate degree in Psychology at Murray State, and a Masters Degree in Mass Communication. In November, 2011, Chad was named Station Manager in 2016.

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