children birth_place profession party birth_date spouse residence article_title name
elizabeth b. gable place of birth missing businessman republican gubernatorial nominee in 1975 c. 1933 emily t. gable frankfort , franklin county , kentucky bob gable
 robert elledy `` bob '' gable
bob gable

robert elledy gable , known as bob gable -lrb- born c. 1933 -rrb- , is a businessman from frankfort , who was the kentucky republican gubernatorial nominee in 1975 .
gable lost in a landslide to the incumbent democrat , governor julian carroll .
carroll received 470,159 votes -lrb- 62.8 percent -rrb- to gable 's 277,998 -lrb- 37.2 percent -rrb- .
in 1995 , gable again sought the governor 's office , and lost in an even greater landslide in the republican primary .
with shirley w. palmer-ball , his 1975 running mate reprising that role , gable lost the primary with 17,054 votes -lrb- 14.5 percent -rrb- to larry forgy and tom handy 's 97,099 votes -lrb- 82.4 percent -rrb- .
forgy , as the republican nominee , was then defeated in the general election by the democrat choice , paul e. patton .
gable formerly resided in stearns in mccreary county in south kentucky .
he and his wife , emily t. gable , now reside in frankfort .
he is 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 .
