Talk:Spencer Cobb

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Established as a (however brief) member of a US State legislature under the guidelines WP:NPOLITICIAN and WP:SUBNAT. —🌊PacificDepths (talk) 22:55, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

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The result was: promoted by TarnishedPath (talk) 05:23, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

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• ... that Spencer Cobb was a Kentucky Senator for less than four hours?

• Source: "State Sen. Cobb Dies of Attack". Middlesboro Daily News. January 2, 1962. p. 1.

https://legislature.ky.gov/LRC/Publications/Informational%20Bulletins/ib175b.pdf

"Conversely, the shortest tenure was that of Sen. Spencer L. Cobb (D-Nicholasville), who died 2 hours after taking the oath of office, January 1, 1962, the day before the 1962 Regular Session convened."

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  • Comment: I saw this in WP:Articles for creation review and I thought it was a cool fact.

Moved to mainspace by William R. Wilks II (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

—🌊PacificDepths (talk) 23:15, 7 December 2025 (UTC).

• Comment: I made a correction which replaced the citation for the time the oath was administered to Cobb's time of death with the correct source (Lexington Leader p. 2, January 2, 1962, "Spencer Cobb dies after taking oath"). I can make this article available if it is inaccessible for others. Honored to have this article nominated, it is a first for me! William R. Wilks II (talk) 18:57, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: This might be a case of WP:IAR, but since the fact itself could be presented as part of a WP:CALC, I think it is appropriate to just laid out the exact duration of his "term": three and a half hours. The duration is, per CALC, a meaningful reflection of the sources, and it would be much more concise and interesting from my side. Anyways, it's just a suggestion, feel free to override me on that! Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 04:11, 10 December 2025 (UTC)