College of Law Class of 1923
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Class Year
1923
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Ray Omer Shehan, LL.B.
Bloomfield, Kentucky
Henry Clay Law Society
To begin with, Ray is Irish, as his name will indicate;
There are few such orators who reside within our state.
It is said that he is the sheik of Irishtown, and learned in legal lore,
He went to France and won the war, and is ready to fight still more.
-The Kentuckian, 1923
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Ray Omar Shehan (August 19, 1898 - March 29, 1980) was born in Nelson County, Kentucky to Wallace Hamilton Shehan and Zora Alice Murphy. Shehan practiced law in Harlan after graduation. He also served as a special judge. Shehan married Euphemia Epperson in 1977.