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Dan Kelly (politician)

American politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ124842765 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dan Kelly (born 1950) is an American politician from Kentucky who was a member of the Kentucky Senate from 1991 to 2009. Kelly was first elected in 1990, defeating incumbent Democratic senator Ed O'Daniel. He resigned from the senate in October 2009, having been appointed to the 11th Kentucky Circuit Court by governor Steve Beshear.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Dan Kelly (politician)” is american politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Kelly, politician and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1950, 1991, 2009, 1990—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1950-01-01. For this dossier, Kelly, politician and American is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “american politician” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q124842765. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1950, 1991, 2009 and 1990.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Dan Kelly (politician)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Dan Kelly (politician) primary sources, Dan Kelly (politician) archive and Kelly research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Dan Kelly (politician)”?
  2. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
  3. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Dan Kelly (politician)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.