Former U.S. Senator Wendell Ford turns 90 years old Monday, and to celebrate, the Wendell H. Ford Government Education Center in Owensboro will unveil a new exhibit called “Cracking the Whip.”
Ford Center Director Bruce Kunze says the exhibit focuses on the time Ford spent as whip of the U.S. Senate during the 1990s.
"It goes through the brief history of the whip's position and how Senator Ford was elected to that position unopposed," Kunze told WKU Public Radio. "It also talks about how he operated as a senator and how skilled he was at the art of compromise and at working with both parties."
Ford, who has been undergoing chemotherapy for lung cancer, is scheduled to attend the exhibit’s opening Monday evening.
The Ford Center in the Owensboro Museum of Science and History opened in 1999, the year he retired from the Senate.
