Richard Dwight "Richie" Farmer, Jr. (born August 25, 1969), is a former Commissioner of Agriculture for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He is a former shooting guard for the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team, one of four seniors on the 1991 – 1992 lineup known as "The Unforgettables".A Republican, Farmer formerly served as agriculture commissioner and was ineligible for reelection at the expiration of his term in 2012. On September 1, 2010, Farmer announced he would run for lieutenant governor on a ticket with President of the Kentucky Senate David L. Williams in the 2011 gubernatorial election. Williams and Farmer lost the election to incumbent governor Steve Beshear and his running mate, Jerry Abramson, the former mayor of Louisville.
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