Clay Wade bailey was a veteran Frankfort reporter for various newspapers, covering events in the state capital for 46 years. He knew every Kentucky governor or governor-to-be from J.C.W. Beckham to John Y. Brown, Jr. Bailey started his journalism career in 1927 as assistant to chief of the Courier-Journal’s Frankfort bureau, uncovering numerous scandals in state government. He served as reporter and columnist for the Kentucky Post. Bailey was manager of the Frankfort bureau of United Press and correspondent for the Lexington Herald and the Lexington Leader. He was named state director of publicity in 1948 and returned to newspaper work eight years later. Bailey had an uncanny photographic memory and the ability to read government documents upside down which he saw on officials’ desks. The bridge over the Ohio River at Covington was named in his honor. Clay Wade Bailey died on February 19, 1974.