Career
Gable lost in a landslide to the incumbent Democrat, Governor Julian Carroll. Carroll received 470,159 votes (628 percent) to Gable"s 277,998 (372 percent). In 1995, Gable again sought the governor"s office but lost by a large margin in the Republican primary.
With Shirley West. Palmer-Ball, his 1975 running mate reprising that role, Gable lost the primary with 17,054 votes (145 percent) to Larry Forgy and Tom Handy"s 97,099 votes (824 percent).
Forgy, as the Republican nominee, was then defeated in the general election by the popular Democrat choice, Paul East. Patton. Gable formerly resided in Stearns in McCreary County in south Kentucky.
He is a chairman of the Kentucky Republican Party.
