A bronze statue of James Kennedy Patterson, the first president of the University of Kentucky, sits in a court yard between buildings, on the University campus. “The Grand Old Man” of the University, as he is known, served from 1869 to 1910, transforming the Agricultural and Mechanical (A&M) College of Kentucky into the independent state university that it is today. The statue has stood on the campus since 1934.
The University of Kentucky, with a student body of more than 30,000, is located in Lexington, Kentucky’s second largest city
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