Former Governor Brereton Jones will be laid to rest tomorrow.

His family greeted visitors today in the rotunda of the state capitol where Jones's body lie in state.

Jones was born in Ohio and grew up on a dairy farm in West Virginia.

He secured a football scholarship at the University of Virginia, where he also became interested in politics at the age of 25.

He was elected to the state legislature as a Republican, where he would become the minority leader.

Jones later moved to Woodford County, Kentucky, where he lived out his dream to raise thoroughbred horses and met his wife, Libby, while visiting Quinlan.

It was in Kentucky where Jones switched to the Democratic Party and was elected lieutenant governor in 1987 under Governor Wallace Wilkinson.

He was elected governor in 1991.

On August 7th, 1992, the state helicopter, Flying Jones and several others crash landed.

There were injuries, but nothing serious.

Here's Jones recounting that day.

I think that Christ came so that I could really put my focus where it ought to be and then is in the most important things in life.

I had a vision in the early 1990s.

Governors could not run for consecutive terms after Jones left office in 1995.

He never ran for public office again.

Long time political reporter Jack Brammer was at the rotunda today.

He says Jones his legacy includes a focus also on ethics.

He was able to pass a constitutional amendment that would allow a governor to succeed himself or herself, meaning that they could run for another four year term.

But he took himself out of it because that was the only way it was going to be passed.

The previous governor, Governor Wallace Wilkinson, wanted that succession, but the legislature wouldn't give it to him because he wanted to include himself in that.

He also was active in the legislature on ethics.

In 1992, the state saw the FBI investigation of the legislature that was known as Operation Bob tried about a dozen or so legislators were found guilty of corruption.

He angered legislators after that by.

He called it a cleansing process.

A lot of legislators thought he was painting the entire legislature with a broad brush and saying they were ethical.

But he was very high on ethics of some of the other things he did besides those two issues.

He brought about mandatory seatbelt law in Kentucky.

He made sure that the percentage of people employed by state government, at least 7.4%, were minority.

And he also put in more women in state government.

And he placed the first woman, Sarah Collins, on the Kentucky Supreme Court.

I think Governor Jones's funeral is tomorrow at Forks of the Elkhorn Baptist Church in Midway, followed by a private burial.

Governor Jones was 84 years old.