LOUISVILLE (WHAS11) -- Republican Matt Bevin's win also catapulted his running mate, Jenean Hampton, into the history books and the national spotlight.
Hampton is now the first African-American to win a statewide office in Kentucky.
She's not a member of the party some would expect to be behind a candidate making this kind of history, but one of the men who stood behind Hampton during the election suggests it should make no difference to those viewing the election as a watershed event for Kentucky.
The image of Lieutenant Governor-Elect Hampton, says Pastor Jerry L Stephenson, sends a strong message to young people in the African-American community.
"It says that there is no glass ceiling for them," Stephenson said. "They are able now to have a dream come. You can become the Lieutenant Governor, you can become anything you want."
Pastor Jerry Stephenson and Kentucky Pastors in Action Coalition campaigned for Hampton on the group's platform that education was the only issue that mattered.
Last week, at a KPAC event in West Louisville, Hampton credited education for helping her "escape Detroit". Now Pastor Stephenson expects her to create a similar path for others.
"She's going to work for every part of our community, and that's what blacks need," he said. "We are part of our whole community. We're not just part of West Louisville. The Black Community and Jenean Hampton gives us that Blacks are part of Kentucky."
But Jenean Hampton is not the only one connected to this ticket creating a Kentucky first.
Take the image of Governor-Elect Bevin's family, a diverse brood of nine, shattering stereotypes of a first family.
They would be the first African-American children to call the Governor's Mansion their home, if the family moves in.
Pastor Stephenson smiled adding, "Can you imagine? Some black children are going to be in the Governor's house. Brother, that is magic!"
It's unclear whether the Bevin's will use the mansion but Pastor Stephenson suggests, either way, their story puts an important new image in front of those with only a negative image of what's possible in Kentucky.
