Homer Capehart, left, with Richard Nixon. Homer Capehart was born in Pike County into a family of tenant farmers who moved to Daviess County at an early age. Capehart first attained notoriety in the 1920s and ’30s as an innovator of record players and jukeboxes, eventually selling his successful business venture to the Wurlitzer company. Capehart launched his political career with the famous Cornfield Conference of 1938 on his large farmland north of Washington and later won election to the US Senate in 1944, where he served until losing the 1962 election to Birch Bayh. Courtesy of Daviess County Historical Society. Visit them for more information.