Category: Florida

Representative | Republican | YOUNG, CHARLES WILLIAM (BILL), A Representative from Florida; born in Harmarville, Allegheny County, Pa., December 16, 1930; Army National Guard, 1948-1957; member of the Florida state senate, 1960-1970, and minority leader, 1966-1970; member, Florida Constitution Revision Commission, 1965-1967; delegate to Republican National Convention, 1968, 1972, 1976, and 1984; elected as a… Continue reading Bill Young

Auditor / Comptroller | Democrat | WILLIAM DUNNINGTON BLOXHAM, Florida’s 13th and 17th governor, was born in Leon County, Florida, on July 9, 1835. In 1855, he graduated from William and Mary College, earning a law degree, but never practicing because of poor health. Bloxham entered politics in 1860 as a member of the Florida… Continue reading William Bloxhan

Treasurer | Democrat | NELSON, CLARENCE WILLIAM (BILL), a Senator and a Representative from Florida; born in Miami, Dade County, Fla., September 29, 1942; attended the Brevard County public schools; graduated from Melbourne High School 1960; B.A., Yale University 1965; J.D., University of Virginia School of Law 1968; admitted to the Florida bar in 1968… Continue reading Bill Nelson

Secretary of State | Republican | HARRIS, KATHERINE, a Representative from Florida; born in Key West, Monroe County, Fla., April 5, 1957; attended University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 1978; B.A., Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ga., 1979; M.P.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1996; real estate broker; member of the Florida state senate, 1994-1998; Florida secretary of… Continue reading Katherine Harris

Attorney General | Democrat | TRAMMELL, PARK, a Senator from Florida; born in Macon County, Ala., April 9, 1876; moved to Florida with his parents who settled on a farm near Lakeland, Polk County; attended the common schools in Florida; studied law at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., and graduated from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn., in… Continue reading Park Trammel

Representative | Democrat | SMATHERS, GEORGE ARMISTEAD, (Nephew of William Howell Smathers), a Representative and a Senator from Florida; born in Atlantic City, N.J., November 14, 1913; moved to Miami, Fla., in 1919; attended the public schools of Dade County, Fla.; graduated from the University of Florida at Gainesville in 1936 and from its law… Continue reading George Smathers

Representative | Democrat | YULEE, DAVID LEVY, a Delegate and a Senator from Florida; born David Levy in St. Thomas, West Indies, June 12, 1810; at the age of nine was sent to the United States to Norfolk, Va. to attend a private school; studied law in St. Augustine, Fla.; admitted to the bar in… Continue reading David Levy Yulee

Representative | Republican | WALLS, JOSIAH THOMAS, a Representative from Florida; born in Winchester, Frederick County, Va., December 30, 1842; received a limited schooling; engaged in truck farming; moved to Florida; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1868; served in the State senate 1869-1872; presented credentials as a Member-elect to the Forty-second Congress and… Continue reading Josiah Walls

Representative | Democrat | SIKES, ROBERT LEE FULTON, a Representative from Florida; born in Isabella, near Sylvester, Worth County, Ga., June 3, 1906; attended the public schools; B.S., University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., 1927; MS., University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla., 1929; engaged in the publishing business at Crestview, Fla., 1933-1946; served in the Florida state… Continue reading Bob Sikes

Representative | Whig | CABELL, EDWARD CARRINGTON, a Representative from Florida; born in Richmond, Va., February 5, 1816; attended Washington College (now Washington and Lee University), Lexington, Va., in 1832 and 1833 and Reynolds’ Classical Academy in 1833 and 1834; was graduated from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1836; moved to Florida in… Continue reading Edward Cabell