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Robert Raymond Reid (1789-1841) —
also known as Robert R. Reid —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.; St. Johns
County, Fla.
Born in Beaufort
County, S.C., September
8, 1789.
Democrat. State court judge in Georgia, 1816-19, 1827-32; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1819-23; circuit judge in
Georgia, 1823-25; justice of
Florida territorial supreme court, 1832-39; delegate
to Florida state constitutional convention from St. Johns County,
1838-39; Governor of
Florida Territory, 1839-41.
Unitarian.
Died of yellow
fever. at Blackwood Plantation (now called Harwood Plantation),
Leon
County, Fla., July 1,
1841 (age 51 years, 296
days).
Interment at Harwood Plantation Cemetery.
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Millard Fillmore Caldwell, Jr. (1897-1984) —
also known as Millard F. Caldwell, Jr. —
of Milton, Santa Rosa
County, Fla.; Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla.
Born in Knoxville, Knox
County, Tenn., February
6, 1897.
Son of Millard Fillmore Caldwell and Martha Jane (Clapp) Caldwell.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1929-32; U.S.
Representative from Florida 3rd District, 1933-41; Governor of
Florida, 1945-49; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Florida, 1948,
1956;
justice
of Florida state supreme court, 1962-69.
Protestant.
Member, Sons of
the American Revolution; Kappa
Sigma; Phi
Alpha Delta; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Knights
of Pythias; Elks; Newcomen
Society; American
Legion; American
Judicature Society; Alpha
Kappa Psi; Blue Key.
Died in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., October
23, 1984 (age 87 years, 260
days).
Interment at Harwood Plantation Cemetery.
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Lawton Mainor Chiles, Jr. (1930-1998) —
also known as Lawton Chiles; "Walkin'
Lawton" —
of Lakeland, Polk
County, Fla.
Born in Lakeland, Polk
County, Fla., April 3,
1930.
Democrat. Member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1959-67; member of Florida
state senate, 1967-71; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1971-89; Governor of
Florida, 1991-98; died in office 1998; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Florida, 1996
(delegation chair).
Presbyterian.
Member, Alpha
Tau Omega.
Died, of a heart
condition, in the Governor's
Mansion, Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., December
12, 1998 (age 68 years, 253
days).
Original interment and cenotaph at Roselawn
Cemetery, Tallahassee, Fla.; reinterment at in a private or
family graveyard.
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Richard Keith Call (1792-1862) —
also known as Richard K. Call —
of Pensacola, Escambia
County, Fla.
Born near Petersburg, Dinwiddie
County, Va., October
24, 1792.
Whig. Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Florida Territory, 1823; U.S. Special
Diplomatic Agent to Cuba, 1829-30; Governor of
Florida Territory, 1836-39, 1841-44; candidate for Governor of
Florida, 1845.
Episcopalian.
Died in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., September
14, 1862 (age 69 years, 325
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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Thomas LeRoy Collins (1909-1991) —
also known as LeRoy Collins —
of Florida.
Born in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., March 10,
1909.
Son of Marvin H. Collins and Mattie (Brandon) Collins.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1934-40; member of Florida
state senate 8th District, 1940-54; served in the U.S. Navy
during World War II; Governor of
Florida, 1955-61; alternate delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Florida, 1956;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1968.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died of cancer, in
Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., March 12,
1991 (age 82 years, 2
days).
Interment in a private or family graveyard.
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Joseph A. Boyd, Jr. (1916-2007) —
of Hialeah, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.; Miami, Dade County (now Miami-Dade
County), Fla.; Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla.
Born in Hoschton, Jackson
County, Ga., November
16, 1916.
Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; lawyer; justice of
Florida state supreme court, 1969-87.
Baptist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; American
Legion; Veterans of
Foreign Wars; Elks; Lions.
Died, of heart
failure, in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., October
26, 2007 (age 90 years, 344
days).
Interment at Culley's MeadowWood Memorial Park.
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Arthur E. Teele (1946-2005) —
also known as Art Teele —
of Florida.
Born in Prince
George's County, Md., May 14,
1946.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; lawyer;
director, U.S. Urban Mass Transportation Administration, 1981-83;
Presidential Elector for Florida, 1992;
as Miami city commissioner in 1997-2004, he chaired the Community
Redevelopment Agency (CRA); an investigation
of corruption in the agency, started in 2003, led to charges
that he had accepted $135,000 in kickbacks
from two construction companies; as a result, he was removed from
office in 2004 by Gov. Jeb
Bush; in August, 2004, when he and his wife were under
surveillance, he drove his
car at a police detective in an attempt to run him
over, and also threatened
to kill police officers who had been following his wife during
the investigation; convicted
in March 2005 on charges
related to this incident; indicted
on July 14, 2005, on federal conspiracy and money
laundering charges, over a scheme to fraudulently obtain
contracts for electrical work at the Miami International Airport
through a "minority-owned" shell company; published police reports
revealed that he had put his mistress
on the CRA payroll, that he regularly bought and used cocaine,
and that he frequently made use of a male prostitute.
Church
of God in Christ. African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi; NAACP; Freemasons.
Came to the offices
of the Miami Herald newspaper, and shot himself
in the head with a semiautomatic pistol; he died two hours later in
the trauma unit of Jackson Memorial Hospital,
Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., July 27,
2005 (age 59 years, 74
days).
Interment at Culley's MeadowWood Memorial Park.
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Claude Denson Pepper (1900-1989) —
also known as Claude Pepper —
of Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla.; Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla.
Born near Dudleyville, Chambers
County, Ala., September
8, 1900.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1929-30; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1936-51; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Florida, 1940
(alternate), 1944
(alternate), 1948
(alternate), 1960,
1964,
1968;
speaker, 1988;
U.S.
Representative from Florida, 1963-89 (3rd District 1963-67, 11th
District 1967-73, 14th District 1973-83, 18th District 1983-89); died
in office 1989.
Baptist.
Member, Moose; Woodmen;
American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Elks; Kiwanis;
American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Omicron
Delta Kappa; Phi
Alpha Delta; Sigma
Upsilon; Kappa
Alpha Order; United
World Federalists.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1989.
Died in Washington,
D.C., May 30,
1989 (age 88 years, 264
days).
Interment at Oakland Cemetery.
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Thomas Alva Yon (1882-1971) —
also known as Tom A. Yon —
of Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla.
Born near Blountstown, Calhoun
County, Fla., March 14,
1882.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Florida 3rd District, 1927-33.
Died in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., February
16, 1971 (age 88 years, 339
days).
Interment at Oakland Cemetery.
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Thomas Brown (1785-1867) —
of Leon
County, Fla.
Born in Westmoreland
County, Va., October
24, 1785.
Whig. Delegate
to Florida state constitutional convention from Leon County,
1838-39; Governor of
Florida, 1849-53.
Died in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., August
24, 1867 (age 81 years, 304
days).
Interment at Old City Cemetery.
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Fred Henry Davis (1894-1937) —
also known as Fred H. Davis —
of Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla.
Born in Greenville, Greenville
County, S.C., May 18,
1894.
Son of Fred Henry Davis and Annie E. (Pearson) Davis.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Leon
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1919-20; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1921-27; Speaker of
the Florida State House of Representatives, 1927; Florida
state attorney general, 1927-31; justice of
Florida state supreme court, 1931-37; chief
justice of Florida state supreme court, 1933-35.
Methodist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Reserve
Officers Association; American
Legion; Military
Order of the World Wars; Sons
of Confederate Veterans; Phi
Alpha Delta; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Elks; Lions.
Died in Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla., June 20,
1937 (age 43 years, 33
days).
Interment at Old City Cemetery.
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James Tillinghast Archer (1819-1859) —
also known as James T. Archer —
of Florida.
Born in Gillisonville, Jasper
County, S.C., May 15,
1819.
Son of Hugh Archer and Susan Matilda (Tillinghast) Archer.
Lawyer;
U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Florida, 1840; secretary of
state of Florida, 1845-48.
The town of Archer, Florida is named for
him.
Died, of heart
disease, in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., June 1,
1859 (age 40 years, 17
days).
Interment at Old City Cemetery.
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Dorothy W. Glisson (c.1914-2001) —
of Florida.
Born about 1914.
Secretary
of state of Florida, 1974-75.
Female.
Methodist.
Member, Altrusa.
Died in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., April 10,
2001 (age about 87
years).
Interment at Roselawn Cemetery.
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Lawton Mainor Chiles, Jr. (1930-1998) —
also known as Lawton Chiles; "Walkin'
Lawton" —
of Lakeland, Polk
County, Fla.
Born in Lakeland, Polk
County, Fla., April 3,
1930.
Democrat. Member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1959-67; member of Florida
state senate, 1967-71; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1971-89; Governor of
Florida, 1991-98; died in office 1998; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Florida, 1996
(delegation chair).
Presbyterian.
Member, Alpha
Tau Omega.
Died, of a heart
condition, in the Governor's
Mansion, Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., December
12, 1998 (age 68 years, 253
days).
Original interment and cenotaph at Roselawn Cemetery; reinterment at
a private or family graveyard, Leon County,
Fla.
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Waddy Thompson, Jr. (1798-1868) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Pickens, Pickens
County, S.C., January
8, 1798.
Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1826; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 9th District, 1835-41; U.S.
Minister to Mexico, 1842-44.
Died November
23, 1868 (age 70 years, 320
days).
Interment at St. John's Episcopal Cemetery.
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William Dunnington Bloxham (1835-1911) —
also known as William D. Bloxham —
of Florida.
Born in Bedford
County, Va., July 9,
1835.
Democrat. Member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1860; served in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War; Presidential Elector for Florida, 1868;
secretary
of state of Florida, 1877-80; Governor of
Florida, 1881-85, 1897-1901; defeated, 1872.
Died in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., March 15,
1911 (age 75 years, 249
days).
Interment at St. John's Episcopal Cemetery.
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David Shelby Walker (1815-1891) —
also known as David S. Walker —
of Florida.
Born in Kentucky, May 2,
1815.
Justice
of Florida state supreme court, 1860-65; Governor of
Florida, 1865-68; defeated (American), 1856.
Died in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., July 20,
1891 (age 76 years, 79
days).
Interment at St. John's Episcopal Cemetery.
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William Henry Brockenbrough (1812-1850) —
also known as William H. Brockenbrough —
of Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla.
Born in Virginia, February
23, 1812.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1837; U.S.
Attorney for the Western District of Florida, 1838-40; member of
Florida
state senate, 1840-44; U.S.
Representative from Florida at-large, 1846-47.
Died in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., January
28, 1850 (age 37 years, 339
days).
Interment at St. John's Episcopal Cemetery.
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Robert Benjamin Hilton (1821-1894) —
of Florida.
Born in Virginia, 1821.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Representative
from Florida in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65; state court
judge in Florida, 1867.
Died in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., January
10, 1894 (age about 72
years).
Interment at St. John's Episcopal Cemetery.
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Frederick William Baldwin (1885-1934) —
also known as Frederick W. Baldwin —
of New York City (unknown
county), N.Y.
Born in Ansonia, New Haven
County, Conn., August 1,
1885.
Son of William Wilberforce Baldwin (1850-1910) and Ruby White
(Colburn) Baldwin (1862-1950).
U.S. Vice Consul in Florence, 1920-25; Lausanne, 1925-28; U.S. Consul in Lausanne, 1928-32.
Died in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., July 7,
1934 (age 48 years, 340
days).
Interment at St. John's Episcopal Cemetery.
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Relatives: Son
of William Wilberforce Baldwin (1850-1910) and Ruby White (Colburn)
Baldwin (1862-1950); brother of Cornelia Thayer Baldwin (who married
Arthur
Bliss Lane); married to Margaret Gamble
(1891-1979). |
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