Gadsden County is a county located in the panhandle of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2010 census,the population was 46,389. Its county seat is Quincy.
Quincy is a city in and the county seat of Gadsden County,Florida,United States. The population was 7,972 at the 2010 census,up from 6,982 at the 2000 census. Quincy is part of the Tallahassee,Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Abraham Kurkindolle Allison was a Florida businessman and politician. He served in the Florida Territorial Legislature and the Florida State House of Representatives. He served as the sixth Governor of Florida,at the end of the American Civil War.
Josiah Thomas Walls was a United States congressman who served three terms in the U.S. Congress between 1871 and 1876. He was one of the first African Americans in the United States Congress elected during the Reconstruction Era,and the first black person to be elected to Congress from Florida. He also served four terms in the Florida Senate.
John Robert Marks III is an American lawyer,politician,and former Mayor of Tallahassee,Florida from February 2003 until November 2014. Marks is the longest-serving mayor in Tallahassee's history. He was elected to three consecutive terms as the city's Mayor,spanning nearly ten years. He won a third term in 2010,but declined to seek re-election for a fourth term in 2014. He was succeeded by Andrew Gillum on November 21,2014.
The history of Tallahassee,like the history of Leon County,begins with the Native American population and its interaction with British and Spanish colonists as well as Anglo-American colonists and Africans escaping colonial slavery,as the Florida Territory moved toward statehood. Growing numbers of cotton plantations increased the settlement's population greatly. It became a city and capital in 1821.
Andrew Demese Gillum is an American former politician. who served as the 126th Mayor of Tallahassee. He served as a Tallahassee city commissioner from 2003 until 2014,first elected at the age of 23. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Samuel Leon Jones is an American politician who is a member of the Alabama House of Representatives representing district 99. Jones was the first African-American mayor of Mobile,Alabama,serving from September 2005 until August 2013. He ran on a platform of safety,efficient government,historic preservation and bringing new employers to the city.
JoséAntonio Garcia Jr.,known as Joe Garcia,is an American attorney and politician. Garcia represented Florida's 26th congressional district in the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015. A Democrat,Garcia represented most of western Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys in Congress.
Curtis B. Richardson is an American elected official,who has been a member of the Tallahassee City Commission since 2014. He previously served for eight years in the Florida House of Representatives,representing parts of Gadsden and Leon Counties from 2000 to 2008.
Cynthia Moore Chestnut is a Democratic politician who served as a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1990 to 2000,representing the 23rd District. After unsuccessfully running for the Florida Senate in 2000,Chestnut was elected to the Alachua County Commission in 2002,where she served until she lost re-election in 2010.
The Tallahassee Democrat is a daily broadsheet newspaper. It covers the area centered on Tallahassee in Leon County,Florida,as well as adjacent Gadsden County,Jefferson County,and Wakulla County. The newspaper is owned by Gannett Co.,Inc.,which also owns the Pensacola News Journal,the Fort Myers News-Press,and Florida Today,along with many other news outlets.
James R. Ford was an American educator,politician,and businessman. In 1972,Ford became the first African-American mayor of Tallahassee,Florida,and the first black mayor of a U.S. state capital city. He later served for fourteen years as a city commissioner,being repeatedly re-elected.
Gadsden County High School,known as East Gadsden High School (EGHS) until 2016,is a public high school in unincorporated Gadsden County,Florida,operated by Gadsden County School District. It is between Havana and Quincy,and it has a "Havana,Florida" postal address. Starting in fall 2017 it is the zoned high school of all of Gadsden County.
The West Palm Beach mayoral election took place on November 5,1991,to elect a mayor for West Palm Beach,Florida. Officially,elections for mayor of West Palm Beach are nonpartisan. Prior to this election,the city operated under a council–manager government system since 1919,with the city commissioners choosing the mayor,a mostly ceremonial office that had less power than the city manager. However,in March 1991,voters approved a referendum to allow a strong mayor and to transition the city government to a mayor-council structure. Thus,it was the first direct election for mayor of West Palm Beach since 1919.
The Mayor of Tallahassee is head of the executive branch of the government of Tallahassee,Florida.
The Mayor of Gainesville is,for ceremonially purposes,receipt of service of legal processes and the purposes of military law,official head of the city of Gainesville,Florida and otherwise a member of,and chair of,the city commission,required to preside at all meetings thereof. The mayor is also allowed to vote on all matters that come before the city commission,but has no veto powers.
Kathy L. Garner is a judge for Gadsden County,Florida,and is the county's first black female judge. She has been noted for her work with juvenile cases in the county,and has been credited with helping reduce the number of juvenile arrests and re-offenders.
The 2022 Tallahassee mayoral election is scheduled to be held on Tuesday,November 8,2022,to elect the Mayor of Tallahassee,Florida. The election is set to be held subsequently along with the 2022 midterm elections with a first-round primary being set for August 23,2022,and from there are proceeded to a second-round runoff,if nesseccary.
John B. Riley was an American politician who served as mayor and commissioner of Opa-Locka,Florida.
