Tallahassee is the capital city of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Leon County. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida,then the Florida Territory,in 1824. In 2020,the population was 196,169,making it the eighth-largest city in the state of Florida. The population of the Tallahassee metropolitan area was 385,145 as of 2018. Tallahassee is the largest city in the Florida Big Bend and Florida Panhandle region,and the main center for trade and agriculture in the Florida Big Bend and Southwest Georgia regions.
Thomas Kent Wetherell was an American politician and educator. He served as a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1980 to 1992,and was president of Florida State University from 2003 through 2009.
St. Petersburg College (SPC) is a public college in Pinellas County,Florida. It is part of the Florida College System and one of the institutions in the system designated a "state college," as it offers a greater number of bachelor's degrees than traditional community colleges focused on associate degrees. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and enrolled about 29,000 students in the fall of 2018.
Albert Alexander Murphree was an American college professor and university president. Murphree was a native of Alabama,and became a mathematics instructor after earning his bachelor's degree. He later served as the third president of Florida State College from 1897 to 1909,and the second president of the University of Florida from 1909 to 1927. Murphree is the only person to have been the president of both of Florida's original state universities,the University of Florida and Florida State University,and he played an important role in the organization,growth and ultimate success of both institutions.
Douglas Lee "Tim" Jamerson,Jr. was a Florida Commissioner of Education. He was appointed to the position in 1993 after Betty Castor resigned to become President of the University of South Florida. He was defeated in his bid for a full term in 1994 by Frank Brogan.
Stetson University College of Law,founded in 1900 and part of Stetson University,is Florida's first law school. Originally located near the university's main campus in DeLand,Florida,the law school moved in 1954 to Gulfport,Florida. The law school occupies a historic 1920s resort hotel,the Rolyat Hotel,designed by Richard Kiehnel. The College of Law is accredited by the American Bar Association and has been a member of the Association of American Law Schools since 1931. The college also has a campus in Tampa,Florida that shares space with a working court,Florida's Second District Court of Appeal.
Ion Voltaire Sancho was an elected public official who served Leon County,Florida,as Supervisor of Elections for 28 years,from 1989 to 2017. During his time in office,he was admired for his integrity as a voter advocate and elections expert,and became nationally known for his role in the Florida presidential election recount of 2000. He was also known for his appearance in the 2006 investigative documentary Hacking Democracy.
William Cato Cramer Sr.,was an American attorney and politician,elected in 1954 as a member of the United States House of Representatives from St. Petersburg,Florida. He was the first Florida Republican elected to Congress since 1880,shortly after the end of Reconstruction. He was re-elected,serving without interruption until 1970.
The history of Florida State University dates to the 19th century and is deeply intertwined with the history of education in the state of Florida and in the city of Tallahassee. Florida State University,known colloquially as Florida State and FSU,is one of the oldest and largest of the institutions in the State University System of Florida. It traces its origins to the West Florida Seminary,one of two state-funded seminaries the Florida Legislature voted to establish in 1851.
Stephen Cornelius O'Connell was an American attorney,appellate judge and university president. O'Connell was a native of Florida,and earned bachelor's and law degrees before becoming a practicing attorney. He later was chosen to be a justice of the Florida Supreme Court from 1955 to 1967,and served as the sixth president of the University of Florida from 1967 to 1973.
Fred Jerome Gainous is an American academic administrator. He was the 9th president of Florida A&M University,serving from 2002 until 2004. He also served as chancellor of Alabama's community college system from 1988 until 2002.
Norman L. Stephens Jr. is an American academic,and the former President of Lincoln Land Community College. Stephens graduated with his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Florida. He received his master's degree from the University of Florida as well. In addition,he received his doctorate in education in 1971. He began his career in 1968 at St. Petersburg College,and he was the President of Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield. In September 2002,Dr. Stephens was selected to be President of South Florida Community College.
Carl Martin Kuttler Jr. is the former president of St. Petersburg College in St. Petersburg,Florida,which he headed from 1978 to 2009.
Doak Sheridan Campbell was from 1941 to 1957 president of Florida State College for Women and its successor coeducational school,Florida State University. He oversaw the creation of this new university. His opposition to the admission of African-American students has caused controversy about the naming of Doak S. Campbell Stadium in his honor.
Harold William Heller was an American politician and educator.
The history of the University of Florida is firmly tied to the history of public education in the state of Florida. The University of Florida originated as several distinct institutions that were consolidated to create a single state-supported university by the Buckman Act of 1905. The oldest of these was the East Florida Seminary,one of two seminaries of higher learning established by the Florida Legislature. The East Florida Seminary opened in Ocala 1853,becoming the first state-supported institution of higher learning in the state of Florida. As it is the oldest of the modern University of Florida's predecessor institutions,the school traces its founding date to that year. The East Florida Seminary closed its Ocala campus at the outbreak of the American Civil War and reopened in Gainesville in 1866
John M. "Jack" Bevan was an American academic and innovator in higher education.
Gregory Lawrence Parkes is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Parkes has been serving as the fifth bishop of the Diocese of St. Petersburg in Florida since 2017. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee in Florida from 2012 to 2016.
C. Bette Wimbish was one of the leading African-American woman activists in Florida promoting the desegregation of schools and civil equality. She was most commonly known as a civil rights activist,a politician,and the first African American on the St. Petersburg,Florida city council. As well as being the first African-American to hold elected office in the Tampa Bay area in the 20th-century,Wimbish was also the first black female lawyer in Pinellas County,Florida. She was the wife of Ralph Wimbish and the mother of three children.
