Fernando Figueredo was the first Cuban-American to serve in the Florida State Legislature. He represented Monroe County in 1885. He also had many other accomplishments under his name. [1]
He served as county school superintendent. [2]
Fernando Figueredo was the first Cuban-American to serve in the Florida State Legislature. He represented Monroe County in 1885. He also had many other accomplishments under his name. [1]
He served as county school superintendent. [2]
Samuel Jones Tilden was an American politician who served as the 25th governor of New York and was the Democratic nominee in the disputed 1876 United States presidential election.
St. Augustine is a city in and the county seat of St. Johns County located 40 miles south of downtown Jacksonville. The city is on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida. Founded in 1565 by Spanish colonists, it is the oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement in what is now the contiguous United States.
John Morris, Baron Morris of Aberavon, was a Welsh politician. He was a Labour Party Member of Parliament for over 41 years, from 1959 to 2001, which included a period as Secretary of State for Wales from 1974 to 1979 and as Attorney General between 1997 and 1999. A native Welsh speaker, he was the last living former Labour MP who was first elected in the 1950s. He was also the last surviving member of Harold Wilson's 1974–76 cabinet, and was the longest-serving Privy Counsellor at the time of his death. His combined parliamentary service totalled over 60 years.
Edmund Kirby Smith was a Confederate States Army general, who oversaw the Trans-Mississippi Department from 1863 to 1865. Before the American Civil War, Smith served as an officer of the United States Army.
William Dunnington Bloxham was the 13th and 17th Governor of Florida in two non-consecutive terms. Prior to his first term as governor, he served in the Florida House of Representatives.
Richard Keith Call was an American attorney, politician, and enslaver who served as the 3rd and 5th territorial governor of Florida. Before that, he was elected to the Florida Territorial Council and as a delegate to the U.S. Congress from Florida. In the mid-1830s, he developed two plantations in Leon County, Florida, one of which was several thousand acres in size. In 1860, Call enslaved more than 120 people and enslaved the third-most people in the county. Call was also a Southern Unionist opposed to Florida's declared secession during the American Civil War.
Abraham Kurkindolle Allison was a Florida businessman and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Florida Territorial Legislature and the Florida State House of Representatives as well as the sixth Governor of Florida at the end of the American Civil War.
David Shelby Walker was the eighth Governor of Florida, serving from 1865 to 1868. He served in the Florida House of Representatives and as Mayor of Tallahassee. He also served as a judge.
Harrison Jackson Reed was an American editor and politician who had most of his political career in Florida. He was elected in 1868 as the ninth Governor of Florida, serving until 1873 during the Reconstruction era. Born in Littleton, Massachusetts, he moved as a youth with his family to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he had a grocery store and started farming. He also owned and edited the Milwaukee Sentinel for several years.
Ossian Bingley Hart was the 10th Governor of Florida from 1873 to 1874, and the first governor of Florida who was born in the state.
John Morris Sheppard was a Democratic United States Congressman and United States Senator from Texas. He authored the Eighteenth Amendment (Prohibition) and introduced it in the Senate, and is referred to as "the father of national Prohibition."
William Henry Gleason was an American politician from Florida. He was Florida's second lieutenant governor, and he was very briefly acting governor.
Fort Ward was a Confederate States of America fort located in Wakulla County, Florida, at the confluence of the Wakulla River and St. Marks River and named after Colonel George T. Ward, owner of Southwood Plantation, Waverly Plantation, and Clifford Place Plantation south of Tallahassee. During the American Civil War, Confederate troops placed a battery of cannons at Fort Ward.
Raymond Thomas Odierno was an American military officer who served as a four-star general of the United States Army and as the 38th chief of staff of the Army. Prior to his service as chief of staff, Odierno commanded United States Joint Forces Command from October 2010 until its disestablishment in August 2011. He served as Commanding General, United States Forces – Iraq and its predecessor, Multi-National Force – Iraq, from September 2008 through September 2010.
Dennis J. Patrick O'Grady was an American politician in the state of Florida. A Republican, he was the youngest person elected to the Florida State Senate. He won his seat at age 23 in a court-ordered election on March 28, 1967, to represent the 15th District and served until 1968. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and had worked as a building contractor and nurseryman.
Thomas Morris McHugh was an Irish American immigrant and lawyer who served as the first Secretary of State of Wisconsin. He had previously served as Secretary of the Territorial Council and the second Wisconsin Constitutional Convention.
In June 1962, inmates Clarence Anglin, John Anglin, and Frank Morris escaped from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison located on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, California, United States. Late on the night of June 11 or early morning of June 12, the three men tucked papier-mâché model heads resembling their own likenesses into their beds, broke out of the main prison building via ventilation ducts and an unguarded utility corridor, and departed the island aboard an improvised inflatable raft to an uncertain fate. A fourth conspirator, Allen West, failed in his escape attempt and remained on the island.
Morris Sheppard Arnold is a Senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas.
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