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Florida's 13th congressional district is an electoral district for the U.S. Congress on Florida's Gulf Coast,reassigned in 2012,effective January 2013,to Pinellas County. The district includes St. Petersburg,Largo,and Clearwater.
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.
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Frank Winston Peterman,Jr. is a Democratic politician who was a member of the Florida House of Representatives for District 55 and who served as the Secretary of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice. He was first elected to the Florida House in 2000 and served until 2008. He was appointed by Governor Charlie Crist to head the Department of Juvenile Justice in February 2008,where he served until February 2011. His appointment spurred a special election to serve out the remainder of his term that was won by Darryl Rouson,former St. Petersburg NAACP president. Peterman is married to St. Petersburg native June Kicklighter and they have four children.
Ed Hooper is a Republican member of the Florida Senate,representing the 16th District,which includes Clearwater and Largo in northern Pinellas County and western Pasco County,since 2018.
Jeffrey P. Brandes is an American politician serving as the Florida State Senator from the 24th district since 2016. A member of the Republican Party,he has been elected from the Pinellas County area to the Florida Senate since 2012,representing the 22nd district from 2012 to 2016. Brandes previously served as the Florida State Representative for the 52nd district from 2010 to 2012.
St. Petersburg,Florida,held an election for mayor on August 27 and November 5,2013. A non-partisan primary election was held on August 27,2013. No candidate won a majority of the vote,so the top two finishers,incumbent Mayor Bill Foster and former State Representative Rick Kriseman,advanced to a runoff.
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David Wilson Jolly is an American attorney,former lobbyist and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Florida's 13th congressional district,based in Pinellas County,from 2014 to 2017. A former Republican,he previously served as general counsel to his predecessor,Bill Young. He won the race for Young's seat in a special election against Democrat Alex Sink. He was subsequently reelected in November 2014,winning 75 percent of the vote,but was unseated in 2016 by former Governor Charlie Crist after court-ordered redistricting made his district more Democratic. Since leaving office,Jolly has become a prominent Republican critic of U.S. president Donald Trump. In September 2018,Jolly announced he had left the Republican Party.
Christopher Joseph Sprowls is an American attorney and Republican politician from Florida. He served as speaker of the Florida House of Representatives for the 2020–22 legislative term and has represented the 65th District,which includes Clearwater,Dunedin,and Tarpon Springs in northern Pinellas County,since 2014.
Wengay M. Newton is an American politician from Florida. A Democrat,he served two terms in the Florida House of Representatives from 2016 to 2020,representing parts of Pinellas,Sarasota,Manatee,and Hillsborough Counties.
St. Petersburg,Florida,held an election for mayor on August 24,2021. Incumbent Democratic mayor Rick Kriseman is term-limited and cannot seek re-election to a third term in office. Municipal elections in St. Petersburg are officially nonpartisan. All candidates appeared on the same primary ballot,and because no candidate garnered at least 50% of the vote,the top two vote-getters advanced to a runoff election on November 2,2021. Former Pinellas County commissioner Ken Welch easily defeated city councillor Robert Blackmon in the runoff and became the first black mayor of St. Petersburg.
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- ↑ "The Voter's Self Defense System". Vote Smart.
- 1 2 3 "Rudy Bradley is forging his own path through Florida's new politics". Tampa Bay Times.
- ↑ "Rudolph Bradley easily wins short-lived District 55 term". Tampa Bay Times.
- ↑ He was the first black athlete at the University of Tampa, winning a scholarship in 1966 and graduating in 1969. After earning a master's degree in social work from the University of Michigan, he returned to St. Petersburg, where he has been a social worker in the county schools for more than 20 years.
- ↑ "Rudy Bradley | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org.