200 years of Florida history through the stories of its governors.The Governors of Florida is an unparalleled two-hundred-year history of Florida's highest office. This volume provides the first in-depth examination of all of Florida's chief executives from the acquisition of Spanish Florida by the United States and the appointment of Andrew Jackson as the territory's first governor in 1821 to the end of Rick Scott's tenure in 2019. Each of the fifty chapters features the life and legacy of a different individual who held the governorship during Florida's territorial or statehood periods. These brief biographies describe the backgrounds of the governors, the reasons they were elected or appointed, their legislative agendas, stories of how they dealt with crises, their successes and failures, and their impacts on the state. The chapters provide windows into the major issues each governor faced during office, including the Seminole Wars, slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, railroad building, Everglades drainage, World Wars I and II, the Cold War, civil rights, education reform, and the death penalty. Detailing the personalities, decisions, and accomplishments of Florida's governors as well as vividly portraying the eras they lived through, this is the definitive volume on the office and a fascinating historical journey through the Sunshine State.
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978-0-8130-6624-0 (9780813066240)
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R. Boyd Murphree, project manager at the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries, is a former archivist for the State Archives of Florida and former assistant editor for the Papers of Abraham Lincoln project.
Robert A. Taylor is associate dean and head of the School of Arts and Communication and professor of history at the Florida Institute of Technology. He is the coeditor of This War So Horrible: The Civil War Diary of Hiram Smith Williams, 40th Alabama Confederate Pioneer.
Foreword by Bob Martinez
Preface by R. Boyd Murphree
Introduction
1. Andrew Jackson - Mark R. Cheathem
2. William Pope DuVal - James M. Denham
3. John Henry Eaton - James M. Denham
4. Richard Keith Call - Jim G. Cusick
5. Robert Raymond Reid - James M. Denham
6. John Branch - James M. Denham
7. William Dunn Moseley - Francis Hodges and Richard Soash
8. Thomas Brown - R. Boyd Murphree
9. James Emilius Broome - Joe Knetsch
10. Madison Starke Perry - R. Boyd Murphree
11. John Milton - R. Boyd Murphree
12. Abraham Kurkindolle Allison - R. Boyd Murphree
13. William Marvin - R. Boyd Murphree
14. David Shelby Walker - Canter Brown Jr.
15. Harrison Reed - Larry Eugene Rivers
16. Ossian Bingley Hart - Canter Brown Jr.
17. Marcellus Lovejoy Stearns - Canter Brown Jr.
18. George Franklin Drew - Seth A. Weitz and R. Boyd Murphree
19. William Dunnington Bloxham - Joe Knetsch
20. Edward Aylsworth Perry - Daniel R. Weinfeld
21. Francis Philip Fleming - Jonathan C. Sheppard
22. Henry Laurens Mitchell - Rodney Kite-Powell
23. William Sherman Jennings - R. Boyd Murphree
24. Napoleon Bonaparte Broward - Joe Knetsch and R. Boyd Murphree
25. Albert Walker Gilchrist - Ric Kabat
26. Park Monroe Trammell - Robert Cassanello
27. Sidney Johnston Catts - Eliot Kleinberg
28. Cary Augustus Hardee - Maxine D. Jones
29. John Wellborn Martin - Billy Townsend
30. Doyle Elam Carlton - Scott A. Suarez
31. David Sholtz - Todd C. Richardson
32. Frederick Preston Cone - David J. Nelson
33. Spessard Lindsey Holland - Jon S. Evans
34. Millard Fillmore Caldwell - Gary R. Mormino
35. Fuller Warren - Debbie Lelekis
36. Daniel "Dan" Thomas McCarty - Robert A. Taylor
37. Charley Eugene Johns - Robert A. Taylor
38. Thomas LeRoy Collins - Martin A. Dyckman
39. Cecil Farris Bryant - Larry Omar Rivers
40. William Haydon Burns - David J. Nelson
41. Claude Roy Kirk Jr. - Edmund F. Kallina Jr.
42. Reubin O'Donovan Askew - Gordon E. Harvey
43. Daniel Robert "Bob" Graham - Steven Noll
44. John Wayne Mixson - Seth A. Weitz
45. Robert "Bob" Martinez - Heidi Hatfield Edwards
46. Lawton Mainor Chiles - Randy Sanders
47. Kenneth Hood "Buddy" MacKay Jr. - Seth A. Weitz
48. John Ellis "Jeb" Bush - Daryl Paulson
49. Charles Joseph "Charlie" Crist Jr. - R. Boyd Murphree
50. Richard Lynn "Rick" Scott - R. Boyd Murphree
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