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State flag of Florida Location of Florida in the U.S. map This is a list of notable people who were born, raised, or spent significant time in the U.S. state of Florida . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Teacher, Florida State Representative, Florida State Senator, Senate President and Lieutenant Governor 2011 Harrison Reed: Florida's 9th Governor 1868-1873 2011 Nathaniel Pryor Reed Assistant to Governor Kirk 1967-1971, Assistant United States Secretary of the Interior 1971-1977 2011 Marshall E. "Doc" Rinker, Sr. Founder, Rinker Group: 2011 Jim ...
Map of the United States with Florida highlighted Map of Florida's municipalities. Florida is a state located in the Southern United States. There are 267 cities, 123 towns, and 21 villages in the U.S. state of Florida, a total of 411 municipalities. [1] They are distributed across 67 counties, in addition to 66 county governments. [2]
Florida (/ ˈ f l ɒr ɪ d ə / ⓘ, FLORR-ih-də; Spanish: [floˈɾiða]) is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.It borders the Gulf of Mexico to the west, Alabama to the northwest, Georgia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Straits of Florida and Cuba to the south.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWCC) Other executive branch agencies and departments nominally under the authority of the Cabinet include: [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DHSMV)
The governor of Florida is the head of government of the U.S. state of Florida and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. [2] The governor has a duty to enforce state laws and the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the Florida Legislature, [3] to convene the legislature [4] and grant pardons, except in cases of impeachment.
Twenty-one states have the distinction of being the birthplace of a president. One president's birth state is in dispute; North and South Carolina (British colonies at the time) both lay claim to Andrew Jackson, who was born in 1767 in the Waxhaw region along their common border. Jackson himself considered South Carolina his birth state. [1]
Duncan U. Fletcher was Florida's longest-serving senator (1909–1936). Florida is one of sixteen states alongside Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, South Dakota and Utah to have a younger senior senator and an older junior senator.