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Florida University System Chancellor & IFAS Founder 1997 Cecil Farris Bryant: Florida's 34th Governor 1961-1965 1994 George A. Smathers: US Senator 1951-1969 1994 Stephen C. O'Connell: Florida Supreme Court Justice 1966-1967 & UF President 1967-1973 1993 B. K. Roberts: Three-Time Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court 1990 Chester Howell ...
In 2007, the legislature resurrected, revised, and formalized the program. It has been codified in the Florida Statutes: [3]. 267.0731 Great Floridians Program.--The division (Florida Department of State) shall establish and administer a program, to be entitled the Great Floridians Program, which shall be designed to recognize and record the achievements of Floridians, living and deceased, who ...
Pages in category "Lists of people from Florida" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. ... Florida; List of Great Floridians; I.
Honored in 2000 as one of its "Great Floridians" by the Florida Department of State, his Great Floridian commemorative plaque is located at E.R. Bradley's Saloon at 104 Clematis Street in West Palm Beach. Edward R. Bradley died at Idle Hour Stock Farm on August 15, 1946, at age 86. He was buried next to his wife in Lexington's Calvary Cemetery.
Florida State Representative (1999–2007) Lived in Naples Abraham Katz (1926–2013) Diplomat, United States Ambassador to the OECD: Bill Nelson (1942–) Former U.S. senator from Florida (2001–2019), former U.S. congressman from Florida (1979–1991), NASA administrator (2021–) Born in Miami Janet Reno (1938–2016)
He was named a Great Floridian in 2000, and Pellicer Creek is named in his honor. Francisco Pellicer was born in the parish of Leon in Menorca around 1747 to Antonio Pellicer and Juana Sintes. At approximately age 21, he came to New Smyrna, Florida as a member of Andrew Turnbull's colony. He married Margarita Femanias and they had two children ...
These settlers were some of the few Spaniards who remained in Florida when the territory was ceded to Great Britain in 1763. Their descendants founded the Los Floridanos Society in St. Augustine, [ 9 ] whose main function is to teach the history and legacy of the first settlers (1565-1763) to interested people.
The demonym for a person from the American state of Florida. List of people from Florida; Floridian (train, 1971–1979), a train operated by Amtrak from 1971 to 1979; Floridian, a train that Amtrak launched in 2024; Miami Floridians, a professional basketball franchise in the original, now-defunct American Basketball Association