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The Florida Department of State and the Florida League of Cities created the program in 1998 to help celebrate the approaching end of the millennium.The process dedicated a special series of commemorative panels in cities throughout the state recognizing deceased individuals who made significant contributions to the history and culture of Florida.
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)
Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte – attorney, civil-rights activist, former dean of the Florida State University Law School, former president of Florida State University, president of the American Bar Association and the American Judicature Society; Paul Dirac – Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose theories predicted antimatter
They had four children who all owned and worked on the plantation. When Anna Kingsley turned 18, Mr. Kingsley gave Anna permission to run the plantation until 1821, when Spanish Florida became Florida territory. Mr. Kingsley had to surrender over his land. Today, the Kingsley Plantation is a historic landmark in Jacksonville, Florida. [8]
Perry Como. The crooner, famous for his annual Christmas specials, lived in Jupiter Inlet Colony until his death in 2001. He called the area “a little piece of heaven.”
Diana Nyad (born 1949), author, journalist, motivational speaker, long-distance swimmer; famous for being the first person to swim from Cuba to Key West without the aid of a shark cage [20] Bettie Page (1923–2008), pin-up model [ 21 ]
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Charlie Crist (b. 1956), U.S. Representative and former governor of Florida [53] Bill Heller (1935–2020), Member of the Florida House of Representatives and Dean of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg College of Education. Zeola Hershey Misener (1878–1966), suffragist and one of the first women elected to the Indiana General ...