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Bill Gunter [ 7 ] Florida State Senator 1966-72; United States House of Representatives from 1973–75; Florida insurance commissioner, treasurer and fire marshal 1976-88. 2013. Wayne Huizenga [ 7 ] Founder of Waste Management, Blockbuster Video and AutoNation; owner of Florida Marlins and Florida Panthers. 2013.
Exposed CIA secret involvement with the war in Laos and interviews with world figures; historian author of Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State and Miami: City of the Future: Born in Tampa [citation needed] Kristen Arnett (1980–) Fiction author and essayist. Her debut novel, Mostly Dead Things, was a New York Times bestseller.
Later Kinhagee's people migrated south, maintaining their local village name Miccosukee as the name of the tribe. 1962–1985: William Buffalo Tiger, [2] also Buffalo Tiger [3] or Heenehatche, (1920–2015), first chief of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, led initiatives for self-determination [4] 1986–2011: [5] Billy Cypress ...
Tommy Hazouri (1945–2021), former Jacksonville mayor and city council president. Corrine Brown (born 1946), former U.S. representative. John Rutherford (born 1952), Sheriff of Jacksonville 2004–2015, U.S. representative 2017-present. Angela Corey (born 1954), lawyer and State Attorney, 4th Judicial Circuit 2009–2012.
Six sites are in state parks and managed by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. [2] Also included is a site determined eligible for National Historic Landmark status, [3] and a list of historical sites in Florida managed by the U.S. National Park Service which also have national significance. [4]
Henry Morrison Flagler (January 2, 1830 – May 20, 1913) was an American industrialist and a founder of Standard Oil, which was first based in Ohio. He was also a key figure in the development of the Atlantic coast of Florida and founder of the Florida East Coast Railway. He is also known as a co-founder and major investor of the cities of ...
By 1860, Florida had 140,424 people, of whom 44% were enslaved and fewer than 1,000 were free people of color. [ 54 ] : 157 Florida also had one of the highest per capita murder rates prior to the Civil War, thanks to a weakened central government, the institution of slavery, and a troubled political history.
t. e. The Indigenous peoples of Florida lived in what is now known as Florida for more than 12,000 years before the time of first contact with Europeans. However, the indigenous Floridians living east of the Apalachicola River had largely died out by the early 18th century.