The Governors of Florida

Name: The Governors of Florida
Author: R. Boyd Murphree
ISBN: 9780813066240

Edited by R. Boyd Murphree and Robert A. Taylor

Published by: University Press of Florida

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.

720 Pages7.00 × 10.0050 b/w illus., notes, bibliography, index

Hardcover
9780813066240
Published: May 19, 2020

$90.00

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Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal in Florida Nonfiction

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.

Contents 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 Index Contributors