Albert Waller Gilchrist (15 January 1858-15 May 1926) was the Democratic Governor of Florida from 5 January 1909 to 7 January 1913, succeeding Napoleon B. Broward and preceding Park Trammell.
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Albert Waller Gilchrist was born in Greenwood, South Carolina in 1858, and he worked as a civil engineer and realtor before becoming an orange grower in Punta Gorda, Florida. He served as a captain in the US Army during the Spanish-American War, in the State House from 1893 to 1895 and from 1903 to 1905, and as Governor from 1909 to 1913. Gilchrist supervised the passage of progressive legislation such as a pure food and drug law, improved conditions for prisoners, and the creation of a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients. He failed in his 1916 US Senate bid and died in 1926.