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Fuller Warren

Fuller Warren (3 October 1905-23 September 1973) was the Democratic Governor of Florida from 4 January 1949 to 6 January 1953, succeeding Millard Caldwell and preceding Daniel T. McCarty.

Biography[]

Fuller Warren was born in Blountstown, Florida in 1905, and he was elected to the State House at the age of 21 while still attending university. He became a lawyer in Jacksonville on his graduation, and he served on the city council from 1931 to 1937, in the State House in 1939, as a US Navy gunnery officer during World War II, and as Governor from 1949 to 1953. He pledged to fight racism and the Klan in Florida, calling the latter "hooded hoodlums and sheeted jerks", despite having been a member before the war and left them after fighting against Nazism in Europe. Warren established the state's turnpike system and began reforestation programs, and he moved to Miami on leaving office in 1953 and died in 1973.

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