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Reubin O'Donovan Askew

Party Affiliation

Democrat

Lt. Governor

Tom Adams (1971-1975); James Williams (1975-1979)

First Lady

Donna Lou Harper Askew

Florida Cabinet

Secretary of State:
Richard Stone
(1971-1974);
Dorothy Glisson
(1974-1975);
Bruce Smathers
(1975-1978);
Jesse McCrary
(1978-1979)
Comptroller:
Fred O. Dickinson
(1965-1975);
Gerald Lewis
(1975-1995)
Treasurer & Insurance Commissioner:
Thomas D. O’Malley
(1971-1975);
Philip F. Ashler
(1975-1976);
William D. “Bill” Gunter
(1976-1989)
Commissioner of Agriculture:
Doyle Conner
(1961-1991)
Attorney General:
Robert L. Shevin
(1971-1979)
Commissioner of Education:
Floyd T. Christian
(1969-1974);
Ralph D. Turlington
(1974-1986)
Reubin Askew

Reubin O'Donovan Askew (1928-)

Thirty-seventh governor:
January 5, 1971 to January 2, 1979

Florida Photographic Collection:

Collections at the State Archives of Florida:

Other Repositories:

  • Speeches, P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History, University of Florida.
  • Interview, Southern Oral History Program, University of North Carolina.
  • Interview, Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, University of Florida.

Published Materials:

  • Harvey, Gordon. A Question of Justice: New South Governors and Education, 1968-1976. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2002.
  • Sanders, Randy. Mighty Peculiar Elections: The New South Gubernatorial Campaigns of 1970 and the Changing Politics of Race. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.

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