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Listen: The Folk ProgramJim Fair in Tallahassee, Florida.
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Jim Fair of Tallahassee was born James Searcy Farrior on December 19, 1917 to a prominent Tampa family. Jim owned an elaborate used variety store in downtown Tampa and advertised as the "Poor Man's Friend." He ran for various government offices and finally won as Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections. He took off all the dead voters who kept re-electing the 'courthouse gang' and registered all comers. An Annapolis graduate who was in many Naval engagements including suffering kamikaze attacks at Okinawa. He died of leukemia on June 2, 1991.
From 1963 to 1992, photographer Donn Dughi worked for a number of media outlets in Tallahassee, including WCTV, the United Press International (UPI), and the Associated Press. From 1992 until his retirement in 2001, Dughi was a photographer for the Florida House of Representatives.
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