Selected officials of Leon County

(not intended to be complete)

Fred H. Davis (Prosecuting Attorney, 1919-20)

Politicians who were born in Leon County

• No city given: William D. Bloxham 1835 Charles B. Parkhill 1859
• Tallahassee: William A. B. Branch 1847 LeRoy Collins 1909 Carrie P. Meek 1926 Alfred J. Lawson, Jr. 1948 Cynthia Moore Chestnut 1949
• See also Fla. birthplaces not assigned to counties.

Politicians who lived in Leon County

• No city given: Thomas Brown - David P. Hogue - George T. Maxwell - Samuel Parkhill - Leigh Read - John Taylor - Junius L. Taylor - Leslie A. Thompson - Marjorie R. Turnbull - George T. Ward - William Wyatt
• Tallahassee:
  • Lived in Tallahassee, 1800-1849: Thomas Baltzell - William H. Brockenbrough - James E. Broome - Edward C. Cabell - James D. Westcott, Jr.
  • Lived in Tallahassee, 1850-1899: James E. Broome - Simon Barclay Conover - C. E. Dycke - Thomas Ward Osborn
  • Lived in Tallahassee, 1900-1949: Alto Adams - Mrs. W. F. Allen - William P. Allen - Mrs. Walter Price Bevis - Mildred Cone - Ray H. Daley - Fred H. Davis - A. R. Edwards - Colin English - R. A. Gray - Kate B. Inman - Isaac Jenkins - John B. Johnson - R. E. Kestner - Claude Pepper - E. A. Pottsdamer - H. A. Rossing - Norman S. Stone, Jr. - C. B. Treadway - H. J. Yaeger - Tom A. Yon
  • Lived in Tallahassee, 1950-1999: Myrt Bevis - A. R. Brautigam - Millard F. Caldwell, Jr. - William H. Cates - Richard W. Ervin - Bob Graham - R. A. Gray - Dorothy Hunnicutt - Virginia B. Krause - J. Edwin Larson - Scott Maddox - William T. Mayo - Jon C. Moyle - Richard Stone - L. M. 'Roy' Strickland, Jr. - Jesse Warren
  • Lived in Tallahassee, 2000-2008: Donna H. Ausman - Jon Ausman - Lance Block - Charlie Crist - Pamela Burch Fort - Tom Gallagher - Andrew Gillum - Cynthia Hall - Toni Jennings - Allan Katz - Scott Maddox - Pam Olsen - Russell Price - Linda Roberts - Frank W. Williams - Robert Williams - Jeff Wright
• See also Fla. areas not assigned to counties.

Politicians who died in Leon County

• No city given: Robert R. Reid 1841
• Tallahassee: Augustus B. Woodward 1827 Augustus A. Alston 1839 Sampson Hale Butler 1848 William H. Brockenbrough 1850 Richard K. Call 1862 Thomas Baltzell 1866 Thomas Brown 1867 David S. Walker 1891 Robert Benjamin Hilton 1894 Daniel Thomas McCarty 1953 Lloyd C. Griscom 1959 Tom A. Yon 1971 R. A. Gray 1975 Gwen Cherry 1979 Millard F. Caldwell, Jr. 1984 LeRoy Collins 1991 Lawton Chiles 1998 Edward J. Healey 2000 Stephen C. O'Connell 2001 Dorothy W. Glisson 2001 Joseph A. Boyd, Jr. 2007
• See also Fla. deathplaces not assigned to counties.

Cemeteries and Memorial Sites of Politicians in Leon County

• Harwood Plantation Cemetery
• Private or family graveyards
• Tallahassee Unknown location
• Tallahassee City Cemetery
• Tallahassee Episcopal Cemetery
• Tallahassee MeadowWood Memorial Park
• Tallahassee Negro Cemetery
• Tallahassee Oakland Cemetery
• Tallahassee Old City Cemetery
• Tallahassee Old St. John's Episcopal Cemetery
• Tallahassee Roselawn Cemetery
• Tallahassee St. John's Episcopal Cemetery

Politicians buried here:

• Robert Raymond Reid (1789-1841) — also known as Robert R. Reid — of Augusta, Richmond County, Ga.; St. Johns County, Fla. Born in Beaufort County, S.C., September 8, 1789. Democrat. State court judge in Georgia, 1816-19, 1827-32; U.S. Representative from Georgia at-large, 1819-23; circuit judge in Georgia, 1823-25; justice of Florida territorial supreme court, 1832-39; delegate to Florida state constitutional convention from St. Johns County, 1838-39; Governor of Florida Territory, 1839-41. Unitarian. Died of yellow fever. at Blackwood Plantation (now called Harwood Plantation), Leon County, Fla., July 1, 1841. Interment at Harwood Plantation Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• Millard Fillmore Caldwell, Jr. (1897-1984) — also known as Millard F. Caldwell, Jr. — of Milton, Santa Rosa County, Fla.; Tallahassee, Leon County, Fla. Born in Knoxville, Knox County, Tenn., February 6, 1897. Son of Millard Fillmore Caldwell and Martha Jane (Clapp) Caldwell; married, February 14, 1925, to Mary Rebecca Harwood. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; member of Florida state house of representatives, 1929-32; U.S. Representative from Florida 3rd District, 1933-41; Governor of Florida, 1945-49; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, 1948; justice of Florida state supreme court, 1962-69. Protestant. Member, American Judicature Society; American Legion; Freemasons; Shriners; Blue Key; Elks; Knights of Pythias; Newcomen Society; Alpha Kappa Psi; Kappa Sigma; Phi Alpha Delta. Died in Tallahassee, Leon County, Fla., October 23, 1984. Interment at Harwood Plantation Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography; National Governors Association biography.
  
  

Politicians buried here:

• Lawton Mainor Chiles, Jr. (1930-1998) — also known as Lawton Chiles; "Walkin' Lawton" — of Lakeland, Polk County, Fla. Born in Lakeland, Polk County, Fla., April 3, 1930. Democrat. Member of Florida state house of representatives, 1959-67; member of Florida state senate, 1967-71; U.S. Senator from Florida, 1971-89; Governor of Florida, 1991-98; died in office 1998. Presbyterian. Member, Alpha Tau Omega. Died, of a heart condition, in the Governor's Mansion, Tallahassee, Leon County, Fla., December 12, 1998. Original interment and cenotaph at Roselawn Cemetery, Tallahassee, Fla.; reinterment at at a private or family graveyard.
  • See also: congressional biography; National Governors Association biography.
  
  
• Richard Keith Call (1792-1862) — also known as Richard K. Call — of Florida. Born near Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Va., October 24, 1792. Uncle of Wilkinson Call; great-grandfather of Mary Call Darby (who married Thomas LeRoy Collins). Whig. Delegate to U.S. Congress from Florida Territory, 1823; U.S. Special Diplomatic Agent to Cuba, 1829-30; Governor of Florida Territory, 1836-39, 1841-44; candidate for Governor of Florida, 1845. Episcopalian. Died in Tallahassee, Leon County, Fla., September 14, 1862. Interment at at a private or family graveyard.
  • See also Walker-Call family
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• Thomas LeRoy Collins (1909-1991) — also known as LeRoy Collins — of Florida. Born in Tallahassee, Leon County, Fla., March 10, 1909. Son of Marvin H. Collins and Mattie (Brandon) Collins; married, June 29, 1932, to Mary Call Darby (great-granddaughter of Richard Keith Call). Democrat. Lawyer; member of Florida state house of representatives, 1934-40; member of Florida state senate 8th District, 1940-54; served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; Governor of Florida, 1955-61; candidate for U.S. Senator from Florida, 1968. Episcopalian. Member, American Bar Association. Died of cancer, in Tallahassee, Leon County, Fla., March 12, 1991. Interment at at a private or family graveyard.
  • See also Walker-Call family
  • See also: National Governors Association biography.
  • Books about Leroy Collins: Tom Wagy, Governor Leroy Collins of Florida : Spokesman of the New South (out of print)
  
  

Politicians buried here:

• B. K. Roberts (1907-1999) — of Florida. Born in Sopchoppy, Wakulla County, Fla., 1907. Lawyer; justice of Florida state supreme court, 1949-76. Died in 1999. Interment somewhere.
  
  
• Sampson Hale Butler (1803-1848) — of South Carolina. Born near Ninety Six, Edgefield District (now Greenwood County), S.C., January 3, 1803. Democrat. Member of South Carolina state house of representatives, 1836; U.S. Representative from South Carolina 1st District, 1839-42. Died in Tallahassee, Leon County, Fla., March 16, 1848. Interment somewhere.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  

Politicians buried here:

• James Diament Westcott, Jr. (1802-1880) — also known as James D. Westcott, Jr. — of Tallahassee, Leon County, Fla. Born in Alexandria, Va., May 10, 1802. Father of James D. Westcott. Democrat. Lawyer; secretary of Florida Territory, 1830-34; member of Florida territorial House of Representatives, 1832; delegate to Florida state constitutional convention from Leon County, 1838-39; U.S. Senator from Florida, 1845-49. About 1832, he was wounded in a duel with Thomas Baltzell. Died in Montreal, Quebec, January 19, 1880. Interment at City Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  

Politicians buried here:

• Waddy Thompson, Jr. (1798-1868) — of South Carolina. Born in Pickens, Pickens County, S.C., January 8, 1798. Member of South Carolina state house of representatives, 1826; U.S. Representative from South Carolina 9th District, 1835-41; U.S. Minister to Mexico, 1842-44. Died November 23, 1868. Interment at Episcopal Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• William Henry Brockenbrough (1812-1850) — also known as William H. Brockenbrough — of Tallahassee, Leon County, Fla. Born in Virginia, February 23, 1812. Nephew of William Brockenbrough; first cousin of John White Brockenbrough. Democrat. Lawyer; member of Florida state house of representatives, 1837; U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Florida, 1838-40; member of Florida state senate, 1840-44; U.S. Representative from Florida at-large, 1846-47. Died in Tallahassee, Leon County, Fla., January 28, 1850. Interment at Episcopal Cemetery.
  • See also Livingston-Lee-Clay-Williams family
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  

Politicians buried here:

• Joseph A. Boyd, Jr. (c.1917-2007) — of Florida. Married to Ann Stripling. Justice of Florida state supreme court, 1969-87. Died, of heart failure, in Tallahassee, Leon County, Fla., October 26, 2007. Interment at MeadowWood Memorial Park.
  
  

Politicians buried here:

• Josiah Thomas Walls (1842-1905) — of Florida. Born in Virginia, 1842. Republican. Member of Florida state legislature; U.S. Representative from Florida, 1871-73, 1873-76 (at-large 1871-73, 1873-75, 2nd District 1875-76). Black. Died in 1905. Interment at Negro Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  

Politicians buried here:

• Claude Denson Pepper (1900-1989) — also known as Claude Pepper — of Tallahassee, Leon County, Fla.; Miami, Miami-Dade County, Fla. Born near Dudleyville, Chambers County, Ala., September 8, 1900. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer; member of Florida state house of representatives, 1929-30; U.S. Senator from Florida, 1936-51; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Florida, 1940 (alternate), 1944 (alternate), 1948 (alternate), 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968; U.S. Representative from Florida, 1963-89 (3rd District 1963-67, 11th District 1967-73, 14th District 1973-83, 18th District 1983-89); died in office 1989. Baptist. Member, American Bar Association; United World Federalists; American Legion; Forty and Eight; Freemasons; Shriners; Elks; Kiwanis; Moose; Woodmen; Kappa Alpha Order; Omicron Delta Kappa; Phi Alpha Delta; Phi Beta Kappa. Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1989. Died May 30, 1989. Interment at Oakland Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  • Books about Claude Pepper: Tracy E. Danese, Claude Pepper and Ed Ball : Politics, Purpose, and Power
  
  
• Thomas Alva Yon (1882-1971) — also known as Tom A. Yon — of Tallahassee, Leon County, Fla. Born near Blountstown, Calhoun County, Fla., March 14, 1882. Democrat. U.S. Representative from Florida 3rd District, 1927-33. Died in Tallahassee, Leon County, Fla., February 16, 1971. Interment at Oakland Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  

Politicians buried here:

• Thomas Brown (1785-1867) — of Leon County, Fla. Born in Westmoreland County, Va., October 24, 1785. Whig. Delegate to Florida state constitutional convention from Leon County, 1838-39; Governor of Florida, 1849-53. Died in Tallahassee, Leon County, Fla., August 24, 1867. Interment at Old City Cemetery.
  • See also: National Governors Association biography.
  
  

Politicians buried here:

• Alfred Moore Gatlin (1790-1841) — of North Carolina. Born in Edenton, Chowan County, N.C., April 20, 1790. U.S. Representative from North Carolina 1st District, 1823-25. Died February 23, 1841. Interment at Old St. John's Episcopal Cemetery.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  

Politicians buried here:

• Dorothy W. Glisson (c.1914-2001) — of Florida. Secretary of state of Florida, 1974-75. Female. Methodist. Member, Altrusa. Died in Tallahassee, Leon County, Fla., April 10, 2001. Interment at Roselawn Cemetery.
  
  

Politicians formerly buried here:

• Lawton Mainor Chiles, Jr. (1930-1998) — also known as Lawton Chiles; "Walkin' Lawton" — of Lakeland, Polk County, Fla. Born in Lakeland, Polk County, Fla., April 3, 1930. Democrat. Member of Florida state house of representatives, 1959-67; member of Florida state senate, 1967-71; U.S. Senator from Florida, 1971-89; Governor of Florida, 1991-98; died in office 1998. Presbyterian. Member, Alpha Tau Omega. Died, of a heart condition, in the Governor's Mansion, Tallahassee, Leon County, Fla., December 12, 1998. Original interment and cenotaph at Roselawn Cemetery; reinterment at a private or family graveyard, Leon County, Fla.
  • See also: congressional biography; National Governors Association biography.
  
  

Politicians buried here:

• David Shelby Walker (1815-1891) — also known as David S. Walker — of Florida. Born in Kentucky, May 2, 1815. Married to Philoclea Alston (niece of Willis Alston; sister of Augustus A. Alston). Justice of Florida state supreme court, 1860-65; Governor of Florida, 1865-68; defeated (American), 1856. Died in Tallahassee, Leon County, Fla., July 20, 1891. Interment at St. John's Episcopal Cemetery.
  • See also Alston-Kenan-Howard-Hawkins family of North Carolina
  • See also: National Governors Association biography.
  
  
• Robert Benjamin Hilton (1821-1894) — of Florida. Born in Virginia, 1821. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Representative from Florida in the Confederate Congress, 1862-65; state court judge in Florida, 1867. Died in Tallahassee, Leon County, Fla., January 10, 1894. Interment at St. John's Episcopal Cemetery.
  
  

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