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Hans Gearhart Tanzler Jr. (b. 1927) —
also known as Hans Tanzler —
of Jacksonville, Duval
County, Fla.
Born in Charlotte, Mecklenburg
County, N.C., March
11, 1927.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
judge of criminal court in Florida, 1963-67; mayor
of Jacksonville, Fla., 1967-79; candidate for Governor of
Florida, 1978.
Member, Jaycees;
Kappa
Alpha Order; Blue
Key; Freemasons;
Shriners;
Moose;
Elks.
Still living as of 1979.
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Arthur E. Teele (1946-2005) —
also known as Art Teele —
of Florida.
Born in Prince
George's County, Md., May 14,
1946.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war;
lawyer; director, U.S. Urban Mass Transportation
Administration, 1981-83; Republican Presidential Elector for Florida,
1992;
as Miami city commissioner in 1997-2004, he chaired the Community
Redevelopment Agency (CRA); an investigation
of corruption in the agency, started in 2003, led to charges
that he had accepted $135,000 in kickbacks
from two construction companies; as a result, he was removed from
office in 2004 by Gov. Jeb
Bush; in August, 2004, when he and his wife were under
surveillance, he drove his
car at a police detective in an attempt to run him
over, and also threatened
to kill police officers who had been following his wife during
the investigation; convicted
in March 2005 on charges
related to this incident; indicted
on July 14, 2005, on federal conspiracy and money
laundering charges, over a scheme to fraudulently obtain
contracts for electrical work at the Miami International Airport
through a "minority-owned" shell company; published police reports
revealed that he had put his mistress
on the CRA payroll, that he regularly bought and used cocaine,
and that he frequently made use of a male prostitute.
Church
of God in Christ. African
ancestry. Member, Kappa
Alpha Psi; NAACP; Freemasons.
Came to the offices
of the Miami Herald newspaper, and shot himself
in the head with a semiautomatic pistol; he died two hours later in
the trauma unit of Jackson Memorial Hospital,
Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., July 27,
2005 (age 59 years, 74
days).
Interment at Culley's MeadowWood Memorial Park, Tallahassee, Fla.
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Leslie A. Thompson (1806-1874) —
of Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., October
8, 1806.
Lawyer; mayor
of Tallahassee, Fla., 1830, 1832-33, 1840; delegate
to Florida state constitutional convention from Leon County,
1838-39; justice of
Florida state supreme court, 1851-53.
Died in Galveston, Galveston
County, Tex., January
23, 1874 (age 67 years, 107
days).
Burial location unknown.
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John Thrasher (b. 1943) —
of Florida.
Born in Columbia, Richland
County, S.C., December
18, 1943.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war;
lawyer; member of Florida
state house of representatives 19th District, 1993-; Speaker of
the Florida State House of Representatives, 1999; Republican
Presidential Elector for Florida, 2000
(voted for George
W. Bush and Richard
B. Cheney); Republican Presidential Elector for Florida, 2004
(voted for George
W. Bush and Richard
B. Cheney); Republican candidate for Presidential Elector for
Florida, 2012
(on behalf of Mitt
Romney and Paul
Ryan).
Presbyterian.
Member, Rotary.
Still living as of 2012.
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Clayton C. Townes (1888-1970) —
of Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, January
30, 1888.
Republican. Lawyer; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Ohio, 1920,
1924;
mayor
of Cleveland, Ohio, 1924-25.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias.
Died in Florida, February
24, 1970 (age 82 years, 25
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William C. Townes and Kate (Hoyt) Townes; married 1917 to Grace
Dix. |
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Park Trammell (1876-1936) —
of Lakeland, Polk
County, Fla.
Born in Macon
County, Ala., April 9,
1876.
Democrat. Lawyer; newspaper
publisher; mayor
of Lakeland, Fla., 1900-02; member of Florida
state house of representatives, 1903-04; member of Florida
state senate 7th District, 1905-09; Florida
state attorney general, 1909-13; Governor of
Florida, 1913-17; U.S.
Senator from Florida, 1917-36; died in office 1936.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Woodmen.
Died May 8,
1936 (age 60 years, 29
days).
Interment at Roselawn
Cemetery, Lakeland, Fla.
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Edwin John Turanchik (born c.1956) —
also known as Ed Turanchik;
"Choo-Choo" —
of East Lansing, Ingham
County, Mich.; Tampa, Hillsborough
County, Fla.
Born about 1956.
Anderson Coalition candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan,
1980
(on behalf of John
B. Anderson and Patrick
J. Lucey); lawyer; real estate
developer; Hillsborough
County Commissioner, 1990-2000; candidate for mayor of
Tampa, Fla., 2011.
Catholic.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Sierra
Club.
Still living as of 2011.
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Relatives: Son
of John Turanchik; married 1992 to Jenny
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Alfred Tweedy (1880-1967) —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Noroton, Darien, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Clearwater, Pinellas
County, Fla.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., February
24, 1880.
Republican. Lawyer; probate judge in Connecticut, 1930; member
of Connecticut
state senate 26th District, 1945-46.
Died in November, 1967
(age 87
years, 0 days).
Burial location unknown.
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Michelle Rehwinkel Vasilinda (b. 1960) —
of Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla.
Born in Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y., July 9,
1960.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Florida
state house of representatives 9th District, 2008-16; candidate
in primary for mayor
of Tallahassee, Fla., 2018.
Female.
Still living as of 2018.
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J. Alex Villalobos (b. 1963) —
of Miami-Dade
County, Fla.
Born in Miami, Miami-Dade
County, Fla., November
2, 1963.
Republican. Lawyer; member of Florida
state house of representatives 112th District, 1993-.
Catholic.
Hispanic
ancestry.
Still living as of 1999.
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