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Mormon Politicians in Florida
(Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints;
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints;
Community of Christ)

Paula Hawkins (1927-2009) — also known as Paula Fickes; "The Battling Maitland Housewife" — of Maitland, Orange County, Fla. Born in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, January 24, 1927. Republican. Model; member of Republican National Committee from Florida, 1968-86; delegate to Republican National Convention from Florida, 1972; candidate for Presidential Elector for Florida; candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Florida, 1978; U.S. Senator from Florida, 1981-87; defeated, 1986. Female. Mormon. Inducted into the Florida Women's Hall of Fame, 2000. Died in Winter Park, Orange County, Fla., December 3, 2009 (age 82 years, 313 days). Interment at Palm Cemetery, Winter Park, Fla.   Relatives: Daughter of Paul Burt Fickes and Mary Leoan (Staley) Fickes; married 1955 to Walter Eugene Hawkins.   Campaign slogan: "Feminine, not feminist."   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial Reed Owen Smoot (1862-1941) — also known as Reed Smoot — of Provo, Utah County, Utah. Born in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, January 10, 1862. Republican. U.S. Senator from Utah, 1903-33; delegate to Republican National Convention from Utah, 1908, 1912, 1916 (speaker), 1920 (member, Resolutions Committee), 1924, 1928 (chair, Resolutions Committee; speaker), 1932; member of Republican National Committee from Utah, 1912-20. Mormon. Norwegian ancestry. Died in St. Petersburg, Pinellas County, Fla., February 9, 1941 (age 79 years, 30 days). Interment at Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah.   Relatives: Son of Abraham Owen Smoot (1815-1895) and Anna Kristina (Mauritzdatter) Smoot; half-brother of Abraham Owen Smoot (1856-1911); married, September 17, 1884, to Alpha May Eldredge; married, July 2, 1930, to Alice (Taylor) Sheets; half-uncle of Abraham Owen Smoot III and Isaac Albert Smoot; grandnephew of Daniel Owen Rowlett and Joseph Rowlett.   Political families: Bullock family of Massachusetts; Clinton-DeWitt family of New York; DeWitt-Bruyn-Hasbrouck-Kellogg family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: American Monthly Review of Reviews, December 1902

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