Secretary of State Bruce Smathers speech files, 1974-1978.

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Secretary of State Bruce Smathers speech files, 1974-1978.

This series consists of a variety of speeches made by Secretary Smathers to different organizations and groups from 1974 to 1978. There is correspondence and background information included in some of the files.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7341410

Florida State Archive

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Smathers, Bruce A.

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Bruce A. Smathers represented the Ninth District (Jacksonville) in the Florida Senate from 1972 to 1974. He resigned to seek the office of Secretary of State, which he held from 1975 to 1978. As a State Senator, he served on three key committees: Ways and Means, Education, and Governmental Operations. Also named to the Special Conference Committee, Smathers helped restore the death penalty to the state's criminal laws in 1972. He was instrumental in reorganizing the state's educatio...

Florida. Dept. of State.

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Bruce Armistead Smathers was Florida's eighteenth Secretary of State. Smathers served from January 1975 to June 1978, at which time he resigned to run for Governor of the State of Florida. From July 1978 until January 1979, Jessie J. McCrary served out Smather's term of office. From the description of Secretary of State Bruce Smathers speech files, 1974-1978. (Florida State Archive). WorldCat record id: 32413839 ...