James Velma Keen papers, 1922-1967 (inclusive) (bulk 1955-1967).

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James Velma Keen papers, 1922-1967 (inclusive) (bulk 1955-1967).

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The papers of James Velma Keen document his campaigns for Sarasota Mayor and for Florida Representative from Sarasota County in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and his later activities in banking, law, and business. Materials include personal and professional correspondence related to his political activities and legal practice, speeches delivered at commencement programs, convocations and other occasions, photographs of his Florida campaign and nuclear development activities in Florida, scrapbooks documenting his personal and political career, and several memorabilia items. The additional materials, received and processed in 1971, pertain to the Florida Historical Society during the period that Keen was its First and Second Vice President (1954-1957 and include correspondence, minutes of board and annual meetings, financial materials and reports, and other administrative documents.

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Florida Historical Society

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The Florida Historical Society was established in 1902, incorporated in 1905. It was the successor to the Historical Society of Florida. In 1940 it absorbed the Florida State Historical Society founded in 1921. Julien Chandler Yonge was the editor of the Florida Historical Quarterly from 1925 to 1955. From the guide to the Florida Historical Society Records, 1923-1982, (Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida) Hi...

Pepper, Claude, 1900-1989

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Claude Denson Pepper (September 8, 1900 – May 30, 1989) was an American politician of the Democratic Party, and a spokesman for left-liberalism and the elderly. He represented Florida in the United States Senate from 1936 to 1951 and the Miami area in the United States House of Representatives from 1963 until 1989. Born in Chambers County, Alabama, Pepper established a legal practice in Perry, Florida after graduating from Harvard Law School. After serving a single term in the Florida House o...

Culpepper, J. Broward, 1907-

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Educator. Born in Perry, Florida; attended the University of Florida, Gainesville. Principal, P.K. Yonge Laboratory School, Gainesville, 1935-1938; supervising principal in Leesburg and Tallahassee, 1940-1944; Dean of Students, Florida State University, 1947-1954; Executive Director, Florida Board of Control/Chancellor, State University System of Florida, 1954-1968. From the guide to the J. Broward Culpepper Papers, 1941-1968, (Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers...

Keen, James Velma.

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James Velma Keen was born in Dublin, Georgia on August 23, 1899. Before graduating from the University of Florida, where he received the LL. B (1922) and A.B. (1923) degrees, James Velma Keen attended the Georgia School of Technology, Oglethorpe University, and the University of Pittsburgh. He was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1923 and began his law practice in Sarasota, principally with the firm of Sawyer, Surrency, Carter, and Keen, which Keen operated from 1922-1932. During his residence in ...