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Claude Roy Kirk Jr. (January 7, 1926 – September 28, 2011) was an American businessman and politician who served as the 36th governor of Florida from 1967 to 1971. A Republican for most his career, he was the first Republican governor of Florida since Reconstruction.
Claude R. Kirk Jr., who during his single, spectacularly colorful term as Florida’s governor from 1967 to 1971, hired a private police force, defied federal court orders and was a herald of a...
29 de sept. de 2011 · MIAMI — Claude R. Kirk Jr., who as a brash political neophyte became Florida’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction, then basked in publicity and courted confrontation in an eventful...
Claude Roy Kirk, Jr. Oil or acrylic on canvas, Ben Stahl, 1972. Born in San Bernardino, Calif., Claude Kirk's family also lived in Chicago, Ill., and Montgomery, Ala. After graduating from high school at age seventeen, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and rose to the rank of lieutenant.
In 1967, at the age of 41, he became the first Republican Governor of Florida since 1872. Having campaigned promising no new taxes, Governor Kirk pledged to run the state government like a business in order to help attract new business and industry to the state.
28 de sept. de 2011 · Claude R. Kirk Jr., the flamboyant Republican who broke the Democratic stranglehold on the Florida governor's mansion and helped reshape environmental policy in the state, died quietly at his...
Thirty-sixth governor. January 3, 1967 to January 5, 1971. Born in San Bernardino, Calif., Claude Kirk's family also lived in Chicago, Ill., and Montgomery, Ala. After graduating from high school at age seventeen, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and rose to the rank of lieutenant.
