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Bruce Armistead Smathers (born October 3, 1943) is a retired Democratic politician from Florida. He served as the 18th Secretary of State of Florida from 1975 to 1978.
Smathers lived in Indian Creek Island and was father to two sons, John (born 1941) and Bruce Smathers (born 1943) (Florida State Senate 1973-75 and Secretary of State 1975–78) from his marriage to Rosemary Townley.
20 de sept. de 2009 · Rep. George A. Smathers is in a nip-and-tuck fight there to take the U.S. Senate seat away from Claude Pepper. Opponents of Pepper have started a whispering campaign against him. “Senator Pepper,” they confide, “is not only an extrovert, but he also practices nepotism.”
21 de dic. de 2021 · In our continuing look back at the life and career of former US Senator George Smathers, we're privileged this week to be joined by his son, former Florida Secretary of State Bruce Smathers. We discuss Senator Smathers election to the US House in 1946, the famous US Senate race in 1950 and some of the….
politician secretary. Bruce Armistead Smathers was a member of the Florida State Senate and then was elected to and served as Secretary of State of Florida from 1975 - 1978.
His second son, Bruce, was born in 1943 while Smathers was overseas. In 1946, Smathers was elected to the first of two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, defeating long-standing incumbent Pat Cannon.
Bruce Smathers served as senator from the 9th district 1972, 1973, 1974 and served as Secretary of State 1975 to July 1978. Reubin Askew served in the Florida State Senate representing the 2nd District from 1962 until the 1970 term.
