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How Florida Happened
Buddy Mackay
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Description for How Florida Happened
Hardback. When Florida governor Lawton Chiles died unexpectedly on December 12, 1998, less than one month before Jeb Bush was to assume the office, it was left to Chiles' lieutenant governor, Buddy MacKay, to step in for twenty-three days and run the state. This memoir of Kenneth 'Buddy' MacKay focuses on three decades of his public life in Florida. Series Editor(s): Colburn, David R.; MacManus, Susan. Series: Florida Government and Politics. Num Pages: 208 pages, 27 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; BM; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
When Florida governor Lawton Chiles died unexpectedly on December 12, 1998, less than one month before Jeb Bush was to assume the office, it was left to Chiles' lieutenant governor, Buddy MacKay, to step in for twenty-three days and run the state. 'I take no great pleasure in this', MacKay stated at his initial news conference, with good reason. Roughly one month prior, he had lost a brutal gubernatorial campaign as the Democratic nominee to Bush, meaning he now had to officiate over the investiture of a political opponent. This is Kenneth 'Buddy' MacKay's memoir of three decades of public ... Read more
When Florida governor Lawton Chiles died unexpectedly on December 12, 1998, less than one month before Jeb Bush was to assume the office, it was left to Chiles' lieutenant governor, Buddy MacKay, to step in for twenty-three days and run the state. 'I take no great pleasure in this', MacKay stated at his initial news conference, with good reason. Roughly one month prior, he had lost a brutal gubernatorial campaign as the Democratic nominee to Bush, meaning he now had to officiate over the investiture of a political opponent. This is Kenneth 'Buddy' MacKay's memoir of three decades of public ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Press of Florida United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Florida Government and Politics
Place of Publication
Florida, United States
ISBN
9780813034843
SKU
V9780813034843
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About Buddy Mackay
Buddy MacKay was born in 1933 in Ocala. He was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 1968, where he served for nearly a decade and won a number of awards as most effective legislator. From 1983 to 1989, he served three terms in the United States House of Representatives. MacKay received the Democratic nomination for the United States ... Read more
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