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Spessard Holland

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Spessard Lindsey Holland (July 10, 1892 – November 6, 1971) was an American lawyer and politician. [1]

105 relations: Adjutant, Air gunner, Albert Gore Sr., Alpha Tau Omega, American football, American Legion, Attack on Pearl Harbor, Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, Bachelor of Laws, Bartow High School, Bartow, Florida, Baseball, Basketball, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Brigade, Brown v. Board of Education, Captain (armed forces), Captain (United States O-3), Charles O. Andrews, Cigarette, Claude Pepper, Claude R. Kirk Jr., Confederate States of America, Connie Mack, Connie Mack III, Conservative coalition, Constitution of Florida, Constitutional amendment, Democratic Party (United States), Denver, Distinguished Service Cross (United States), Edward Gurney, Elections in the United States, Emory University, Environmentalism, Estes Kefauver, Everglades, Everglades National Park, Federal government of the United States, Florida, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Florida Legislature, Florida Senate, Florida Southern College, Florida State Road 408, Florida State University, Fred P. Cone, Fredric G. Levin College of Law, Freemasonry, Fuel tax, ..., G. Harrold Carswell, George Smathers, Highway, History of the Philadelphia Athletics, Holland & Knight, Honorary degree, John J. Pershing, Judge Advocate General's Corps, Kiwanis, Latin honors, Lawton Chiles, List of Governors of Florida, Lyndon B. Johnson, Melbourne Beach, Florida, Methodism, Millard Caldwell, Myocardial infarction, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, Polk County, Florida, Poll taxes in the United States, Ratification, Reconnaissance, Rhodes Scholarship, Richard Nixon, Rollins College, Ronald Reagan, Sales tax, Satellite Beach, Florida, Scottish Rite, Second lieutenant, Secondary school, Shriners, Sons of the American Revolution, Southern Manifesto, Spiro Agnew, Stetson University College of Law, Supreme Court of the United States, Tallahassee Democrat, Taxation in the United States, Track and field, Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, U.S. Route 17 in Florida, United States Army Air Corps, United States Senate, University of Florida, University of Miami, University of Tampa, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Warrenton, Georgia, Wildwood Cemetery, William C. Cramer, 1940 Democratic National Convention, 24th Aero Squadron, 87th United States Congress. Expand index (55 more) »

Adjutant

Adjutant is a military appointment given to an officer who assists the commanding officer with unit administration.

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Air gunner

An air gunner also known as aerial gunner is a member of an air force aircrew who operates flexible-mount or turret-mounted machine guns or autocannons in an aircraft.

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Albert Gore Sr.

Albert Arnold Gore Sr. (December 26, 1907 – December 5, 1998), known simply as Al Gore before the fame of his son, was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative and a U.S. Senator for the Democratic Party from Tennessee.

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Alpha Tau Omega

Alpha Tau Omega (ΑΤΩ), commonly known as ATO, is an American social fraternity founded at the Virginia Military Institute in 1865.

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American football

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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American Legion

The American Legion is a U.S. war veterans organization headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Attack on Pearl Harbor

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941.

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Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps

The Aviation Section, Signal Corps, was the aerial warfare service of the United States from 1914 to 1918, and a direct statutory ancestor of the United States Air Force.

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Bachelor of Laws

The Bachelor of Laws (Legum Baccalaureus; LL.B. or B.L.) is an undergraduate degree in law (or a first professional degree in law, depending on jurisdiction) originating in England and offered in Japan and most common law jurisdictionsexcept the United States and Canadaas the degree which allows a person to become a lawyer.

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Bartow High School

Bartow Senior High School, formerly Summerlin Institute and Union Academy is the only high school located in Bartow, Florida.

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Bartow, Florida

Bartow is the county seat of Polk County, Florida, United States.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and fielding.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport played on a rectangular court.

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Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks

The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE; also often known as the Elks Lodge or simply The Elks) is an American fraternal order founded in 1868 originally as a social club in New York City.

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Brigade

A brigade is a major tactical military formation that is typically composed of three to six battalions plus supporting elements.

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Brown v. Board of Education

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

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Captain (armed forces)

The army rank of captain (from the French capitaine) is a commissioned officer rank historically corresponding to the command of a company of soldiers.

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Captain (United States O-3)

In the United States Army (USA), U.S. Marine Corps (USMC), and U.S. Air Force (USAF), captain (abbreviated "CPT" in the USA and "Capt" in the USMC and USAF) is a company grade officer rank, with the pay grade of O-3.

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Charles O. Andrews

Charles Oscar Andrews (March 7, 1877September 18, 1946) was a Democratic Party politician from Florida, who represented Florida in the United States Senate from 1936 until 1946.

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Cigarette

A cigarette is a narrow cylinder containing tobacco that is rolled into thin paper for smoking.

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Claude Pepper

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.

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Claude R. Kirk Jr.

Claude Roy Kirk Jr. (January 7, 1926 – September 28, 2011), was the 36th Governor of the U.S. state of Florida (1967–1971).

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Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America (CSA or C.S.), commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was an unrecognized country in North America that existed from 1861 to 1865.

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Connie Mack

Cornelius McGillicuddy (December 22, 1862 – February 8, 1956), better known as Connie Mack, was an American professional baseball player, manager, and team owner.

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Connie Mack III

Cornelius Alexander McGillicuddy III (born October 29, 1940), popularly known as Connie Mack III, is an American former Republican politician.

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Conservative coalition

The conservative coalition was an unofficial Congressional coalition bringing together a conservative majority of the Republican Party and the conservative, mostly Southern, wing of the Democratic Party.

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Constitution of Florida

The Constitution of the State of Florida is the document that establishes and describes the duties, powers, structure and function of the government of the U.S. state of Florida, and establishes the basic law of the state.

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Constitutional amendment

A constitutional amendment is a modification of the constitution of a nation or state.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Denver

Denver, officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Distinguished Service Cross (United States)

The Distinguished Service Cross is the second highest military award that can be given to a member of the United States Army (and previously the United States Air Force), for extreme gallantry and risk of life in actual combat with an armed enemy force.

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Edward Gurney

Edward John Gurney (January 12, 1914 – May 14, 1996) was an attorney and an American politician based in Florida, where he served as a Representative and a United States Senator.

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Elections in the United States

Elections in the United States are held for government officials at the federal, state, and local levels.

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Emory University

Emory University is a private research university in the Druid Hills neighborhood of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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Environmentalism

Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the impact of changes to the environment on humans, animals, plants and non-living matter.

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Estes Kefauver

Carey Estes Kefauver (July 26, 1903 – August 10, 1963) was an American politician from Tennessee.

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Everglades

The Everglades is a natural region of tropical wetlands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large drainage basin and part of the neotropic ecozone.

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Everglades National Park

Everglades National Park is an American national park that protects the southern 20 percent of the original Everglades in Florida.

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Federal government of the United States

The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government) is the national government of the United States, a constitutional republic in North America, composed of 50 states, one district, Washington, D.C. (the nation's capital), and several territories.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is a Florida government agency founded in 1999 and headquartered in Tallahassee.

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Florida Legislature

The Florida Legislature is the Legislature of the U.S. State of Florida.

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Florida Senate

The Florida Senate is the upper house of the Legislature of the U.S. State of Florida.

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Florida Southern College

Florida Southern College (Florida Southern, Southern or FSC) is a private college in Lakeland, Florida.

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Florida State Road 408

State Road 408 (SR 408), also known as the Spessard L. Holland East–West Expressway or the Spessard L. Holland East-West Tollway, is a tolled expressway running east–west through Orlando, Florida, United States.

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Florida State University

Florida State University (Florida State or FSU) is a public space-grant and sea-grant research university with its primary campus on a campus in Tallahassee, Florida.

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Fred P. Cone

Frederick Preston Cone (September 28, 1871 – July 28, 1948) was an American politician who served as the 27th Governor of Florida.

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Fredric G. Levin College of Law

The Fredric G. Levin College of Law is the law school of the University of Florida located in Gainesville, Florida.

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Freemasonry

Freemasonry or Masonry consists of fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.

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Fuel tax

A fuel tax (also known as a petrol, gasoline or gas tax, or as a fuel duty) is an excise tax imposed on the sale of fuel.

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G. Harrold Carswell

George Harrold Carswell (December 22, 1919 – July 13, 1992) was a federal judge and an unsuccessful nominee to the United States Supreme Court.

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George Smathers

George Armistead Smathers (November 14, 1913 – January 20, 2007) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the state of Florida in the United States Senate for eighteen years, from 1951 until 1969, as a member of the Democratic Party.

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Highway

A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land.

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History of the Philadelphia Athletics

The Oakland Athletics, a current Major League Baseball franchise, originated in Philadelphia.

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Holland & Knight

Holland & Knight LLP is an international law firm with more than 1,200 lawyers and other professionals in 27 offices throughout the world.

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Honorary degree

An honorary degree, in Latin a degree honoris causa ("for the sake of the honor") or ad honorem ("to the honor"), is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived the usual requirements, such as matriculation, residence, a dissertation and the passing of comprehensive examinations.

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John J. Pershing

General of the Armies John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing (September 13, 1860 – July 15, 1948) was a senior United States Army officer.

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Judge Advocate General's Corps

The Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG Corps) is the branch or specialty of a military concerned with military justice and military law.

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Kiwanis

Kiwanis International is an international service club founded in 1915 in Detroit, Michigan.

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Latin honors

Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of distinction with which an academic degree has been earned.

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Lawton Chiles

Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr. (April 3, 1930 – December 12, 1998) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida.

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List of Governors of Florida

The Governor of Florida is the head of the executive branch of Florida's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after having served as the 37th Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963.

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Melbourne Beach, Florida

Melbourne Beach is a town in Brevard County, Florida.

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Methodism

Methodism or the Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley, an Anglican minister in England.

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Millard Caldwell

Millard Fillmore Caldwell (February 6, 1897 – October 23, 1984) was an American politician.

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Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to a part of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle.

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Phi Beta Kappa

The Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ) is the oldest academic honor society in the United States.

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Phi Delta Phi

Phi Delta Phi (ΦΔΦ) is an international legal honor society and the oldest legal organization in continuous existence in the United States.

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Polk County, Florida

Polk County is located in the U.S. state of Florida.

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Poll taxes in the United States

A poll tax is a tax levied as a fixed sum on every liable individual.

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Ratification

Ratification is a principal's approval of an act of its agent that lacked the authority to bind the principal legally.

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Reconnaissance

In military operations, reconnaissance or scouting is the exploration outside an area occupied by friendly forces to gain information about natural features and other activities in the area.

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Rhodes Scholarship

The Rhodes Scholarship, named after the Anglo-South African mining magnate and politician Cecil John Rhodes, is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.

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Rollins College

Rollins College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college, founded in 1885 and located in Winter Park, Florida along the shores of Lake Virginia.

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Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

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Sales tax

A sales tax is a tax paid to a governing body for the sales of certain goods and services.

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Satellite Beach, Florida

Satellite Beach is a coastal city situated in Brevard County, Florida.

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Scottish Rite

The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction in the United States often omits the and, while the English Constitution in the United Kingdom omits the Scottish), commonly known as simply the Scottish Rite (or, in England and Australia, as the Rose Croix although this is only one of its degrees), is one of several Rites of Freemasonry.

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Second lieutenant

Second lieutenant (called lieutenant in some countries) is a junior commissioned officer military rank in many armed forces, comparable to NATO OF-1b rank.

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Secondary school

A secondary school is both an organization that provides secondary education and the building where this takes place.

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Shriners

Shriners International, also commonly known as The Shriners, is a society established in 1870 and is headquartered in Tampa, Florida, USA.

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Sons of the American Revolution

The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR or NSSAR) is an American congressionally chartered organization, founded in 1889, and headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Southern Manifesto

The Declaration of Constitutional Principles (known informally as the Southern Manifesto) was a document written in February and March 1956, in the United States Congress, in opposition to racial integration of public places.

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Spiro Agnew

Spiro Theodore "Ted" Agnew (November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was the 39th Vice President of the United States, serving from 1969 to his resignation in 1973.

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Stetson University College of Law

Stetson University College of Law, founded in 1900 and part of Stetson University, is Florida's first law school.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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Tallahassee Democrat

The Tallahassee Democrat is a daily broadsheet newspaper.

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Taxation in the United States

The United States of America has separate federal, state, and local government(s) with taxes imposed at each of these levels.

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Track and field

Track and field is a sport which includes athletic contests established on the skills of running, jumping, and throwing.

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Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.

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U.S. Route 17 in Florida

U.S. Route 17 (US 17) in Florida is a north–south United States Highway.

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United States Army Air Corps

The United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was the aerial warfare service of the United States of America between 1926 and 1941.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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University of Florida

The University of Florida (commonly referred to as Florida or UF) is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university on a campus in Gainesville, Florida.

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University of Miami

The University of Miami (informally referred to as UM, U of M, or The U) is a private, nonsectarian research university in Coral Gables, Florida, United States.

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University of Tampa

The University of Tampa (UT) is a private co-educational university in Downtown Tampa, Florida, United States.

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Veterans of Foreign Wars

The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW, or simply Veterans of Foreign Wars) is an American war veterans organization headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Warrenton, Georgia

Warrenton is a city in Warren County, Georgia, United States.

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Wildwood Cemetery

Wildwood Cemetery is a historic cemetery at Palmer and Wildwood Streets in Winchester, Massachusetts.

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William C. Cramer

William Cato "Bill" Cramer Sr. (August 4, 1922 – October 18, 2003), was an American attorney and Republican politician, elected in 1954 as a member of the United States House of Representatives from St. Petersburg, Florida.

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1940 Democratic National Convention

The 1940 Democratic National Convention was held at the Chicago Stadium in Chicago, Illinois from July 15 to July 18, 1940.

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24th Aero Squadron

The 24th Aero Squadron was a Air Service, United States Army unit that fought on the Western Front during World War I. The squadron was assigned as an Army Observation Squadron, performing long-range, strategic reconnaissance over the entire length of the United States First Army sector of the Western Front in France.

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87th United States Congress

The Eighty-seventh United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.

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References

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