Robert Broadnax Glenn (1854–1920), the Democratic governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1905 to 1909
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Horace Broadnax, the head men's basketball coach at Savannah State University
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Willmer "Little Ax" Broadnax, (1916–1994), African-American hard gospel quartet singer
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Walter Broadnax, Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University
Broadnax became a member of the Florida Bar in 1993 after obtaining his law degree from Florida State University College of Law in Tallahassee, Florida in 1991 and was a law partner at an Orlando law firm.
Born October 21, 1944, in Star City, Arkansas, to a railroad man named Walter Broadnax and mother Mary Lee Broadnax, Broadnax attended Roosevelt Elementary School in Hoisington, Kansas.