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2 unusual facts about Napoleon B. Broward


Broward

Napoleon B. Broward (1857–1910), the Florida governor after which the county is named

Napoleon B. Broward

The race, expected to be an exciting showdown, proved to be such a bore that election news was pushed off the front page by coverage of Halley's Comet.


Napoleon B. Thistlewood

Thistlewood was elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the 1907 death of George W. Smith.

He was elected to the Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses and served from February 1908 to March 1913.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress.

Robert C. Broward

An issue of a national architectural journal was devoted to his work and he was inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame in 2012.


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