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8 unusual facts about Reubin Askew


Alan R. Schwartz

He was appointed Circuit Judge by Governor Reubin Askew on April 18, 1973 and served in that capacity until 1978.

Donald M. Middlebrooks

He was in private practice from 1973 to 1974 and served as General Counsel to Florida Governor Reubin Askew from 1974 to 1977.

Gene Miller

In 1975, Miller sent the galleys to his book to then-Florida attorney general Robert Shevin and then-Florida Governor Reubin Askew.

Joseph W. Hatchett

On September 2, 1975, Hatchett was appointed to the Florida Supreme Court by governor Reubin Askew.

Pitts and Lee v. Florida

Arthur Kennedy, the legal adviser to Governor Reubin Askew, read an early copy of Miller's Invitation to a Lynching.

The prosecutors deliberately tampered with evidence, and the men were sentenced to death by an all-white jury, Freddie Lee Pitts and Wilbert Lee (the defendants) were imprisoned for twelve years before being pardoned by then-Florida Governor Reubin Askew on September 20, 1975.

Reubin Askew

Mike Thompson, who managed the 1970 Republican gubernatorial primary campaign waged by state Representative L. A. "Skip" Bafalis, sat out the general election between Kirk and Askew.

Trevor Colbourn

In 1978, Governor Reubin Askew approved the change of name from Florida Technological University to the University of Central Florida.



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