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8 unusual facts about Sarasota County


Doug Holder

Doug Holder (born on December 7, 1966) is a Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 74th District, which includes Sarasota County, since 2012.

Fenwick W. English

What worked in Arizona on the small scale would get its true test in the Sarasota County, Florida district schools.

Fort Jackson National Cemetery

Areas not served by an existing National Cemetery and containing at least 170,000 veteran residents included Bakersfield, California; Birmingham, Alabama; Jacksonville, Florida; Sarasota County, Florida; southeastern Pennsylvania and Columbia-Greenville, South Carolina.

Ischnodemus variegatus

In 2000, I. variegatus was discovered feeding voraciously on the weed in Myakka River State Park in Sarasota County, Florida.

Ray Pilon

Ray Pilon (born January 11, 1945) is a Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives, representing the 72nd District, which includes northern Sarasota County, since 2012.

In 2010, when incumbent Democratic State Representative Keith Fitzgerald ran for a third term in the House, Pilon returned from political retirement to challenge him in the 69th District, which included a few precincts in southern Manatee County and northwestern Sarasota County.

Richard Haas

These include Chase Field; the Robert C. Byrd Federal Building & Courthouse in Beckley, West Virginia; the main branch of the New York Public Library, the Lakewood Public Library (Ohio), the Sarasota County, Florida Judicial Center and the former Board of Education building in Brooklyn, NY´.

Rita Ferrandino

She is also active in Democratic politics, serving as the chair of the Sarasota County Democratic Party since 2007.


Pilot Software

The company has more than 300 customers, including GSA, Sears, Health Net, and Sarasota County, Florida.

The Pet Goat

On the morning of September 11, 2001, George Bush was reading the story along with a group of schoolchildren at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota County, Florida, when White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card informed him that a second airplane had just hit the World Trade Center.


see also

Florida's 13th congressional district

The primary controversy in this race was that over 18,000 ballots (or roughly one in six) cast in Sarasota County apparently did not register a vote for this race, far higher than in the two previous elections involving Jan Schneider, but lower than the undervote in 2000.

Manasota Key, Florida

Bobby Vinton - Pop Singer; has an estate on the Sarasota County portion of Manasota Key.