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Claude Roy Kirk Jr. (January 7, 1926 – September 28, 2011) was an American businessman and politician who served as the 36th governor of Florida from 1967 to 1971. A Republican for most his career, he was the first Republican governor of Florida since Reconstruction .
Sep 29, 2011 · MIAMI — Claude R. Kirk Jr., who as a brash political neophyte became Florida’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction, then basked in publicity and courted confrontation in an eventful...
Claude R. Kirk Jr., who during his single, spectacularly colorful term as Florida’s governor from 1967 to 1971, hired a private police force, defied federal court orders and was a herald of a...
Claude Roy Kirk, Jr. Oil or acrylic on canvas, Ben Stahl, 1972. Born in San Bernardino, Calif., Claude Kirk's family also lived in Chicago, Ill., and Montgomery, Ala. After graduating from high school at age seventeen, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and rose to the rank of lieutenant.
Sep 28, 2011 · Former Florida Gov. Claude R. Kirk Jr. has died at age 85. He was the first Republican to hold that office in the 20th century. His family says Kirk died peacefully Wednesday in his sleep at...
Sep 28, 2011 · Former Palm Beach resident and former Florida Gov. Claude R. Kirk Jr. died Wednesday in West Palm Beach. He was 85. Gov. Kirk died peacefully in his sleep, a statement from his family said.
Sep 28, 2011 · Claude R. Kirk Jr., the flamboyant Republican who broke the Democratic stranglehold on the Florida governor's mansion and helped reshape environmental policy in the state, died quietly at his...
