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Charlie Crist, the forty-fourth Governor of Florida, began his gubernatorial term on January 2, 2007. Prior to being elected Governor in 2006, Crist held elective office as a Florida State Senator (elected 1992), Education Commissioner (elected 2000), and Attorney General (elected 2002). On May 12, 2009, Crist announced his candidacy for the United States Senate seat being vacated by Mel Martinez. He lost that election to Marco Rubio, and his term as Governor ended in January 2011. Charlie Crist was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania on July 24, 1956, and later moved with his family to St. Petersburg, Florida. He attended Wake Forest University for two years, completed his undergraduate degree at Florida State University in 1978, and received his law degree in 1981 from the Cumberland School of Law in Alabama.
After passing the bar exam, Crist served as general counsel to minor league baseball. He first ran for office in the 1986 Republican primary for a state Senate seat in Pinellas County. He followed up this unsuccessful run, he served as an aide to Connie Mack III in Mack's successful 1988 bid for a U.S. Senate seat.
Serving in the Florida Senate for six years, Crist chaired the Senate Ethics and Elections Committee and he Appropriations Criminal Justice Subcommittee. In 1999, following his term in the Senate, Crist was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation by Governor Jeb Bush.
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The series contains digital photographs documenting activities and events during the Crist Administration, accompanied by daily schedules, notebooks of proof images, correspondences, and photographs. The records document press conferences; activities of the State Emergency Response Team (SERT); attendance at conferences, fundraisers, and dinners; bill signings; events held at the Governor's Mansion; meetings with elected officials, public figures, celebrities, and Florida citizens; international travel; and formal portraits. Notable events documented by the records include Crist supporting President Barack Obama's stimulus package; response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; tornadoes in Volusia and Lake Counties; Tropical Storm Fay; forest fires in North Florida and Bradford County; and 2010 Haiti Earthquake survivors arriving in Florida. This series also contains documentation on the Governor and Lieutenant Governor's attendance at the Summit on Global Climate Change. The photographs were taken by Eric Tournay, the state photographer, and Stacy Ferris.
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