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Record Group Number: 000109
Series/Collection Number: .S 2250
Creator: Florida. Governor (2007-2011 : Crist)
Title, Dates: Executive staff electronic mail, 2006-2010.
Amount: 11.5 gigabytes (15 files, 8 folders: Size 11.5 GB (12,389,013,504 bytes))
Medium Included: Electronic records.
Organization/Arrangement: Arranged by staff member, then chronological.
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Biographical/Historical:     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.

Summary:     This series consists of electronic mail of Governor Crist's executive office staff reflecting their responsibilities and their handling of all the major issues dealt with by the administration. Email is included for the following staff:

    -Chief of Staff and Crist confident George LeMieux
    -Deputy Chief of Staff Arlene DiBenigno
    -Deputy Chief of Staff Charles (Chuck) Drago
    -Policy Director (November 2007-October 2009) and later Deputy Chief of Staff (October 2009-July
          2010) David (Dave) Foy
    -Deputy Chief of Staff Eric Eikenberg
    -Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Rimes
    -Deputy Chief of Staff Lori Rowe
    -Policy Director  (February 2010-July 2010) and later Deputy Chief of Staff (starting July 2010) Ken
          Granger

Finding Aids: Folder listing. 0
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Electronic Records Access: PST files: must be loaded onto user's hard drive and opened using MS Outlook software.
Subject Access Fields: Crist, Charlie, 1956-
Governors Florida
Electronic mail. aat
Florida Officials and employees
Florida Government
Florida Politics and government 1951-
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