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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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This series documents the activities of the Governor's Press Office in promoting and monitoring the public image and activities of the Crist administration. Included in the series are editorials and news clips concerning issues or activities involving or of interest to the administration; memos to the press notifying them of upcoming activities such as podcasts or broadcasts, bill signings, Executive Orders, etc.; opinion columns by Governor Crist promoting the administrations views and policies on major issues; press releases announcing administration accomplishments and initiatives; speeches, talking points, and statements on a wide variety of issues and events; a weekly newsletter providing regular updates on administration activities; announcements of gubernatorials appointments (e.g. agency heads, judicial appointments, etc.); budget release announcements; and topical files containing press releases, talking points, fact sheets, and other documentation of issues such as the economy, education, public safety, and transportation; and legislative bill veto messages. Some of the files include a small number of photographs of events or activitites relating to the press items. A number of Spanish-language press releases, web pages, and other materials are in the folder entitled Press-Websites.
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Crist, Charlie, 1956-
Governors Florida
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