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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 contains correspondence, reports, and related records of the Executive Office of the Governor regarding the major issues faced by the Crist administration. Topics include:
- appointments and resignations, particularly Public Service Commission resignations by commissioners feeling political pressure in making rate increase decisions
- economic conditions and the use of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funds and other federal funds to support Florida's economy
- methods of improvement the quality of education and campus safety
- emergency management, including the impact of and response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, and requests to the President to issue emergency declarations in the aftermath of tropical storms and hurricanes
- Florida's environmental, climate change, and development of clean energy sources
- promoting open, accessible and ethical government
- public health and safety issues, including services for children and elders
- ensuring veterans' benefits
- property insurance rates and availability of flood insurance
- compensation for the family of Martin Lee Anderson, a youth who died in a juvenile detention facility
- transportation improvements including a proposed high-speed rail line
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