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Record Group Number: 900000
Series/Collection Number: M88- 54
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Title, Dates: U.S. Representative Don Fuqua photographs, 1962-1984.
Amount: 23 photographs
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Biographical/Historical:     Don Fuqua was born in Jacksonville, Florida, on August 20, 1933. When he was four years old the Fuqua family moved to Altha in Calhoun County, Florida. Fuqua attended the University of Florida (UF) from 1951 to 1953 and served in the United States Army Medical Corps from 1953 to 1955 with a portion of that service in the Korean War. He returned to UF and after graduating in 1957 engaged in the agriculture and dairy businesses.

    From 1958 to 1962 Fuqua served in the Florida House of Representatives from Calhoun County. He then won election to represent the 2nd District of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1963 and remained in the House until his retirement from public service in 1987. He was appointed early in his Congressional career to the House Science and Technology Committee and became its chairman in 1979. He also served on the Government Operations Committee. Upon leaving Congress in 1987, Fuqua became president of Aerospace Industries Association.
Summary:     This collection consists of photographs depicting U.S. Representative Don Fuqua at various meetings, speeches, and events, including meetings with United States Presidents Lyndon Johnson (in 1969) and Ronald Reagan (in 1984, with Senator Lawton Chiles). The collection also includes a mounted color photograph of the Space Shuttle Columbia launching from Kennedy Space Center in 1982.
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General Note: Florida Photographic Collection Number P1988-054
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Subject Access Fields: Chiles, Lawton, 1930-1998
Fuqua, Don.
Reagan, Ronald.
United States. Congress.
United States. Congress.  --House.
United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)
Legislators United States
Space shuttle program.
Photographs. aat
Florida Politics and government 1951-
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