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   Claude Roy Kirk Jr. (January 7, 1926 – September 28, 2011) was an American businessman and politician who served as the 36th governor of Florida from 1967 to 1971. A Republican for most his career, he was the first Republican governor of Florida since Reconstruction.

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3. www.washingtonpost.com › local › obituariesClaude R. Kirk Jr., colorful ex-governor of Florida, dies at 85

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   Claude R. Kirk Jr., who during his single, spectacularly colorful term as Florida’s governor from 1967 to 1971, hired a private police force, defied federal court orders and was a herald of a...

4. www.nytimes.com › 2011/09/29 › usClaude R. Kirk Jr., Former Florida Governor, Dies at 85

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   Sep 29, 2011 · MIAMI — Claude R. Kirk Jr., who as a brash political neophyte became Florida’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction, then basked in publicity and courted confrontation in an eventful...

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5. www.jacksonville.com › story › newsColorful former Gov. Claude Kirk Jr. 'knew no limits'

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   Sep 28, 2011 · Claude Kirk Jr., who was a Jacksonville businessman before he upended the political establishment by winning the governor's race in 1966, died Wednesday. He was 85. Mr. Kirk served as...

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6. dos.fl.gov › florida-governors › claude-roy-kirk-jrClaude Roy Kirk, Jr. - Florida Department of State

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   Claude Roy Kirk , Jr. (1926–2011) Thirty-sixth governor. January 3, 1967 to January 5, 1971. Oil or acrylic on canvas, Ben Stahl, 1972. Born in San Bernardino, Calif., Claude Kirk's family also lived in Chicago, Ill., and Montgomery, Ala.

7. www.palmbeachpost.com › story › newsClaude Kirk, 1926-2011, remembered as flamboyant, game ...

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   Sep 28, 2011 · Claude R. Kirk Jr., the flamboyant Republican who broke the Democratic stranglehold on the Florida governor's mansion and helped reshape environmental policy in the state, died quietly at his...

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   Who was Claude Kirk Jr?

   • MIAMI — Claude R. Kirk Jr., who as a brash political neophyte became Florida’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction, then basked in publicity and courted confrontation in an eventful four years, died on Tuesday at his home in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 85. His family announced his death in a statement.

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   What happened to Claude Kirk?

   • Claude R. Kirk Jr., who during his single, spectacularly colorful term as Florida’s governor from 1967 to 1971, hired a private police force, defied federal court orders and was a herald of a Republican resurgence in the state, died Sept. 28 at his home in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 85.

   Claude R. Kirk Jr., colorful ex-governor of Florida, dies at 85

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   Where did Kirk go to Law School?

   • Kirk was accepted at the University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa and graduated in 1949. He was recalled to the Marines for the Korean War and was initially assigned to the 1st Marine Division. He later served aboard the battleship USS New Jersey and was discharged as a first lieutenant in 1952.

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9. www.floridamemory.com › photo_exhibits › kirkFlorida Memory • Claude Roy Kirk, Jr. (1926-2011)

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   In 1967, at the age of 41, he became the first Republican Governor of Florida since 1872. Having campaigned promising no new taxes, Governor Kirk pledged to run the state government like a business in order to help attract new business and industry to the state.