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\"26th Governor of Florida\" David Sholtz Signed TLS Dated 1937:
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Up for sale the "26th Governor of Florida" David Sholtz Signed TLS Dated 1937.

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David Sholtz (October 6, 1891 – March 21, 1953) was

the 26th Governor of Florida.

Sholtz was born to Jewish

parents [1] in Brooklyn, New York, and after graduating from Yale, where he was a

member of the Acacia Fraternity, in 1914 he went on and

earned a law degree from Stetson University Law School, which

enabled him to become a Florida lawyer without having to take the bar

examination, as Florida then adhered to the diploma

privilege. With his law degree, he started a law practice in Daytona Beach, Florida. He married Alice

May Agee, with whom he had three children. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War I.

Sholtz entered politics when he

became a one-term member of the Florida House of Representatives

in 1917. After that, he was a State

Attorney from 1919 to 1921, and he became a city judge in 1921.

Taking the oath on January 4, 1933, he became governor during the Great

Depression. During his tenure as governor, he established the

Florida Park Service and Florida Citrus Commission, passed a workers' compensation law, mandated free textbooks

in public schools, and funded

salaries for public school teachers. While in office, he was a strong advocate

of governmental restructuring. After leaving the Governor's Mansion on January

5, 1937, Sholtz unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 1938, losing the Democratic primary

to Claude Pepper.

He spent most of his time in New York after his term as governor, but he

retained his residency in Florida. He died while visiting Key West,

Florida in 1953 and is buried at the Cedar Hill Memory Gardens in Daytona Beach, Florida.

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