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Senate Years of Service: 1946-1971 Party: Democrat
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HOLLAND, Spessard Lindsey, a Senator from Florida; born in Bartow, Polk County, Fla., July 10, 1892; attended
the public schools; graduated from Emory College near Atlanta, Ga., in 1912 and from the University
of Florida College of Law at Gainesville in 1916; taught in public schools of Warrenton, Ga.,
1912-1914; admitted to the bar in 1916 and commenced practice in Bartow, Fla.; during the First
World War served in the Coast Artillery Corps and the Army Air Corps in France 1918; prosecuting
attorney of Polk County, Fla., 1919-1920; county judge of Polk County 1921-1929; member, State
Senate 1932-1940; Governor of Florida 1941-1945; trustee of Southern College 1932-1935;
trustee of Emory University 1943-1946; appointed on September 25, 1946, as a Democrat to the
United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles O. Andrews for the term
ending January 3, 1947; elected for the full term in 1946, reelected in 1952, 1958, and again in 1964
and served from September 25, 1946, to January 2, 1971; was not a candidate for reelection in 1970;
sponsor of the twenty-fourth amendment to the Constitution outlawing the poll tax in federal elections;
retired and resided in Bartow, Fla., where he died November 6, 1971; interment in Wildwood
Cemetery.
BibliographyU.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses.
92nd Cong., 2nd sess., 1972. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1972.
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