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title: Ellen Call Long
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Call Long
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Ellen Call Long was the daughter of Florida territorial governor Richard Keith Call and a member of the influential Call-Walker political family of Florida. She acquired The Grove from her father in 1851 and held it until 1903. She received distinction after the Civil War for her efforts in historic preservation, history, memorialization, forestry, silkworm cultivation, and the promotion of Florida. She was the author of Florida Breezes, a semi-fictional account of antebellum life primarily set in Middle Florida, which is widely regarded as one of the best primary source accounts of the planter class lifestyle in Florida.

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Ellen Call Long
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nid: 3961
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title: Tracy J. Revels
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Tracy J.
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Revels
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A Florida native, Tracy J. Revels has a passionate love for Florida history and Sherlock Holmes. She received her PHD from Florida State University in 1990. Along with articles and reviews, her scholarly works include Watery Eden: A History of Wakulla Springs; Grander in Her Daughters: Florida's Women During the Civil War; Sunshine Paradise: A History of Florida Tourism, and Florida's Civil War: Terrible Sacrifices. In 2005 the Florida Historical Society awarded Grander in Her Daughters the Rembert Patrick Prize for the best academic work in Florida history.

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title: James E.C. Perry
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James
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Perry
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Perry was born in 1944. Perry earned his undergraduate degree in business administration and accounting from Saint Augustine's College in 1966. Perry served as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army from 1966 to 1969.  After serving in the U.S. Army, he earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1972. James E.C. Perry was a justice on the Florida Supreme Court. He was appointed to this position by then-Republican Governor Charlie Crist in March 2009 to fill the seat vacated by Charles Wells. Justice Perry retired in December 2016.

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Wikipedia▼Ballot Pedia▼Florida Courts
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._C._Perry▼https://ballotpedia.org/James_E.C._Perry▼https://supremecourt.flcourts.gov/Justices/Former-Justices/Justice-James-E.C.-Perry
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title: Mary E. Adkins
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Mary E.
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Adkins
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Mary Adkins is a Master Legal Skills Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Adkins teaches legal writing. In addition, she is faculty liaison to the First District Appellate American Inn of Court, and has presented nationally matters related to legal writing. She was Chair of the AALS Section on Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research in 2020, and received an Outstanding Service Award from the Board of Directors of the Association of Legal Writing Directors.

Professor Adkins has researched the history of the 1968 Florida Constitution and its revisions and has presented dozens of times on Florida constitutional history. She has published two books: Making Modern Florida: How the Spirit of Reform Shaped a New Constitution, in 2016, and Chesterfield Smith, America’s Lawyer, in 2020, which won the 2020 Rembert Patrick Award, presented by the Florida Historical Society for best scholarly work on a topic of Florida history. Her co-authored casebook, Florida Constitutional Law: Cases in Context, will be published this year. She has also published several articles on Florida constitutional history and constitution revision and has served as an expert witness regarding the history of the Florida Constitution. She has conducted numerous oral history interviews of Florida legal, political and historical figures and is an executive board member of the Florida Supreme Court Historical Society. Prior to joining UF Law Adkins worked in private practice. She earned her B.S.J., M.A., and J.D. from the University of Florida.

Education
J.D., University of Florida
M.A., University of Florida
B.S.J., University of Florida

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Mary E. Adkins
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Author's website▼Levin College of Law
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title: Kamilah Perry
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Kamilah
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Perry
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Kamilah Perry practices in the area of labor and employment. She represents clients in civil court litigation and administrative proceedings regarding claims involving employment discrimination laws, wage and hour laws, family and medical leave laws, union-management relations, employee benefits, and various employment-related torts. Her experience also includes insurance coverage, insurance defense, commercial litigation and business torts.
 

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Kamillah Perry
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Perry Law Group
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title: Fredrick T. Davis
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Frederick
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Davis
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Thomas Frederick Davis (writer and historian) was born in Chatham, Virginia on April 24, 1877. He was the son of Horatio Davis, a prominent Virginian lawyer who moved his family to Gainesville, Florida in 1886 (and later served as mayor from 1908 to 1909).

T. Frederick grew up in Gainesville and attended East Florida Seminary. He then joined the National Weather Bureau and worked in Galveston, Texas, Jacksonville, Florida, and Curacao in the West Indies. In 1902, upon his return to the United States, he worked in the Weather Bureau's Washington, D.C. office and wrote a history of Curacao. In 1905, he moved back to Jacksonville and continued his interests in research and writing by compiling a history of Jacksonville's climate. The National Weather Bureau accepted this compilation and published it as an official reference.

In 1911 Davis published the book for which he is most noted, "The History of Early Jacksonville, Florida." He later revised this book and republished it in 1925 as "The History of Jacksonville and Vicinity, 1513-1924."

In 1914 Davis retired from the Weather Bureau and started his own insurance company. During World War I, he played an active role at home, enlisting in the Duval County Militia and working on the Home Front. He also wrote extensively for the Florida Historical Quarterly. Among his better-known articles are "MacGregor's Invasion of Florida, 1817," "History of Juan Ponce de Leon's Voyages to Florida, Source Records," and "US Troops in Spanish East Florida, 1812-1813." In 1939, Davis published another important work: Digest of Florida Material in Niles' Register, 1811-1849, an index to articles about Florida published in the 76 volumes of the Register. The Florida Historical Society described it as a "continuous, contemporaneous and semiofficial history of the United States." Beginning in 1943, he also wrote a series of narratives for the Quarterly called Pioneer Florida.
 

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UF, T. Frederick Davis Papers
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title: Bob Kealing
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Bob
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Kealing
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Bob Kealing is the author of six critically acclaimed books about Florida history and culture. He has founded four Florida Heritage sites, and was instrumental in the development of the Kerouac House in Orlando as the home of an active writers-in-residence program. Bob Kealing is a two-time Edward R. Murrow Award and six-time Emmy Award winning television reporter in Central Florida.

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Instagram
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