1876 – Park Monroe Trammell, the 21st governor of Florida (1913-1917), was born in Macon County, Alabama, on this date. Trammell attended school in Polk County as a youth. As a young man, he worked in a newspaper office in Polk County. During the Spanish-American War, he served in the Quartermaster’s Corps in Tampa. Trammell studied law at Vanderbilt University and Cumberland University, from which he graduated in 1899. After returning to his in Polk County home, he practiced law, owned and operated citrus groves, and operated a newspaper. He served two terms as mayor of Lakeland, was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 1903, and was President of the Florida Senate in 1905. In 1908, Trammell was elected Florida Attorney General, and, in 1912, was elected governor. From 1916 until 1936, Trammell served as United States Senator from Florida. He died in Washington, D.C. on May 8, 1936, and was buried at Roselawn cemetery in Lakeland. The papers of Park Trammell covering his time in office are held at the University of Florida’s Smathers Library, Special and Area Collections department in Gainesville.