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During the robbery two jailers from the Leon County jail, Khomas Revels and Hallie Carroll entered the store. Revels and Carroll attempted to disrupt the robbers, but a struggle ensued and both were shot in the scuffle. Carroll survived the shooting, Revels was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital. The gunmen, however, escaped.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy January 1971, six men were arrested and charged with the robbery/murder. The six included Alfonse Figgers, Johnny Frederik, Dave Keaton, David Charles Smith, Johnny Burns and John Allen Britt. However, Britt later proved to have an out-of-state alibi. The remaining five became know as the Quincy Five because they all resided in Quincy, Florida. On January 28, 1971 all five men were indicted for murder based on what would prove to be coerced confessions, despite lack of physical evidence.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKeaton and Fredericks were tried together in May of 1971. Both were found guilty. 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","This collection is in an offsite storage location. Please contact lib-specialcollections@fsu.edu with requests for access or for more information.","Malcolm Johnson was born on February 13, 1913 in Wardner, Idaho. At the age of three Johnson's family moved to Youngstown, Alberta. In 1925, hoping to take advantage of the economic boom in Florida, Johnson's father moved his family to Jacksonville, Florida. In 1936, Johnson graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in journalism. He studied pre-med until his junior year when he switched to journalism, because he later remarked, it seemed journalism students were having \"a lot more fun.\" Immediately after graduation he briefly worked for the  Jacksonville Journal  and various other Florida newspapers.\n \tNineteen thirty-seven saw many changes in Johnson's life. In that year he married Dorothy Burt, a childhood friend from Jacksonville and went to work for the  Tallahassee Democrat  as the City Editor. In 1940 Johnson left the newspaper to work for the Associated Press in its Tallahassee Capitol Bureau. He remained there fourteen years, the last eleven of which he was Bureau Chief. In 1954 Johnson returned to the  Tallahassee Democrat  and became its Editor.\n \tApart from his editorials, Johnson wrote numerous columns during his twenty-three years as Editor of the  Tallahassee Democrat , including \"Under the Dome\" and \"Campaign Comment.\" However, he is best remembered for his weekly column \"I Declare.\" \"I Declare\" ran five days a week in the  Tallahassee Democrat  from 1965 to 1978 and at its height was syndicated in twenty-five Florida newspapers.\n \tJohnson's columns and editorials reflected his opinion on diverse issues. For instance, Johnson felt strongly about the preservation of nature and history in the \"Big Bend\" area, a name he coined for use in the  Tallahassee Democrat . With others he created the Upsy Daisy Plant Uplift Society that helped rescue plants that would have otherwise been destroyed by road and building construction. Johnson often wrote about local history and lore in his columns and published his own history of frontier Florida,  Red, White, and Bluebloods in Frontier Florida , in 1976. He and his wife were also active in the Tallahassee Historical Society.\n \tHowever, Johnson was a pragmatist and despite his work to preserve aspects of Tallahassee's natural and historic character, he realized that if Tallahassee was to grow certain improvements and additions needed to be made. In this regard he championed the expansion of the airport and the construction of a new library and hospital. He was one of the voices urging the building of a civic center and the development of a research park, the result of which became Innovation Park. Johnson also set up a group through the  Tallahassee Democrat  known as Funders Inc., which sent needy kids to summer camp.\n \tJohnson's tenure at the  Tallahassee Democrat  was not without controversy. His opinions could often be polarizing. He did not see the role of editor as an unbiased mediator. As he explained in one of his columns, \"There is no pretense of being unbiased or sitting in the middle of the road. We agree with the fellow who said he never saw much there except a yellow streak and once in a while a dead skunk or possum.\"\n \tJohnson retired from the  Tallahassee Democrat  in January of 1978. In 1984 he published  I Declare , a collection of essays encapsulating his twenty-three years at the  Tallahassee Democrat . Johnson died December 6, 1989.","Portions of collection available online?: No","Processing of this collection was partially funded by a National Historical and Publications Records Commission grant. The Malcolm Johnson Collection consists of six separate gifts given by Johnson over a period of years. To maintain the original order of these donations, each donation retains its assigned manuscript number but for ease of access, all have been combined into one finding aid.","Tallahassee Democrat Photographs, 1940-1974. State Archives of Florida. RG 900000, M82-77.\nPhotographs of ceremonies, political events, and news-room activities, documenting projects and news stories that Malcom B. Johnson covered while an Associated Press reporter and editor for the Tallahassee Democrat.","Manuscripts, proofs, campaign materials, newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, awards, speeches, reviews, and related materials of Malcolm Johnson, former editor of the  Tallahassee Democrat  newspaper, and a former Associated Press correspondent in Tallahassee, Florida. This collection consists primarily of election materials, correspondence, and papers regarding Johnson's  Red, White and Bluebloods in Frontier Florida . \n \tThe collection includes correspondence with: Alvah H. Chapman, Jr.; J. Montgomery Curtis; Fred O. Dickinson; Leon Dure; Don Fuqua; Lee Hills; Spessard L. Holland; Estes Kefauver; John S. Knight; Payne H. Midyette; Richard Nixon; Violet Pierce; B. A. Ross (Mr. \u0026 Mrs.); Roy W. Russell; Richard Stone; Stanley L. Tait; John M. Tapers; Fuller Warren and Broward Williams.\n \tSubjects and persons mentioned in the collection include: Farris Bryant, LeRoy Collins, John E. Evans, Capital Press Club of Florida, E. V. Fisher, J. Edwin Larson, John McCarty, the Democratic Party, Jefferson County, Robert Floyd, Bill C. 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Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.","The bulk of the Malcolm Johnson Collection documents Johnson's journalistic career from his time with the Associated Press from 1940-1954 to his editorship of the  Tallahassee Democrat  from 1954-1970. The collection includes correspondence, subject and personality files, clippings of Johnson's columns and editorials, photographs, speeches written by Johnson, memorabilia, and various published materials collected by Johnson over his career. In addition, there are materials related to the writing and publication of Johnson's books  I Declare  and  Red, White and Bluebloods in Frontier Florida , such as research materials, photographs, drafts and proofs.","FSU Special Collections \u0026 Archives","Florida. 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Convention, governors, Historic American Buildings Survey, historic buildings, historical markers, Florida history, Tallahassee, Legislators, impeachment, integration, Interstate I-10, judicial fitness, land and water management, libraries, Manion Forum, Florida Geological Survey, the Intercoastal waterway, Miami newspapers, Monticello, NAACP, blacks, Newspaper Guild, nuclear testing, obscenity, oil, ombudsman, Parole Commission, phosphates, Plant Dig, Florida population, prison reform, prisons, Probation and Parole Commission, Pulitzer Prize, railroads, and schools.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\tCollection also includes MSS 0-148, MSS 77-2, MSS 77-13 MSS 77-13a, and MSS 84-06\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSelect materials from the Malcolm Johnson Collection have been digitized and are available through the \u003cextref href=\"https://www.diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:malcolmjohnsoncol\"\u003eFSU Digital Library\u003c/extref\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents","Online Copies Available"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Manuscripts, proofs, campaign materials, newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, awards, speeches, reviews, and related materials of Malcolm Johnson, former editor of the  Tallahassee Democrat  newspaper, and a former Associated Press correspondent in Tallahassee, Florida. This collection consists primarily of election materials, correspondence, and papers regarding Johnson's  Red, White and Bluebloods in Frontier Florida . \n \tThe collection includes correspondence with: Alvah H. Chapman, Jr.; J. Montgomery Curtis; Fred O. Dickinson; Leon Dure; Don Fuqua; Lee Hills; Spessard L. Holland; Estes Kefauver; John S. Knight; Payne H. Midyette; Richard Nixon; Violet Pierce; B. A. Ross (Mr. \u0026 Mrs.); Roy W. Russell; Richard Stone; Stanley L. Tait; John M. Tapers; Fuller Warren and Broward Williams.\n \tSubjects and persons mentioned in the collection include: Farris Bryant, LeRoy Collins, John E. Evans, Capital Press Club of Florida, E. V. Fisher, J. Edwin Larson, John McCarty, the Democratic Party, Jefferson County, Robert Floyd, Bill C. Pearce, judges, Putnam County, the Rotary Club of Tallahassee, academic freedom, Boy Scouts, relocation of the Capitol, cemeteries, flood control, Church and State, civil rights, collective bargaining, communism, contests, Cross-Florida Barge Canal, the Declaration of Independence, the Democratic Convention, democrats, Downtown Idea Exchange, drugs, election campaigns, the electoral college, engineers, Equal Rights Amendment, FSNE, fairgrounds, family planning, Florida Civil War Centennial Commission, federal judges, Florida Heritage Foundation, Florida State University, fluoridation, Freedom of Information, Freedom of Press, G. O. P. Convention, governors, Historic American Buildings Survey, historic buildings, historical markers, Florida history, Tallahassee, Legislators, impeachment, integration, Interstate I-10, judicial fitness, land and water management, libraries, Manion Forum, Florida Geological Survey, the Intercoastal waterway, Miami newspapers, Monticello, NAACP, blacks, Newspaper Guild, nuclear testing, obscenity, oil, ombudsman, Parole Commission, phosphates, Plant Dig, Florida population, prison reform, prisons, Probation and Parole Commission, Pulitzer Prize, railroads, and schools.\n \tCollection also includes MSS 0-148, MSS 77-2, MSS 77-13 MSS 77-13a, and MSS 84-06","Select materials from the Malcolm Johnson Collection have been digitized and are available through the  FSU Digital Library ."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCopyright holder for this collection is Florida State University.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eAll requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections \u0026amp; Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Copyright holder for this collection is Florida State University.","All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections \u0026 Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_2e8cce0d65b2818b39acd548ebf1369d\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThe bulk of the Malcolm Johnson Collection documents Johnson's journalistic career from his time with the Associated Press from 1940-1954 to his editorship of the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTallahassee Democrat\u003c/emph\u003e from 1954-1970. The collection includes correspondence, subject and personality files, clippings of Johnson's columns and editorials, photographs, speeches written by Johnson, memorabilia, and various published materials collected by Johnson over his career. In addition, there are materials related to the writing and publication of Johnson's books \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eI Declare\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eRed, White and Bluebloods in Frontier Florida\u003c/emph\u003e, such as research materials, photographs, drafts and proofs.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The bulk of the Malcolm Johnson Collection documents Johnson's journalistic career from his time with the Associated Press from 1940-1954 to his editorship of the  Tallahassee Democrat  from 1954-1970. The collection includes correspondence, subject and personality files, clippings of Johnson's columns and editorials, photographs, speeches written by Johnson, memorabilia, and various published materials collected by Johnson over his career. In addition, there are materials related to the writing and publication of Johnson's books  I Declare  and  Red, White and Bluebloods in Frontier Florida , such as research materials, photographs, drafts and proofs."],"names_coll_ssim":["Florida. Governor","Democratic Party (Fla.)","Adams, Tom, 1917-","Johnson, Malcolm B., 1913-1989","Bryant, Farris, 1914-2002","Collins, LeRoy","Holland, Spessard L. (Spessard Lindsey), 1892-1971","Kefauver, Estes, 1903-1963","McCarty, John","Warren, Fuller, 1905-1973","Arkus, Harry M.","Bailey, Thomas D.","Carlton, Doyle Elam, 1885-1972","Dickinson, Fred O. (Fred Otis), 1922-1998","Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994"],"names_ssim":["FSU Special Collections \u0026 Archives","Florida. Governor","Democratic Party (Fla.)","Adams, Tom, 1917-","Johnson, Malcolm B., 1913-1989","Bryant, Farris, 1914-2002","Collins, LeRoy","Holland, Spessard L. 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","This collection is in an offsite storage location. Please contact lib-specialcollections@fsu.edu with requests for access or for more information.","Malcolm Johnson was born on February 13, 1913 in Wardner, Idaho. At the age of three Johnson's family moved to Youngstown, Alberta. In 1925, hoping to take advantage of the economic boom in Florida, Johnson's father moved his family to Jacksonville, Florida. In 1936, Johnson graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in journalism. He studied pre-med until his junior year when he switched to journalism, because he later remarked, it seemed journalism students were having \"a lot more fun.\" Immediately after graduation he briefly worked for the  Jacksonville Journal  and various other Florida newspapers.\n \tNineteen thirty-seven saw many changes in Johnson's life. In that year he married Dorothy Burt, a childhood friend from Jacksonville and went to work for the  Tallahassee Democrat  as the City Editor. In 1940 Johnson left the newspaper to work for the Associated Press in its Tallahassee Capitol Bureau. He remained there fourteen years, the last eleven of which he was Bureau Chief. In 1954 Johnson returned to the  Tallahassee Democrat  and became its Editor.\n \tApart from his editorials, Johnson wrote numerous columns during his twenty-three years as Editor of the  Tallahassee Democrat , including \"Under the Dome\" and \"Campaign Comment.\" However, he is best remembered for his weekly column \"I Declare.\" \"I Declare\" ran five days a week in the  Tallahassee Democrat  from 1965 to 1978 and at its height was syndicated in twenty-five Florida newspapers.\n \tJohnson's columns and editorials reflected his opinion on diverse issues. For instance, Johnson felt strongly about the preservation of nature and history in the \"Big Bend\" area, a name he coined for use in the  Tallahassee Democrat . With others he created the Upsy Daisy Plant Uplift Society that helped rescue plants that would have otherwise been destroyed by road and building construction. Johnson often wrote about local history and lore in his columns and published his own history of frontier Florida,  Red, White, and Bluebloods in Frontier Florida , in 1976. He and his wife were also active in the Tallahassee Historical Society.\n \tHowever, Johnson was a pragmatist and despite his work to preserve aspects of Tallahassee's natural and historic character, he realized that if Tallahassee was to grow certain improvements and additions needed to be made. In this regard he championed the expansion of the airport and the construction of a new library and hospital. He was one of the voices urging the building of a civic center and the development of a research park, the result of which became Innovation Park. Johnson also set up a group through the  Tallahassee Democrat  known as Funders Inc., which sent needy kids to summer camp.\n \tJohnson's tenure at the  Tallahassee Democrat  was not without controversy. His opinions could often be polarizing. He did not see the role of editor as an unbiased mediator. As he explained in one of his columns, \"There is no pretense of being unbiased or sitting in the middle of the road. We agree with the fellow who said he never saw much there except a yellow streak and once in a while a dead skunk or possum.\"\n \tJohnson retired from the  Tallahassee Democrat  in January of 1978. In 1984 he published  I Declare , a collection of essays encapsulating his twenty-three years at the  Tallahassee Democrat . Johnson died December 6, 1989.","Portions of collection available online?: No","Processing of this collection was partially funded by a National Historical and Publications Records Commission grant. The Malcolm Johnson Collection consists of six separate gifts given by Johnson over a period of years. To maintain the original order of these donations, each donation retains its assigned manuscript number but for ease of access, all have been combined into one finding aid.","Tallahassee Democrat Photographs, 1940-1974. State Archives of Florida. RG 900000, M82-77.\nPhotographs of ceremonies, political events, and news-room activities, documenting projects and news stories that Malcom B. Johnson covered while an Associated Press reporter and editor for the Tallahassee Democrat.","Manuscripts, proofs, campaign materials, newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence, awards, speeches, reviews, and related materials of Malcolm Johnson, former editor of the  Tallahassee Democrat  newspaper, and a former Associated Press correspondent in Tallahassee, Florida. This collection consists primarily of election materials, correspondence, and papers regarding Johnson's  Red, White and Bluebloods in Frontier Florida . \n \tThe collection includes correspondence with: Alvah H. Chapman, Jr.; J. Montgomery Curtis; Fred O. Dickinson; Leon Dure; Don Fuqua; Lee Hills; Spessard L. Holland; Estes Kefauver; John S. Knight; Payne H. Midyette; Richard Nixon; Violet Pierce; B. A. Ross (Mr. \u0026 Mrs.); Roy W. Russell; Richard Stone; Stanley L. Tait; John M. Tapers; Fuller Warren and Broward Williams.\n \tSubjects and persons mentioned in the collection include: Farris Bryant, LeRoy Collins, John E. Evans, Capital Press Club of Florida, E. V. Fisher, J. Edwin Larson, John McCarty, the Democratic Party, Jefferson County, Robert Floyd, Bill C. Pearce, judges, Putnam County, the Rotary Club of Tallahassee, academic freedom, Boy Scouts, relocation of the Capitol, cemeteries, flood control, Church and State, civil rights, collective bargaining, communism, contests, Cross-Florida Barge Canal, the Declaration of Independence, the Democratic Convention, democrats, Downtown Idea Exchange, drugs, election campaigns, the electoral college, engineers, Equal Rights Amendment, FSNE, fairgrounds, family planning, Florida Civil War Centennial Commission, federal judges, Florida Heritage Foundation, Florida State University, fluoridation, Freedom of Information, Freedom of Press, G. O. P. 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Johnson also set up a group through the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTallahassee Democrat\u003c/emph\u003e known as Funders Inc., which sent needy kids to summer camp.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\tJohnson's tenure at the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTallahassee Democrat\u003c/emph\u003e was not without controversy. His opinions could often be polarizing. He did not see the role of editor as an unbiased mediator. As he explained in one of his columns, \"There is no pretense of being unbiased or sitting in the middle of the road. We agree with the fellow who said he never saw much there except a yellow streak and once in a while a dead skunk or possum.\"\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\tJohnson retired from the \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eTallahassee Democrat\u003c/emph\u003e in January of 1978. 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In 1954 Johnson returned to the  Tallahassee Democrat  and became its Editor.\n \tApart from his editorials, Johnson wrote numerous columns during his twenty-three years as Editor of the  Tallahassee Democrat , including \"Under the Dome\" and \"Campaign Comment.\" However, he is best remembered for his weekly column \"I Declare.\" \"I Declare\" ran five days a week in the  Tallahassee Democrat  from 1965 to 1978 and at its height was syndicated in twenty-five Florida newspapers.\n \tJohnson's columns and editorials reflected his opinion on diverse issues. For instance, Johnson felt strongly about the preservation of nature and history in the \"Big Bend\" area, a name he coined for use in the  Tallahassee Democrat . With others he created the Upsy Daisy Plant Uplift Society that helped rescue plants that would have otherwise been destroyed by road and building construction. 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This collection consists primarily of election materials, correspondence, and papers regarding Johnson's  Red, White and Bluebloods in Frontier Florida . \n \tThe collection includes correspondence with: Alvah H. Chapman, Jr.; J. Montgomery Curtis; Fred O. Dickinson; Leon Dure; Don Fuqua; Lee Hills; Spessard L. Holland; Estes Kefauver; John S. Knight; Payne H. Midyette; Richard Nixon; Violet Pierce; B. A. Ross (Mr. \u0026 Mrs.); Roy W. Russell; Richard Stone; Stanley L. Tait; John M. Tapers; Fuller Warren and Broward Williams.\n \tSubjects and persons mentioned in the collection include: Farris Bryant, LeRoy Collins, John E. Evans, Capital Press Club of Florida, E. V. Fisher, J. Edwin Larson, John McCarty, the Democratic Party, Jefferson County, Robert Floyd, Bill C. Pearce, judges, Putnam County, the Rotary Club of Tallahassee, academic freedom, Boy Scouts, relocation of the Capitol, cemeteries, flood control, Church and State, civil rights, collective bargaining, communism, contests, Cross-Florida Barge Canal, the Declaration of Independence, the Democratic Convention, democrats, Downtown Idea Exchange, drugs, election campaigns, the electoral college, engineers, Equal Rights Amendment, FSNE, fairgrounds, family planning, Florida Civil War Centennial Commission, federal judges, Florida Heritage Foundation, Florida State University, fluoridation, Freedom of Information, Freedom of Press, G. O. P. 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In addition, there are materials related to the writing and publication of Johnson's books \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eI Declare\u003c/emph\u003e and \u003cemph render=\"italic\"\u003eRed, White and Bluebloods in Frontier Florida\u003c/emph\u003e, such as research materials, photographs, drafts and proofs.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["The bulk of the Malcolm Johnson Collection documents Johnson's journalistic career from his time with the Associated Press from 1940-1954 to his editorship of the  Tallahassee Democrat  from 1954-1970. The collection includes correspondence, subject and personality files, clippings of Johnson's columns and editorials, photographs, speeches written by Johnson, memorabilia, and various published materials collected by Johnson over his career. 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He was re-elected in 1936 for another four years, He served as county judge and ex-officio juvenile court judge for Leon County for eight years before being elected to the circuit bench. Walker was nominated in 1940 to replace retiring Judge J.B. Johnson. But before Walker assumed the position of circuit court judge, Judge Johnson died. Walker was appointed to fill Johnson's unexpired term. Running unopposed, he was elected to that post until his death on September, 16, 1974.\n He married Pansy Crosby, daughter of Joseph and Nora Horton Crosby in 1937 and had two sons, W. May Walker, Jr. and Joseph Stanley Walker. During his lengthy career, Judge Walker served on the Florida Supreme Court and presided over many important and internationally known cases on such issues as rape and capital punishment.\n Active in many professional organizations, Judge Walker was a member of the Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, the American Judicature Society, the Tallahassee Bar, the Florida State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the National Conference of State Trial Judges.\n He was a 32-degree Scottish Rite Mason, Shriner, and a member of the Tallahassee Area Chamber of Commerce, the Woodmen of the World, the Seminole Boosters, the Florida Heritage Foundation, the Tallahassee Junior Museum, and the Florida Sheriffs' Association. He was also very active in the First Baptist Church in Tallahassee, where he taught Sunday school for several years and was ordained as a deacon in 1942.\n Included in the collection are papers belonging to his father Nat R. Walker. Nat Walker began his law career as a Clerk in the Court of Wakulla County. During the twelve years he served as County Clerk, he read and studied law. In 1880 Nat R. Walker was admitted to practice, finished his law courses and received a Bachelor of Law degree from Georgetown University in Washington D.C. Nat Walker was elected to serve in the Florida House of Representatives in 1893, 1899, and 1917. He also served as the Reading Clerk of the House for thirty years.","Staff members of the Special Collections Department processed the majority of this collection in August 1976. The final two boxes, comprised of the Personal Business Papers, was only partially processed and remained in that state until February 2002 when it was processed and the finding aid updated. In 2003 a NHRPC grant was awarded to the Special Collections Department to improve access to the civil rights manuscripts housed in the department. In August of 2003 a processing plan was developed stipulating that materials be re-housed according to archival standards. To improve access, all folders were labeled and all folders and boxes were re-numbered. Work was completed in November, 2003.","Staff members of the Special Collections Department processed the majority of this collection in August 1976.  The final two Boxes, comprised of the Personal Business Papers, was only partially processed and remained in that state until February 2002 when it was processed and the finding aid updated.  In 2003 an NHRPC grant was awarded to the Special Collection Department to improve access to the civil rights manuscripts housed in the department.  In August of 2003 a processing plan was developed stipulating that materials be re-housed according to archival standards.  To improve access, all folders were labeled and all folders and Boxes were re-numbered.  Work was completed in November 2003.","The papers of Judge W. 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