"26th Governor of Florida" David Sholtz Signed TLS Dated 1937 Todd Mueller COA

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Up for auction the "26th Governor of Florida" David Sholtz Signed TLS Dated 1937.
This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
This is a rare document signed as an attorney in private practice just after his term in office.
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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
.