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Edward Villella

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Edward Villella is generally regarded as America's most celebrated male dancer. During his career with the New York City Ballet, his supreme artistry–marked by grace, athleticism and virility–helped popularize the role of men in dance. The great…

Hiram D. Williams

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Hiram D. Williams was a painter best known for his powerful, impressionistic figurative images that evoke the spectrum of human emotions ranging from the tragic to the comic. While serving as a faculty member of the University of Florida's art…

Tennessee Williams

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Tennessee Williams, whose name has been synonymous with American Theater almost since the production of The Glass Menagerie in 1945, adopted Key West as his home in the 1940s and lived off and on there for more than 30 years. Williams won many of…

Laura Woodward

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Laura Woodward was Florida's most important nineteenth-century woman artist, one of its greatest publicists, and integral to the development of Palm Beach County. She was born in Mount Hope in Orange County, New York, on March 18, 1834, and by the…

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

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In 1983, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in music. Today, she is widely acknowledged as one of the most acclaimed American composers, writing largely in the post-modernist, neo-romantic style. A graduate of…

Vote-by-Mail

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How to request and vote a vote-by-mail ballot

Precinct-Level Election Results

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Elections results data broken down at the precinct level, going back to 2012.

File Annual Report

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Annual reports are due every year between January 1 and May 1. All business entities must submit an annual report on time to avoid late fees. File online now.

Office of the Director

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Contacts for programs including the Florida Artists Hall of Fame, Art in State Buildings, Poetry Out Loud, and the Florida Poet Laureate.

Statehood

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Florida became the twenty-seventh state in the United States on March 3, 1845.

Civil War and Reconstruction

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During the Civil War, Florida was not ravaged as several other southern states were. Indeed, no decisive battles were fought on Florida soil. While Union forces occupied many coastal towns and forts, the interior of the state remained in…

The Great Depression in Florida

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Florida's economic bubble burst in 1926, when money and credit ran out, and banks and investors abruptly stopped trusting the "paper" millionaires.

European Exploration and Colonization

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Written records about life in Florida began with the arrival of the Spanish explorer and adventurer Juan Ponce de León in 1513.

Voter Registration Reports

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Current and historical voter registration reports, going back to 1995.

Seminole

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Books, articles, and websites about the Seminole Tribe in Florida