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by TBHC @ 8:26 am

75 years ago…

February 18, 1931 – William Carleton, professor of political economy at the University of Florida, predicts to the Tampa Kiwanis Club that the next president of the United States would be a Democrat. Carleton’s forecast came true – Franklin D. Roosevelt won the 1932 election.

Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.

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