tampa attorney withdraws from race
40 years ago…
May 31, 1966 – Rep. Robert Mann, a Tampa attorney, announces his withdrawal from the race for speaker of the Florida House of Representatives during a Tiger Bay Political Club luncheon. Mann threw his support behind Rep. Ralph Turlington of Gainesville, but also declared his intention to pursue the same post in 1969.
Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.
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