Reubin O’Donovan Askew Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Reubin O'Donovan Askew (September 11, 1928 – March 13, 2014) was an American politician, who served as the 37th Governor of the U.S. state of Florida from 1971 to 1979. He led on tax reform, civil rights, and financial transparency for public officials, maintaining an outstanding reputation for personal integrity. Askew is widely thought to have been one of the state's best governors; in 2014 the Tampa Bay Times ranked him the second best governor in Florida history and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University rated him one of the country's top ten governors of the 20th century.
In 1999, The Reubin O'D. Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University was re-named for him, offering courses in government at Florida State University and several of the other public Florida universities, as a satellite program. Askew taught a graduate seminar at the school, regarding state government, local government, and international trade, all areas where he was in public service.
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In 1994, the Reubin O'D Askew Institute on Politics and Society at the University of Florida was established.
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At Florida State University, he was elected Student Body President.
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Attended and graduated from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, after his stint in the Air Force.
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At FSU he was a double fraternity member, at Delta Tau Delta and Alpha Phi Omega.
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Attended Florida State University, graduating in 1951 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Administration.
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He graduated from Pensacola High School, in Pensacola, Florida in 1946, entering the US Army upon graduation.
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One of six children of Leon G. Askew and Alberta O'Donovan Askew. Due to his father being a violent alcoholic, his mother obtained a divorce and moved with the children from Oklahoma back to her hometown of Pensacola, Florida in 1937, when Askew was 9 years old.
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Askew was one of just five Florida Governors to be elected for two terms (the others were LeRoy Collins, Bob Graham, Lawton Chiles, and Jeb Bush). Askew was the first Governor to serve two full four-year terms.
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He was the keynote speaker at the 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami.
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Interstate 110 in Pensacola is named the Reubin O'Donovan Askew Parkway.
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Pensacola High School, his alma mater, named the school library the Reubin O'Donovan Askew Library.
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The Student Life Center at Florida State University was renamed as the Reubin O'D. Askew Student Life Center in his honor.
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The Harvard Kennedy School of Government named him as one of the ten best US Governors of the twentieth century.
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Title
Year
Status
Character
Samantha Smith Goes to Washington: Campaign '84
1984
TV Movie
Himself
The Mike Douglas Show
1972-1976
TV Series
Himself - Florida Governor
Known for movies
Samantha Smith Goes to Washington: Campaign '84 1984 as Himself
The Mike Douglas Show 1972-1976 as Himself - Florida Governor
$1.2 Million
