A Guide to Florida Governors and the Florida Cabinet

Sidney Catts

Twenty-second governor: January 2, 1917 to January 4, 1921

Party Affiliation: Prohibition

Lt. Governor: None

First Lady: Alice May Campbell Catts

Florida Cabinet

Secretary of State:

Clay Crawford (1902-1929)

Comptroller:

William V. Knott (1912-1917)
Ernest Amos (1917-1933)

Treasurer:

J. C. (John Christian) Luning (1912-1928)

Commissioner of Agriculture:

William Allen McRae (1912-1923)

Attorney General:

Thomas F. West (1913-1917)
Van Cicero Swearingen (1917-1921)

Supt. of Public Instruction:

William N. Sheats (1913-1922)

Florida Photographic Collection:

• Images related to Sidney Catts.
  • Search Catts, Sidney Johnston, 1863-1936 in the Florida Photographic Collection.

Video:

• Video - Gov. Sidney J. Catts Inauguration.

Collections at the State Archives of Florida:

• RG 101 Territorial and State Governors (1820-1929)
  • S 613 State Governors correspondence, 1909-1925

Other Repositories:

• Papers, University of West Florida.

Published Materials:

• Deal, John Ricard. “Sidney Johnston Catts: Stormy Petrel of Florida Politics.” MA Thesis: University of Florida, 1949.
• Lord, Dorothy. “Sidney J. Catts and the Gubernatorial Election of 1916.” Apalachee (1963-1967).
• Chance, Jean. “Sidney J. Catts and the Press: A Study of Editorial Coverage of the 1916 Governors Race.” MA Thesis: University of Florida, 1969.
• Flynt, Wayne. Cracker Messiah: Governor Sidney J. Catts of Florida. Baton Rouge, La: Lousiiana State University, 1977.

Related Links:

• Sidney Catts, Florida Governors' Portraits, Museum of Florida History.