A Guide to Florida Governors and the Florida Cabinet

Claude Roy Kirk, Jr.

Thirty-sixth governor: January 3, 1967 to January 5, 1971

Party Affiliation: Republican

Lt. Governor: Ray C. Osborne (1969-1971)

First Lady: Erika Mattfeld Kirk

Florida Cabinet

Secretary of State:

Tom Adams (1961-1971)

Comptroller:

Fred O. Dickinson (1965-1975)

Treasurer & Insurance Commissioner:

Broward Williams (1965-1971)

Commissioner of Agriculture:

Doyle Conner (1961-1991)

Attorney General:

Earl Faircloth (1965-1971)

Supt. of Public Instruction / Commissioner of Education:

Floyd Thomas Christian (1965-1969)

Florida Photographic Collection:

• Images related to Claude Kirk.
  • Search Kirk, Claude R. (Claude Roy), Jr., 1926- in the Florida Photographic Collection.

Collections at the State Archives of Florida:

• RG 100 Office of the Governor
  • S 184 Cabinet meeting official records, 1966-2005
• RG 102 Governors (1929-1971)
  • S 921 Financial records, 1963-1971
  • S 923 Correspondence, 1967-1971
  • S 925 Cabinet minutes and agenda, 1968-1970
  • S 926 Legal files, 1967-1971
  • S 927 Agency budget files, 1967-1970
  • S 960 Press files, 1967-1970
  • S 962 Campaign position papers, 1966
  • S 1459 Staff correspondence, 1967-1968
• RG 150 Dept. of State
  • S 1394 Cabinet meeting audio recordings, 1966-2002
  • S 697 Secretary of State Tom Adams press files, 1961-1970
• RG 364 Division of Tourism
  • S 2124 Publicity photographs of the Governor, ca. 1967-1991

Other Repositories:

• Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, University of Florida.
  • Interview FP74

Published Materials:

• Kirk, Claude. A Man and His Words: The First Book About Claude Kirk, Jr. Governor of the State of Florida. Tallahassee: Executive Press, 1968.
• Desmond, William James. “A Case Study of the Governor’s War on Crime.” MA Thesis: Florida State University, 1967.
• Kallina, Edmund. Claude Kirk and the Politics of Confrontation. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 1993.

Related Links:

• Claude Kirk, Florida Governors' Portraits, Museum of Florida History.
• Claude Kirk, the Florida Governor's Mansion.