A Guide to Florida Governors and the Florida Cabinet

Harrison Reed

Ninth governor: July 4, 1868 to January 7, 1873

Party Affiliation: Republican

Lt. Governor: William H. Gleason (1868-1870); Edmund C. Weeks (1870-1871); Samuel T. Day (1871-1873)

First Lady: Chloe Merrick Reed

Florida Cabinet

Secretary of State:

Benjamin Allen (1863-1868)
George Alden (1868-1868)
Jonathan Gibbs (1868-1873

Comptroller:

John Beard (1866-1868)
Robert H. Gamble (1868-1873)

Treasurer:

Simon Barclay Conover (1868-1873)

Commissioner of Immigration:

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Attorney General:

James D. Westcott (1868)
A.R. Meek (1868-1870)
Sherman Conant (1870-1871)
J.B.C. Drew (1871-1872)
Horatio Bisbee, Jr. (1872)
J.P.C. Emmons (1872-1873)

Adjutant General:

John Varnum (1870-1877)

Supt. of Public Instruction:

C. Thurston Chase (1868-1870)
Henry Quarles (1870-1871)
Rev. Charles Beecher (1871-1873)

Surveyor General

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Florida Photographic Collection:

• Images of Harrison Reed.
  • Search Reed, Harrison, 1813-1899 in the Florida Photographic Collection.

Collections at the State Archives of Florida:

• RG 101 Territorial and State Governors (1820-1929)
  • S 577 State governors' incoming correspondence, 1857-1888
• RG 690 State Board of Pardons
  • S 158Pardon, commutation, and remission decrees, 1869-1909
• RG 915 Legislature
  • S887 Records, 1845-1911
• RG 900000 Manuscripts
  • M92-1 Call family and Brevard family papers, 1788-1925

Published Materials:

• Ackerman, Philip D. “Florida Reconstruction from Walker through Reed, 1865-1873.” MA Thesis: University of Florida, 1973.

Related Links:

• Harrison Reed, Florida Governors' Portraits, Museum of Florida History.