In the Sunshine State on this day in 1872 Charles H. Pearce, minister of the African-Methodist Episcopal Church of Tallahassee, was nominated as a candidate for a third Florida Senate term by Governor Harrison Reed at the Leon County Republican Convention.

In 1906 Elizabeth Hutchinson Broward, eight child of Governor and Mrs. Napoleon Broward, became the first child born to a sitting governor in the State of Florida. She was born in the Brown House on Monroe Street in Tallahassee.

In 1912 The Socialist Party of Florida, meeting in convention in Ocala, nominated Thomas W. Cox as its candidate for governor