Ray C. Osborne

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Ray C. Osborne

In office
January 7, 1969 – January 5, 1971
Governor Claude Roy Kirk
Preceded by Milton H. Mabry
Succeeded by Tom Adams

Political party Republican

Ray C. Osborne (born September 7, 1933, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) was a Florida Republican Party politician who served as the first Lieutenant Governor of Florida under the state constitution of 1968 and the state's first lieutenant governor since 1889. Appointed[1] by Republican Governor Claude R. Kirk, Jr., Osborne was sworn in on January 7, 1969.[2][3]

Osborne currently practices law in Boca Raton, Florida.[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ State Archives of Florida Online Catalog. State Library and Archives of Florida. Retrieved on 2008-05-25.
  2. ^ Filming Florida: Images of the Sunshine State. State Archives of Florida. Retrieved on 2008-05-25.
  3. ^ Portrait of Florida's first Lieutenant Governor William W.J. Kelly. State Archives of Florida. Retrieved on 2008-05-25.
  4. ^ Ray C. Osborne. Osborne & Osborne, P.A.. Retrieved on 2008-05-25.
Political offices
Preceded by
Milton H. Mabry
Lieutenant Governor of Florida
1967-1971
Succeeded by
Thomas Burton Adams, Jr.