James T. Magbee

James T. Magbee, J. T. Magbee, was a pioneer of Tampa, Florida, a lawyer, and the federal collector of revenues at Tampa.[1][2] J. T. Magbee had an illustrious career. Magbee was a Florida State Constitutional Convention delegate, a Florida State Senator, a newspaper publisher and a judge of the Circuit Court. He became a "scalawag" when he changed affiliations from the South to the North shortly after the U.S. Civil War. Known for his public drunkenness, Tampa residents spread molasses and cornmeal on the his unconscious body where it lay in the street and pigs reportedly ate off the sweet mixture along with some of the judge's clothes. Magbee is buried in downtown Tampa's Oaklawn Cemetery.[1]

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  2. ↑ [books.google.com/books?isbn=0807121371 Ossian Bingley Hart: Florida's Loyalist Reconstruction Governor] page 101 Canter Brown 1997

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