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Sportspeople from Lakeland, Florida (2 C, 34 P) Pages in category "People from Lakeland, Florida" The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total.
Prades Tavernier (fl. late 13th-early 14th centuries), French weaver and Cathar Perfect René Tavernier (geologist) (1914–1992), Belgian geologist and stratigrapher René Tavernier (poet) (1915–1989), French writer and philosopher, father of Bertrand Tavernier
Lakeland Electric is a municipal utility and government department of the city of Lakeland, Florida. [79] [80] Lakeland was the third city in the state of Florida to have electric lighting powered in 1891 by The Lakeland Light and Power Company after Jacksonville and Tampa. Over a decade later in 1904, citizens purchased the private light power ...
Esther Lipsen was born on January 18, 1930, in Des Moines, Iowa; her father was an emigrant cattle dealer from present-day Moldova and her mother was a homemaker from Romania. [1] [2] They moved to Mazomanie, Wisconsin, and Lipsen became interested in politics at age 8, after listening to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's fireside chats on the ...
Tiger Flowers Cemetery is a historic cemetery for African Americans in Lakeland, Florida. Most of its burials are in crypts. It is now city-owned and has struggled with maintenance issues and poor record keeping. [1] [2] The cemetery is named for boxer Tiger Flowers. [1] Burials include Henry Wilkins Chandler.
Polk County (/ p oʊ k /) is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Florida.The county population was 725,046, as of the 2020 census, and estimated to be 818,330, as of July 1, 2023. [1]
The following is a list of mayors of the city of Lakeland, Florida, United States.The City of Lakeland was incorporated on January 1, 1885. The mayor is one of seven members of the City Commission, acting as the board chair and performing mostly ceremonial and procedural duties beyond the powers of the other six.
On January 2, 1973, he was officially appointed mayor by the City Commission by a 4–3 vote, [4] the first African-American mayor in the city's history and one of several Black mayors elected in the early 1970s in Florida (along with Neil A. Butler of Gainesville, James R. Ford of Tallahassee, George Gause of Bartow, and Albert Tresvant of Opa ...