Ray C. Osborne, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ray C. Osborne

American politician

Date of Birth: 07-Sep-1933

Place of Birth: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

Date of Death: 03-Mar-2011

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Ray C. Osborne

  • Raymond Claiborne Osborne (September 7, 1933 – March 3, 2011), 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 by Republican Governor Claude R.
  • Kirk, Jr., Osborne was sworn in on January 7, 1969 for a term that lasted two years.In 1970, while Kirk sought re-election as governor, Osborne planned to run for the United States Senate in the Republican primary election against U.S.
  • Representative William C.
  • Cramer of St.
  • Petersburg, whose nomination Kirk personally opposed.
  • However, Osborne withdrew from the race when Judge G.
  • Harrold Carswell of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, who had been repudiated by the U.S.
  • Senate for a seat on the Supreme Court, entered the race for senator.
  • Carswell hoped to confront the senators who blocked his appointment.
  • Ultimately, Cramer was nominated for the Senate but lost the general election to the Democrat Lawton Chiles of Lakeland.
  • Years later, Kirk said that he "should have stuck with Osborne" and not encouraged Carswell to run.
  • Kirk also said that he had not "created" Carswell's candidacy, as many in the media had then depicted.Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Osborne graduated from North Carolina State University in 1955.
  • He then served in the United States Army from 1955 to 1957.
  • Osborne graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1961.
  • Osborne moved with his wife to St.
  • Petersburg, Florida.
  • From 1964 to 1968, Osborne served in the Florida House of Representatives, and unsuccessfully ran for the Florida Public Service Commission in 1968.
  • Osborne practiced law for many years in Boca Raton, Florida, until his death in March 2011.

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