James Elliott Connor (July 7, 1904 – December 7, 1995[1]) was an American politician in the state of Florida.
Connor was born in Gadsden, Alabama, to Claude Eugene and Ruby Clayton (Dunklin) Connor. The family moved to Florida in 1907.[2] Connor attended public schools in Marion County, graduated from Citrus County High School in 1922, and attended the University of Florida.[3] He was a business fuel oil distributor and rancher.[4] Connor served in the Florida State Senate from 1955 to 1965 as a Democratic member for the 9th district.[5] He was a member of the Pork Chop Gang, a group of legislators from rural areas that dominated the state legislature due to malapportionment and used their power to engage in McCarthyist tactics.[6][7]
References
- ^ CRAIG BASSE; DAN DeWITT (October 4, 2005). "Former Florida Senate president dies". Tampa Bay Times.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (originally published December 1995) - ^ Cash, William Thomas (25 June 2017). "The Story of Florida". American historical society, Incorporated – via Google Books.
- ^ Florida, State Library and Archives of. "Portrait of Senator James E. (Nick) Connor of Brooksville". Florida Memory.
- ^ The Florida Handbook. Peninsular Publishing Company. 25 June 1965 – via Internet Archive.
Connor, James E. (Nick), Senator, Ninth District; business fuel oil distributor, rancher; born July 7, 1904, at Gadsden, Ala*.
- ^ "Florida Senators". uflib.ufl.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-01-13. Retrieved September 21, 2014.
- ^ Group portrait of the Pork Chop Gang during the 1956 special session of the Senate, Florida Memory, 1956, archived from the original on July 15, 2015, retrieved July 14, 2015
- ^ Weitz, Seth (2009-03-01). "Defending the Old South: The Myth of the Lost Cause and Political Immorality in Florida, 1865–1968". The Historian. 71 (1): 79–92. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.2008.00232.x. ISSN 0018-2370.