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Claude Roy Kirk, Jr.

Party Affiliation

Republican

Lt. Governor

Ray C. Osborne (1969-1971)

First Lady

Erika Mattfeld Kirk

Florida Cabinet

Secretary of State:: Tom Adams
(1961-1971)
Comptroller:: Fred O. Dickinson
(1965-1975)
Treasurer & Insurance Commissioner:: Broward Williams
(1965-1971)
Commissioner of Agriculture:: Doyle Conner
(1961-1991)
Attorney General:: Earl Faircloth
(1965-1971)
Supt. of Public Instruction/ Commissioner of Education:: Floyd Thomas Christian
(1965-1969)

Claude Kirk

Claude Roy Kirk, Jr. (1926-)

Thirty-sixth governor:
January 3, 1967 to January 5, 1971

Florida Photographic Collection:

Images related to Claude Kirk.

Collections at the State Archives of Florida:

Other Repositories:

Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, University of Florida.
- Interview FP74

Published Materials:

Kirk, Claude. A Man and His Words: The First Book About Claude Kirk, Jr. Governor of the State of Florida. Tallahassee: Executive Press, 1968.
Desmond, William James. “A Case Study of the Governor’s War on Crime.” MA Thesis: Florida State University, 1967.
Kallina, Edmund. Claude Kirk and the Politics of Confrontation. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 1993.

Related Links:

Claude Kirk, Florida Governors' Portraits, Museum of Florida History.
Claude Kirk, the Florida Governor's Mansion.

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