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Sidney Catts

Party Affiliation

Prohibition

Lt. Governor

None

First Lady

Alice May Campbell Catts

Florida Cabinet

Secretary of State:
Clay Crawford
(1902-1929)
Comptroller:
William V. Knott
(1912-1917);
Ernest Amos
(1917-1933)
Treasurer:
J. C. (John Christian) Luning
(1912-1928)
Commissioner of Agriculture:
William Allen McRae (1912-1923)
Attorney General:
Thomas F. West
(1913-1917);
Van Cicero Swearingen
(1917-1921)
Supt. of Public Instruction:
William N. Sheats (1913-1922)
Sidney Catts

Sidney Catts (1876-1936)

Twenty-second governor:
January 7, 1913 to January 2, 1917

Florida Photographic Collection:

Video:

Collections at the State Archives of Florida:

Other Repositories:

  • Papers, University of West Florida.

Published Materials:

  • Deal, John Ricard. “Sidney Johnston Catts: Stormy Petrel of Florida Politics.” MA Thesis: University of Florida, 1949.
  • Lord, Dorothy. “Sidney J. Catts and the Gubernatorial Election of 1916.” Apalachee (1963-1967).
  • Chance, Jean. “Sidney J. Catts and the Press: A Study of Editorial Coverage of the 1916 Governors Race.” MA Thesis: University of Florida, 1969.
  • Flynt, Wayne. Cracker Messiah: Governor Sidney J. Catts of Florida. Baton Rouge, La: Lousiiana State University, 1977.

Related Links:

  • Sidney Catts, Florida Governors' Portraits, Museum of Florida History.