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Listen: The Blues ProgramJim Fair and family members
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Accompanying note: "Jim Fair (center holding gun) of Tallahassee AKA James Farrior of a prominent Tampa family with some children. Jim owned an elaborate used variety store in downtown Tampa and advertised as the 'Poor Man's Friend.' He ran for various government offices and finally won as Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections. He took off all the dead voters who kept reelecting the 'courthouse gang' and registered all comers. An Annapolis graduate who was in many Naval engagements including suffering kamikaze attacks at Okinawa."
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