MEMORANDUM: Flags at Half-Staff for former Florida and United States Congressman Sam Gibbons

MEMORANDUM

TO:                  Kris Parks

                        Division of Facilities and Operations Maintenance

                        Lori Hudson, Communications Director

                        Hillsborough County

                        Ali Glisson, Public Affairs Director

                        City of Tampa

                                               

FROM:            Governor Rick Scott

                        By and through Jesse Panuccio, General Counsel

DATE:            October 19, 2012

RE:                  Flags at Half-Staff

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On Wednesday, October 10, 2012, former Florida and United States Congressman Sam Gibbons passed away.  In 1944, at age 24, Gibbons served as a captain in the 101^st Airborne, and parachuted into Normandy as part of the D-Day invasion.  Congressman Gibbons was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in 1952, the Florida Senate in 1958, and to the United States House of Representatives in 1962, where he served until his retirement in 1996.  He was influential in bolstering the start of the University of South Florida, the Southwest Florida Water Management District, and our country’s first Head Start Program.  As a mark of respect for the memory of Congressman Gibbons, I hereby direct the flags of the United States and the State of Florida to be flown at half-staff at the County Courthouse of Hillsborough County, Florida, the City Hall of Tampa, Florida, and at the State Capitol in Tallahassee, Florida, from sunrise to sunset on Saturday, October 20, 2012.

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