Johnnie Byrd

Johnnie Byrd
Former Speaker Johnnie Byrd
92nd Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives
In office
November 19, 2002 – November 16, 2004
Preceded by Tom Feeney
Succeeded by Allan Bense
Member of the Florida House of Representatives
from the 62nd district
In office
November 1996 – November 2004
Preceded by Buddy Johnson[1]
Succeeded by Richard Glorioso[2]

Johnnie B. Byrd, Jr. (born February 8, 1951 in Brewton, Alabama) was a member of the Florida House of Representatives from District 62 representing Eastern Hillsborough County from 1996 through 2004. He was speaker of the House from 2002-2004. In 2004, Byrd made an unsuccessful run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by retiring Senator Bob Graham as a Republican candidate. He was fourth in a field of six with 68,982 votes, 5.9 percent of the vote. Mel Martinez won the primary and the general election. Prior public service included a spell as a school board member of the Brewton City School System in Brewton, Alabama.

He moved to Florida in 1988, and joined the law firm Trinkle, Redman, Moody, Swanson and Byrd. Byrd is currently the managing partner in Byrd & Barnhill, P.L., in Plant City.

He holds a B.S. in business administration from Auburn University and a J.D. from the University of Alabama School of Law.

Byrd is the founder and a member of the board of the Johnnie B. Byrd, Sr. Alzheimer’s Institute at the University of South Florida.

He is a past president of the Plant City Chamber of Commerce, a trustee of Evangelical University and Seminary and a member of the Plant City Rotary Club.

In 2012, Byrd ran for Thirteenth Circuit Court Judge, but lost to Mark R. Wolfe. Wolfe received 63.3% of the vote[3] to Byrd's 36.7%.[4]

Electoral history

DatePositionStatusOpponentResultVote shareTop-opponent vote share
1996State RepresentativeOpen-seatTroy Surrency (D)Elected65.06%[5]34.94%
1998State RepresentativeIncumbentJeff Johnson (D)Re-elected77.49%[6]22.52%
2000State RepresentativeIncumbentJohn Wayne Clark (D)Re-elected66.17%[7]33.83%
2002State RepresentativeIncumbentRan unopposedRe-elected100.00%[8]0%
2012Circuit Court JudgeIncumbentMark R. WolfeLost36.7%[9]63.3%
United States Senate Republican Primary election in Florida, 2004[10]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Mel Martínez 522,994 44.9%
Republican Bill McCollum 360,474 30.9%
Republican Doug Gallagher 158,360 13.6%
Republican Johnnie Byrd 68,982 5.9%
Republican Karen Saull 20,365 1.8%
Republican Sonya March 17,804 1.5%
Republican Larry Klayman 13,257 1.1%
Republican William Billy Kogut 3,695 0.3%
Total votes 1,165,931 100.0%

References

  1. ↑ https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=215734
  2. ↑ https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=5544
  3. ↑ https://ballotpedia.org/Mark_R._Wolfe
  4. ↑ https://ballotpedia.org/Johnnie_B._Byrd,_Jr.
  5. ↑ https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=215734
  6. ↑ https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=35682
  7. ↑ https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=32833
  8. ↑ https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=5544
  9. ↑ https://ballotpedia.org/Florida_judicial_elections,_2012_-_Circuit_Court
  10. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-10-03. Retrieved 2016-05-10.


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