James T. Magbee

James T. Magbee, known as J. T. Magbee, was a pioneer of Tampa, Florida, the town's first lawyer, and the federal collector of revenues at Tampa.[1][2] Magbee was a Florida State Constitutional Convention delegate, a Florida State Senator, a newspaper publisher and a judge of the Circuit Court.

After the war he became a "scalawag", a term of derision, when he changed affiliations from southern Democrats, to northern Republicans. Known for his public drunkenness, Tampa residents spread molasses and cornmeal on his unconscious body where it lay in the street and pigs reportedly ate off the sweet mixture along with some of the judge's clothes. Magbee is buried in downtown Tampa's Oaklawn Cemetery.[1][3]