Frank Whitehead (American politician) explained

C. Frank Whitehead
Office:36th Mayor of Jacksonville
Term Start:1945
Term End:1949
Predecessor:John T. Alsop, Jr.
Successor:W. Haydon Burns
Birth Date:2 July 1892
Birth Place:Athens, Georgia, US
Death Place:Jacksonville, Florida, US
Party:Democrat

Caulie Frank Whitehead (July 2, 1892 – May 16, 1976) was an American politician who served as the mayor of Jacksonville, Florida, from 1945 to 1949. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

History

Whitehead ran for Mayor of Jacksonville in 1945. He defeated the incumbent John T. Alsop, Jr., who had been mayor for eighteen years from 1923 to 1937 and from 1941 to 1945, in the Democratic primary; as there was no general election, Whitehead became mayor.[1] Among his initiatives was a plan to ease the city's growing traffic problems by building a new bridge out of pontoons over the St. Johns River. This plan never came to fruition, but influenced the later construction of the conventional Fuller Warren Bridge.[2] Whitehead was defeated in the 1949 mayoral race by the upstart W. Haydon Burns, who successfully courted African-American voters to overcome Whitehead.[3] In Whitehead's later years he owned and ran a room-and-boarding house in Jacksonville.[4] He died in 1976.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Voters Approve Loan On Airport. The Miami News. June 20, 1945. Associated Press. May 31, 2011. January 25, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200125163322/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zysyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=w-cFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2774,1071470&dq=frank-whitehead+alsop&hl=en. dead.
  2. News: Floating some ideas about Wonderwood. . May 17, 1997 . May 31, 2011.
  3. Book: Bartley, Abel A.. Keeping the Faith: Race, Politics, and Social Development in Jacksonville, Florida, 1940-1970. 2000. Greenwood Publishing Group . 0-313-31035-1. 59–60. May 31, 2011.
  4. Web site: Life Story: About Bruce Hopkins . Bruce . Hopkins . Bruce's Food and More Blog . 28 September 2012 . October 21, 2012.
  5. Web site: Supermarket Checkout, Jacksonville, and also Mayor Whitehead . www.jaxhistory.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101205161041/http://jaxhistory.com/Jacksonville%20Story/Picture%20of%20Supermarket,%20Checkout%20at%20Setzer's.html . 2010-12-05.