Faye B. Culp Explained

Faye B. Culp
State House:Florida
State:Florida
District:57th
Term Start:2002
Term End:2010
Predecessor:Chris Hart IV[1]
Successor:Dana Young[2]
Term Start1:1994
Term End1:1998
Predecessor1:Ron Glickman[3]
Successor1:Chris Hart IV[4]
Birth Date:6 December 1939
Spouse:Jim Culp
Profession:Marketing Executive
Party:Republican

Faye B. Culp is a retired educator and Republican politician who served as the District 57 Representative in the Florida House of Representatives. She was the first female Republican to serve as Majority Whip in the Florida House.

Representative Culp was born in Kilmichael, Mississippi on December 6, 1939. She graduated from the Mississippi University for Women in 1961 with a Bachelor of Science degree in education. She taught school from 1961 to 1966 in Georgia. She worked for IBM from 1966 to 1968, and moved to Florida in 1968. She sold real estate from 1974 to 1976. From 1988 to 1992, she served as a Hillsborough County School Board member. In 1993, she received a Master of Arts degree from the University of South Florida. She was first elected to the Florida House in 1994 and served a second term. She bid unsuccessfully for the Florida Senate in 2000. She was again elected to the House in 2002 and to three successive terms in the Tampa, Florida area. In 2008, she received a Ph.D. from Argosy University. Rep. Culp was term-limited out of office at the end of her fourth term and endorsed Dana Young in the Republican Primary. Ms. Young won the District 57 seat in the general election. Culp is one of the founders of Maggie's List.[5]

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  1. Web site: Our Campaigns - FL State House 57 Race - Nov 05, 2002.
  2. Web site: Our Campaigns - FL State House 057 Race - Nov 04, 2008.
  3. Web site: Our Campaigns - FL State House 57 Race - Nov 03, 1992.
  4. Web site: Our Campaigns - FL State House 57 Race - Nov 05, 1996.
  5. Web site: Maggie's List. Women's Political Action Committee. Who is Maggie's List? . Maggieslist.org . 2015-06-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150620025834/http://maggieslist.org/who-is-maggies-list.php . 2015-06-20 .