George Gause Explained

George Gause
Death Date:	1986
Office:	Mayor of Bartow, Florida
Term Start:	1971
Term End:	1977

George Henry Gause, Jr. (died in 1986) was a mortician and politician from Florida.^[1] He served as mayor of Bartow, Florida.^[2] and also served as a commissioner.^[3] He was an African American and was named as a Great Floridian.^[4] He also served on the Polk County School Board.^[5]

Gause's father was a naval architect and had a funeral home in Wilmington, North Carolina before moving to Florida for health reasons.^[6] Gause Jr. went to Union Academy High School in Bartow.

He served two terms as Bartow's mayor^[7] from 1971 to 1977.

Gause was interviewed in 1975, for the Button Project.^[8]

There is a George H. Gause Elementary school located in Bartow, Florida, while two streets are named after him. The Martin Luther King Day celebration in Bartow honors him in its name. In 2002, he was inducted into the Polk County Public Schools Hall of Fame.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Book: Brown, Canter. None Can Have Richer Memories: Polk County, Florida, 1940-2000. September 28, 2005. University of Tampa Press. 9781879852365. Google Books.
2. Book: Studies, Joint Center for Political. Profiles of Black Mayors in America. June 1, 1977. The Center. 9780874850741. Google Books.
3. Web site: Florida Municipal Record. September 28, 1968. Municipal Record Publishing Company. Google Books.
4. Web site: Afro-American Encyclopedia. Martin. Rywell. Charles Harris. Wesley. September 28, 1974. Educational Book Publishers. Google Books.
5. Web site: Hall of Fame | Polk County Public Schools.
6. Web site: Our Founders | Our Story | Gause Funeral Home of Bartow. Gause Funeral Home.
7. Web site: FLOR500: Garden 221 - Xavier Cortada, Inc.. www.xaviercortada.com. 2019-09-29. 2019-09-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20190929001658/https://www.xaviercortada.com/page/FLOR500garden221. dead.
8. Web site: Interview with George H. Gause, July 26, 1975. ufdc.ufl.edu.