Florida! Florida! Florida!: Presidential elections in the Sunshine State with Boyd Murphree, PhD

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Beginning in 1876 with the contested Hayes-Tildon election through the Bush-Gore battle in 2000 and the Trump-Clinton contest in 2016, Florida has played a crucial role in determining the outcome of presidential elections.

Boyd Murphree, Political Papers Archivist for Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries, will talk about Florida’s role in some of the nation’s presidential primaries and general elections from 1876 to 2016 and present images illustrating those elections from UF’s large and diverse holdings of presidential election documents, publications, and artifacts.

Date and time: Wednesday, October 16 at 7 p.m.; free with registration

In-person registration: https://mathesonmuseum.networkforgood.com/events/72065- presidential-elections-in-the-sunshine-state

Zoom registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0s-gBdllQ52FGdheFVJqaQ

Boyd Murphree, Ph.D.

Boyd Murphree is the Political Papers Archivist for Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries. He received his PhD in history from Florida State University in 2007. During 1998–2012, he was an archivist with the State Archives of Florida in Tallahassee. Murphree left the state archives in 2012 to work as an assistant editor with the Papers of Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois. He has been at UF since 2016. In 2020, the University Press of Florida published The Governors of Florida, a history of Florida’s governors from 1821 to 2018, which Murphree coedited. The book won the Florida Book Awards top honor for Florida non-fiction in 2020.

This program is sponsored in part by Florida Humanities; Visit Gainesville/Alachua County, FL; The City of Gainesville; and by the Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council of the Arts and Culture, and the State of Florida.