Bob Martinez
| Bob Martinez | |
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| Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy | |
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In office March 28, 1991 – January 20, 1993 |
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| President | George H. W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Bill Bennett |
| Succeeded by | John Walters (Acting) |
| 40th Governor of Florida | |
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In office January 6, 1987 – January 8, 1991 |
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| Lieutenant | Bobby Brantley |
| Preceded by | Wayne Mixson |
| Succeeded by | Lawton Chiles |
| Mayor of Tampa | |
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In office October 1, 1979 – July 16, 1986 |
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| Preceded by | Bill Poe |
| Succeeded by | Sandra Freedman |
| Personal details | |
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December 25, 1934 Tampa, Florida, U.S. |
| Political party |
Democratic (Before 1983) Republican (1983–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Jane Marino |
| Children | 2 |
| Education |
University of Tampa (BS) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (MS) |
Robert "Bob" Martinez (born December 25, 1934) is a retired American politician who served as the 40th Governor of Florida from 1987 to 1991; he was the first person of Spanish ancestry to be elected to the state's top office. Prior to that, he was the mayor of Tampa from 1979 to 1986.
Bob Martinez was born in Tampa, Florida on December 25, 1934, the only child of Serafin Martinez and Ida Carreno Martinez. His grandparents were Spanish immigrants who had come to Tampa from the province of Asturias to find work in the Spanish/Cuban/Italian neighborhood of Ybor City. Bob Martinez's mother was a seamstress and his father was a waiter at the Columbia Restaurant in Ybor City, and the family lived in Ybor City and West Tampa during his youth.
Martinez graduated from Jefferson High School in 1953 and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Tampa in 1957. For several years, he taught civics at local high schools. He went back to college and earned a master's degree in labor and industrial relations at the University of Illinois in 1964, then returned to Tampa and worked as a business labor consultant and an economics instructor at the University of Tampa.
In 1965, Martinez was named the executive director of the Hillsborough Classroom Teachers Association (HCTA), the local teachers' union in Hillsborough County. In 1968, the HCTA joined the Florida Education Association's statewide teacher strike in support of more education funding and collective bargaining rights for teachers. Though the labor action was seemingly unsuccessful in the short term, its goals were gradually met over the following few years through court and legislative actions. In 1971, Martinez and the HCTA negotiated the first union contract for Hillsborough County teachers.
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