Milton H. Mabry

Milton Harvey Mabry (born Pickens County, Alabama, June 17, 1851; died Tampa, Florida, March 3, 1919) was an American lawyer, politician, and judge. He served as both the eighth Lieutenant Governor of Florida and Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court.

Mabry's father was a merchant; the family moved from Alabama to DeSoto Parish, Louisiana in 1856 and then in 1860 to Lee County, Mississippi. Around 1868 he entered the University of Mississippi at Oxford, transferring to the law school of Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee around 1870, graduating in 1872.

Returning to Mississippi, Mabry served a term as the mayor of Tupelo. He met fellow lawyer William Adams Hocker there and in 1879, in a period of ill health, he followed Hocker to Leesburg, Florida, to become his law partner. In 1882 Mabry served as a state representative from Sumter County. In 1884 Mabry was picked as a running mate by gubernatorial candidate Edward A. Perry, and after a successful campaign Mabry served as lieutenant governor from 1885 to 1889. The 1885 Florida constitution abolished the office of lieutenant governor, so Mabry was the last to serve until the office was revived in the 1968 constitution.

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