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Lawton M. Chiles Center for Florida History
Dr. Canter Brown, Jr.
Board of Advisors
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Dr. Canter Brown, Jr. is a native of Fort
Meade, Florida. He earned B. A., J. D., and Ph.D
degrees in history from Florida State University. One of
Florida's leading historians, Dr. Brown is the author of many
works on Florida and southern history, including two
award-winning titles, Florida's Peace River Frontier
(Orlando, 1991) and Ossian Bingley Hart: Florida's Loyalist
Reconstruction Governor (Baton Rouge, 1997) for which he
earned the Florida Historical Society's Rembert W. Patrick Award
and the Certificate of Commendation of the American Association
of State and Local History, respectively. He is also the author
of Florida's Black Public Officials, 1867-1924
(Tuscaloosa, 1998); Fort Meade, 1849-1900 (Tuscaloosa,
1995); Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives: The Florida
Reminiscences of George Gillett Keen and Sarah Pamela Williams
(Columbia, 2000), with James M. Denham; Laborers in the
Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in
Florida, 1865-1895 (Gainesville, 2001), with Larry E.
Rivers. He is also co-author with Walter Manley of The
Supreme Court of Florida and Its Predecessor Courts, 1821-1917
(1998) and The Supreme Court of Florida, 1917-1972
(2007). Brown is also the author of a two volume history of Polk
County: In the Midst of All That Makes Life Worth Living":
Polk County to 1940 (Tallahassee, 2001), and most recently
None Could Have Richer Memories: Polk County Since 1940
(Tampa, 2004). He has taught in the history and political
science departments at Florida A&M University, and current
serves special assistant and Counsel to the President at Fort
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