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Mayor Rice
RESOLUTION 018 -2012
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA
DESIGNATING THE SHERIFF'S SUBSTATION AT
MARATHON, FLORIDA AS THE "JOHN M.
SPOTTSWOOD SUBSTATION".
WHEREAS, John M. Spottswood was born in Key West, Florida on June 17, 1920; and
WHEREAS, he attended public schools in Key West during his early teens and then
entered Riverside Military Academy from which he graduated in 1938; and
WHEREAS, for seven years he was a Key West reporter for the Miami Daily News and
an agent for the New York Life Insurance Company; and
WHEREAS, in 1940 he accepted a position as purchasing agent at the Key West Naval
Station and two years later he resigned and entered the United States Army as a Second
Lieutenant; and
WHEREAS, in 1945, after serving in WWII, John Spottswood received an honorable
discharge from the Army as a Captain and returned to Key West to launch his business career
and later became the largest individual land owner in Key West and established the first radio
station in Key West; and
WHEREAS, in 1952, with the aid of his wife Mary, he was elected Sheriff of Monroe
County; and
WHEREAS, his fellow sheriffs elected him as the first chairman of the Florida Sheriff's
Boy's Ranch Board of Trustees and for five consecutive terms he was chairman of the Florida
Sheriff's Association Board of Directors; and
WHEREAS, he was elected Sheriff of Monroe County for three successive terms, and in
1963, while serving in that capacity, he won the Democratic nomination for the 41st Senatorial
District, serving all major committees; and
WHEREAS, it was during Senator Spottswood's term as Sheriff that law enforcement
was extended out into the Keys , and under his leadership the first substation outside the City of
Key West was opened at Plantation Key, and a second substation in Marathon was created; and
WHEREAS, the City of Key West and the County of Monroe became better places to
live because Mr. Spottswood contributed so much to make it so, and he served his country in the
military, his state in the Senate, and his community as Sheriff; and
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WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County, Florida, hereby
desires to designate the Sheriff's Substation at Marathon, Florida in honor of the late John M.
Spottswood; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF
MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA that the Board hereby designates the current substation at
Marathon, Florida as the "JOHN M SPOTTSWOOD SUBSTATION" and hereby directs that the
name be established at the building and appropriately in County records.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County,
Florida at a regular meeting of the Board held on the -k'qt.day of January, 2012.
Mayor Rice Yes
Mayor Pro Tem Wigington Yes
Commissioner Neugent Yes
Commissioner Murphy Yes_
Commissioner Carruthers Yes
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Attest: Danny L. Kolhage, Clerk
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