Item M01BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY
Meeting Date: January 18,2012 Division: BOCC
Bulk Item: Yes No XX Department: Mayor David Rice
Staff Contact /Phone #: Tamara Lamarche, X6000
PH: 305 289-6000
AGENDA ITEM WORDING: Approval of 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.
ITEM BACKGROUND: John M. Spottwood grew LIP in Key West, served as the Monroe County
Sheriff for three consecutive terms, from 1953 to 1963, and served the 41" District, which included
Monroe County at the time, as State Senator from 1963-1965. Under his leadership as Sheriff, he
extended law enforcement presence in the Keys outside of Key West, opening the Plantation Key
Substation as the first Sheriff's Substation outside of Key West in 1959, and opening the Marathon
substation in 1963.
PREVIOUS RELEVANT BOCC ACTION,-
(70NTRACT/AGREEMENT CHANGES:
STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS:
TOTAL COST: INDIRECT COST: BUDGETED: Yes No
DIFFERENTIAL OF LOCAL PREFERENCE:
COST TO COUNTY: SOURCE OF FUNDS:
REVENUE PRODUCING: Yes No AMOUNT PER MONTH Year
APPROVED BY: County Atty XX OMB/Purchasing _ Risk Management
DOCUMENTATION:
DISPOSITION:
Revised 7/09
Included XX Not Required
AGENDA ITEM #
Mayor Rice
RESOLUTION - 2012
A RESOLUTION of THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS S of MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA
DESIGNATING THE SIIER.IE "S SUBSTATION AT
MARATHON, FLORIDA AS THE "JOHN M.
PO T � OOD STUBS? , TIOA
WHEREAS, John M. Spottswood was born in Ivey west, Florida on ,Tune 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 'Nest Naval
Station and two years later he resigned and entered the United Mates Army as a Second
Lieutenant; and
WHEREAS, in 1945, after searing in WWII, John Spottswood received an honorable
discharge from the Army as a Captain and returned to Ivey 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 Sherifrs
Boy's Punch 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 41" 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 Ivey, and a second substation in Marathon was created; and
WHEREAS, the City of Key Nest and the County of Monroe became better places to
live because Mr. Spottswood contributed so much to make it so, and he seared his country in the
military, his state in the Senate, and his commuxtity as Sheriff; and
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WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County, Florida, hereby
desires to designate the Sheriffs 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 ",_IOHN M. SPOTTSWOOD SUB T,4TIOA " and hereby directs that the
narne 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 191h day, of January, 2012.
Mayor Rice
Mayor Pro Tem wigington
Commissioner Neugent
Commissioner Murphy
Commissioner Carruthers
(SEAL)
Attest: Danny L. Kolhage, Clerk
By.
Deputy Clerk.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
F MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA
By:
David P. Rice, Mayor
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Past Monroe County Sheriff's Include:
,F Dupont Francis Knight
188 -1893 1893 1901
1905 - 1939
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Richard Hicks Clements Jaycocks Cleveland Niles
1901 - 1995 1999 - 1917 1926 - 1933
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Karl Thompson Berlin Sawyer Jack Spottswood Merry Haskins Reace Thompson
1933- 1941 1941 - 1953 1953 • 1963 1963 1965 1955 1969
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Bobby Brown Wiill'iam Freeman J Allison DeFoor Richard Roth
1969 - 197'7 1977 - 1989 1989 - 1999 1999 - 2009
History and Chronology of the Sheriff's Office
The Office of Sheriff is one of the oldest offices known to the common law system. Historians generally
agree the origin of the first sheriff's office was 1,000 years ago, during the Norman Conquest of England.
Some date it back even farther and profess that the origins of the office of Sheriff actually stems from the
Roman Council and the Earl or Count of that council was the prototype for the modern-day sheriff.
Historians do. however, agree the origin of the word ;sheriff; evolved from two Saxon words. ;Scyre;, the
Saxon word for county and the word ;Rene; the Saxon word for keeper. The pronunciation of the two
words evolved into the modern word ;sheriff;: signifying county -keeper.
There have been 35 Sheriff's of Monroe County since it was incorporated in 1823 including;
Lemuel Otis, 1829
P.B. Prior, 1830
Robert R. Fletcher 1832-40
Benjamin A. Vun, 1841
i Samuel T, Vail, 1842
• B.K. Kerr, 1842 - 1844
Edwin Page, 1844
John Coslin 1845-47
John V. Ogden 1847-49
Robert Clark 1849-58
Edgar A. Coste 185E-61
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Dudley. Fred R., 1987-19921 (I R)
Silver, Ronald A. (Ron), 1993-200? (D)
Vi llalobos, J. Alex. 2.003-2006 (R)
District 39
Campbell, Ferrin C., 1963
McLaughlin, Maurice, 1965
Stolzenhurg, Chester W. (Chet), 1967-1971 (R)
Pettigrew, Richard A., 1973-1974 (D)
Holloway, Vernon G., 1975-1990 (D)
Renick, Richard R., 1991-1982 (D)
Plummer, Lawrence H„ 1983-1992 (D)
Gasas, Roberto, 1993-2000 (R)
Garcia, Rudy, 2001-200? (R)
Bullard, Larcenia J., 2003-2006 (D)
District 40
Davis, Hayward H., 1963-19 5
Gong. Edmond J., 1967-197 l (D)
Gruber, Don J., 1973-1974 (R)
Renick, Richard R., 1975-1978 (D)
Andersen, Dick, 1979-1982 (D)
Fox, Roberta, 1983-1986 (D)
Lehnnen, Dexter, 1987-1988 (R)
Soute, Javier D., 1959-1992 (R)
Janes, Daryl L., 1993- -002 (D)
Garcia, Rudy, 20 3-�006 (R)
District 41
Spottswood. John M., 1963-1965
Havcrf field, Rc hert M., 1967-1971 (D)
District 42
Cleveland, Mack N., Jr., 1963-1965
eissenbc rn, Leo, 1967-1971 (D)
District 43
Hollahan, George L., Jr., 1963-1965
Shevin, Rohert L., 1967-1969 (D)
Lewis, Gerald A., 1971 (D)
District 44
Hollahan, George L., Jr., 19+67-1971 (D)
District 45
Spencer, Tom, 1967 (D)
Myers, Kenneth M., 1969-1971 t. D y
District 46
Poston, Ralph R., 1967-1971 (D)
District 47
Fincher, Dick, 1967-1971 (D)
District 48
Stonc, Richard B. (Dick), 1967-1969 (D)
Graham. Robert, 1971 (D)
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