David L. "Dave" Barrett (March 22, 1931May 14, 1999) was a businessman and politician in the state of Florida. He was born in New York and moved to Florida in 1963. He was an alumnus of the Rochester Business Institute, Kettering University, and

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and became a businessman. He served in the

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for district 44 from 1974 to 1980 as a member of the Democratic Party.

Personal life and death

Barrett was married to Dorothy H. (née Tuite) Barrett on September 8, 1956, with whom he had six children. He died of progressive supranuclear palsy in Melbourne, Florida on May 14, 1999, at the age of 68.

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