Florida's 27th Senate District elects one member of the

Florida Senate The Florida Senate is the upper house of the Florida Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Florida, the Florida House of Representatives being the lower house. Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution of Florida, adopted ...

. The district comprises portions of Lee County. Its current Senator is

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Ray Rodrigues Raymond Wesley Rodrigues (born April 17, 1970) is a Republican member of the Florida Senate, representing parts of Lee County since 2020. Previously, he served four terms in the Florida House of Representatives, representing southern and coasta ...

Senators

*W. J. Turner, 1865-1866 *F. B. Hogan, 1879 *A. A. Robinson, 1881 *M. G. Fortner, 1883 *J. W. Whiddon, 1885-1887, 1893-1895, 1901–1903 *Ziba King, 1889-1891 *W. H. Fuller, 1897-1899 *Joseph H. Humphries, 1905-1912 *Frank M. Cooper, 1913-1915, 1921 *A. M. Wilson, 1917 *A. W. Wilson, 1918-1919 *E. J. Etheredge, 1923-1927 *W. D. Bell, 1929-1931 *H. G. Murphy, 1933-1939 *William Cliett, 1941-1943 *Wilbur C. King, 1945 *Jeff Flake, 1947 *(Not represented, 1948 ex) *James W. Moore, 1949-1951 *Doyle E. Carlton Jr., 1953-1959, 1965 *G. W. (Dick) Williams, 1961-1963 * Ben Hill Griffin Jr., 1967 (D) *

Alan Trask William Alan Trask (June 26, 1933 – January 9, 2019) was an American politician in the state of Florida. Trask was born in Bartow, Florida. He attended the University of Florida and Florida Southern College. He was elected to the State Sen ...

, 1969-1971 (D) *Philip D. Lewis, 1973-1981 (D) * Tom Lewis, 1982 (R) *William G. "Doc" Myers, 1983-2000 (R) *

Ken Pruitt Ken Pruitt (born January 24, 1957) is an American politician who served as a member of the Florida Senate. A Republican, he represented the 28th District from 2000 to 2009, which included portions of Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, Palm Beach ...

, 2001-2002 (R) *

Dave Aronberg Dave Aronberg (born May 4, 1971) is the State Attorney for Palm Beach County, Florida and a former member of the Florida Senate. He was elected to the Senate in 2002 as its youngest member and served for eight years. He is a Democrat. Prior to s ...

, 2003-2010 (D) *

Lizbeth Benacquisto Lizbeth Benacquisto is a Republican politician from Florida who served as a member of the Florida Senate from 2010 to 2020. She was a candidate in the 2014 special election for Florida's 19th congressional district. History Benacquisto was born ...

, 2011-2012 (R) *

Jeff Clemens Jeff Clemens (born September 8, 1970, in Detroit, Michigan) is a Democratic politician from Florida. He represented parts of Palm Beach County in the Florida Senate from 2012 until his resignation in 2017, after acknowledging an affair with a l ...

, 2013-2016 (D) *

, 2017-2020 (R) *

, 2020–present (R)

References

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