Caulie Frank Whitehead (July 2, 1892 – May 16, 1976) was an American politician. He was
Mayor of
Jacksonville, Florida, from 1945 to 1949. He was a member of the
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History
Whitehead ran for Mayor of Jacksonville in 1945. He defeated the incumbent
John T. Alsop, Jr., who had been mayor for eighteen years from 1923 to 1937 and from 1941 to 1945, in the Democratic primary; as there was no general election, Whitehead became mayor. Among his initiatives was a plan to ease the city's growing traffic problems by building a new bridge out of
pontoons over the
St. Johns River
The St. Johns River ( es, Río San Juan) is the longest river in the U.S. state of Florida and its most significant one for commercial and recreational use. At long, it flows north and winds through or borders twelve counties. The drop in eleva ...
. This plan never came to fruition, but influenced the later construction of the conventional
Fuller Warren Bridge. Whitehead was defeated in the 1949 mayoral race by the upstart
W. Haydon Burns
William Haydon Burns (March 17, 1912 – November 22, 1987) was an American politician. He was Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida from 1949 to 1965, and served as the 35th Governor of Florida from 1965 to 1967.
Early life
Born in Chicago, Illinois ...
, who successfully courted
African-American voters to overcome Whitehead. In Whitehead's later years he owned and ran a room-and-boarding house in Jacksonville. He died in 1976.
References
External links
Political Graveyard
Mayors of Jacksonville, Florida
Florida Democrats
1976 deaths
1892 births
20th-century American politicians
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