James T. Hargrett Jr. (born July 31, 1942) is a former state legislator in
Florida. He served in the
Florida House of Representatives
The Florida House of Representatives is the lower house of the Florida Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Florida, the Florida Senate being the upper house. Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution of Florida, adopted ...
from 1982 to 1992 (63rd district). He also served in the Florida Senate from 1993 to 2000.
In 1998, Hargrett was one of several African-American Democrats in the Florida Legislature to endorse Republican
Jeb Bush for Governor.
He is a descendant of
Amos Hargrett.
See also
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Andrew Hargrett
Andrew Joshua Hargrett, Sr. (1879–1932) was a pioneering African-American educator who organized Shadeville Elementary School in 1909, the first school for black people in Wakulla County, Florida. In the late 1920s, he also led the crusade to es ...
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Doris Hargrett Clack
Doris Hargrett Clack (March 24, 1928 – ) was an African-American librarian and expert on cataloging and classification. She was a professor of library science at Florida State University for 23 years and did extensive scholarly work on the li ...
References
1942 births
Living people
Democratic Party members of the Florida House of Representatives
Politicians from Tampa, Florida
African-American state legislators in Florida
Morehouse College alumni
Atlanta University alumni
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American people
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