11 Facts About Millard Caldwell

Millard Fillmore Caldwell was an American politician, lawyer, and jurist.

Millard Caldwell was the 29th governor of Florida and served in all three branches of government at various times in his life, including as a US representative and Florida Supreme Court justice.

Millard Caldwell was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Field Artillery, and was discharged on January 11,1919.

Millard Caldwell moved to Milton, Florida in 1924, practicing law there.

In 1926, Millard Caldwell began serving as prosecutor and county attorney of Santa Rosa County; in 1929, he was elected as a Democrat to the state House, where he was a member until 1932.

Millard Caldwell would enter the 1932 Democratic primary late for Florida's 3rd Congressional District.

Millard Caldwell would retire from Congress on January 1,1941, and move to Tallahassee where he would practice law along with operate a dairy and raise cattle.

One of the more colorful aspects of Millard Caldwell's term came on August 10,1945, during the surrender of Japan in World War II, when Millard Caldwell issued a proclamation urging bars and other alcohol-selling establishments to close in order to prevent a frenzy of drunken celebration in the streets.

On May 14,1953, Millard Caldwell was initiated as an honorary brother in the Alpha Phi chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi at the University of Florida.

Millard Caldwell is interred at Blackwood-Harwood Plantations Cemetery in Leon County in Tallahassee, Florida.

Millard Caldwell was a member of Kappa Sigma and Phi Alpha Delta.