18 Facts About Syd Herlong

Syd Herlong attended the public schools of Sumter and Lake counties and graduated from Leesburg High School in Leesburg, Florida.

Syd Herlong attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he was a member of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity, and graduated in 1930.

Syd Herlong was admitted to The Florida Bar in 1930 and started his law practice in Leesburg.

Syd Herlong was elected county judge of Lake County, Florida, and served from 1937 to 1949.

Syd Herlong served as city attorney of Leesburg from 1946 to 1948.

Syd Herlong held a reserve commission as captain in the US Army and was called to active duty in the Judge Advocate General's Department in August 1941.

Syd Herlong was discharged in 1942 due to physical disability.

Syd Herlong served two enlistments in the Florida State Guard.

Syd Herlong served as president of the Florida State Baseball League in 1947 and 1948.

Syd Herlong was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the nine succeeding Congresses.

In 1959, Syd Herlong introduced a bill to establish a federally funded Freedom Academy that would counter-act foreign countries' Communist propaganda.

On January 10,1963, at the request of constituent Patricia Nordman, Herlong read into the Congressional Record a list of 45 goals of communism from the book The Naked Communist by W Cleon Skousen.

Syd Herlong voted against the Civil Rights Acts of 1957,1960,1964, and 1968 as well as the 24th Amendment to the US Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Syd Herlong was not a candidate for reelection in 1968 to the Ninety-first Congress.

In 1985, Syd Herlong formally changed his party affiliation to Republican.

In 1967, while Syd Herlong was still a Congressman, his portrait was painted by renowned portraitist Everett Raymond Kinstler.

Syd Herlong died December 27,1995, at his home in Leesburg, Florida.

Syd Herlong was married and had four daughters, Sydney, Dorothy, Mary Alice, and Margaret.