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1940 - 1946. Rank. Captain. Battles/wars. World War II. Vincent John Whibbs Sr. KSG (February 8, 1920 – May 30, 2006) was an American automobile dealer, politician and businessman who served as the 54th mayor of Pensacola from 1978 to 1991. Whibbs was also very involved with many projects and groups in his hometown of Pensacola, Florida.
54453673. Website. pnj.com. The Pensacola News Journal is a daily morning newspaper serving Escambia and Santa Rosa counties in Florida. It is Northwest Florida 's most widely read daily. The News Journal is owned by Gannett, a national media holding company that owns newspapers such as USA Today and the Arizona Republic, among others.
NewspaperCat: Catalog of Digital Historical Newspapers. Gainesville. University of Central Florida Libraries. "Research Guides: Florida News". Orlando. Penny Abernathy, "The Expanding News Desert: Florida", Usnewsdeserts.com, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Survey of local news existence and ownership in 21st century) University ...
The history of Pensacola, Florida, begins long before the Spanish claimed founding of the modern city in 1698. The area around present-day Pensacola was inhabited by Native American peoples thousands of years before the historical era. The historical era begins with the arrival of Spanish explorers in the 16th century.
Pensacola, Florida. / 30.42139°N 87.21722°W / 30.42139; -87.21722. Pensacola ( / ˌpɛnsəˈkoʊlə / PEN-sə-KOH-lə) is a city in the Florida Panhandle. It is the county seat and only city of Escambia County and one of two municipalities that are incorporated, the other being Century. [ 5] At the 2020 census, the population was ...
The United Network for Organ Sharing ( UNOS) is a non-profit scientific and educational organization that administers the only Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network ( OPTN) in the United States, established ( 42 U.S.C. § 274) by the U.S. Congress in 1984 by Gene A. Pierce, founder of United Network for Organ Sharing.
Paul Hill was born in Miami, Florida, on February 6, 1954, to Oscar Jennings Hill, an airline pilot, and his wife Louise. He was raised in Coral Gables, Florida. At the age of 17, Hill was charged with the assault of his father when his parents attempted to get him treatment for his drug problem. Hill said he experienced a religious conversion ...
This is a list of mayors of Pensacola, Florida. The mayor is the chief executive of the Pensacola city government. This list is from 1820 through present day, and includes Spanish, Confederate and United States mayors. In 1878, Salvador T. Pons, the first African–American mayor of Pensacola, was elected. In 1885, the city's charter was revoked by governor Edward A. Perry, replacing it with a ...