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Van B. Poole

Van B. Poole
Chair of the Florida Republican Party
In office 1989–1993
Preceded by	Jeanie Austin
Succeeded by	Tom Slade Jr.
Member of the Florida Senate from the 30th district
In office 1978–1982
Preceded by	Jon C. Thomas
Succeeded by	Tom McPherson
Member of the Florida House of Representatives from the 84th district
In office 1972–1978
Preceded by	George L. Caldwell
Succeeded by	Thomas J. Bush
Member of the Florida House of Representatives from the 88th district
In office 1970–1972
Preceded by	Joseph M. Martinez Jr.
Succeeded by	Randy Avon
Minority Whip of the Florida House of Representatives
In office 1974–1976
Personal details
Born	(1935-07-05) July 5, 1935 (age 89) Jackson, Madison County Tennessee, USA
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Donna Maggert
Children	Cynthia Lynne, Kimberly Anne, Mark Devereaux, and Katherine Kelley
Residence(s)	Fort Lauderdale Broward County, Florida
Alma mater	Memphis State University (BS)
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch/service	United States Army Reserve
Years of service	1953–1961

Van B. Poole (born July 5, 1935) is a former Republican politician from Florida.

Born in Jackson, the seat of Madison County in western Tennessee, he graduated in 1958 from Memphis State UniversityinMemphis, Tennessee. He relocated to Florida in 1963.^[1][2]

From 1953 to 1961, Poole served in the United States Army Reserve.^[3] From 1971 to 1979, he was a member of the Florida House of Representatives from Broward County in south Florida. He was elected to the state House in the same election in which his fellow Republicans, Governor Claude R. Kirk, Jr., and U.S. Representative William C. CramerofSt. Petersburg, lost. For two years, he was the House Minority Whip. From 1979 to 1983, he was a member of the Florida Senate. In 1982, he received 38.3 percent of the general election vote in his challenge to Democratic U.S. Senator Lawton Chiles, who won his third and final term in the body. Chiles was first elected in 1970, when he defeated Cramer. Poole ran for Treasurer of Florida in 1986, but lost to Bill Gunter.^[4]

Under the Republican Governor Bob Martinez, Poole was the director of the Florida Department of Business Regulation. From 1989 to 1993, he chaired the Florida Republican Party. In 2001, then Governor Jeb Bush appointed him to the Federal Judicial Nomination Commission, headed by former Governor Martinez.

Poole spent twenty years as an insurance executive with Krieg Kostas & Poole and is currently a lobbyist with Dutko Poole McKinley.^[5]

He resides in Fort Lauderdale in Broward County, Florida

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