Van B. Poole

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

Van B. Poole
Florida House of Representatives Minority Whip
In office 1975–1977
Member of the Florida House of Representatives from the 30th district
In office 1971–1979
Florida State Senator from Broward County
In office 1979–1983
Personal details
Born	July 5, 1935 Jackson, Madison County Tennessee, USA
Political party	Republican
Children	Cynthia Lynne, Kimberly Anne, Mark Devereaux, and Katherine Kelley
Residence	Fort Lauderdale Broward County, Florida
Military service
Branch/service	United States Army Reserve

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

From 1953 to 1961, Poole served in the United States Army Reserve. 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. Cramer of St. Petersburg, went down to defeat. 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.

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.[3]

He resides in Fort Lauderdale in Broward County, Florida

References

1. "Florida House of Representatives". Myfloridahouse.gov. Retrieved 2011-12-12.
2. "Ronald Reagan: Nomination of Van B. Poole To Be a Member of the National Advisory Council on Educational Research and Improvement". Presidency.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2011-12-12.
3. "Dutko World Wide :: Poole". Dutko Worldwide. Retrieved 2010-12-15.