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George L. Stuart Jr. Political Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.
George L. Stuart Jr. was born on January 13, 1946 in Orlando to George L. and Georgia V. Stuart. He graduated from Edgewater High School in 1964 and from the University of Florida with a degree in Economics and Political Science in 1968. Stuart married Elisabeth Hixon of Pensacola in 1969, and a year later, he graduated from Harvard with a MBA. In 1972, he was elected Orlando City Commissioner for District 2. A Democrat, he ran successfully for the Florida State Senate for District 4 in a Campaign titled “Clean Team.” During his ten years in the Florida Senate, he served on the Senate Appropriations Committee and the Joint Committee of Information and Technology Resources and chaired the Senate Higher Education Committee and the Senate Committee on Natural Resources. In 1990, he ran unsuccessfully for Governor of the State of Florida.
In 1991, Stuart became Secretary and CEO of Florida's Department of Business and Professional Regulation. Four years later he went into partnership in the government relations business development and organizational consulting firm of Stuart/Cloud Enterprises Ltd.; he later formed his own management consulting firm George Stuart & Associates. From 1997-1999 he was a director of Leapfrog Smart Products Inc., and from 1999-2000 he was the CEO of DoctorSurf.com Inc. Since 2000 he has served as a director of GeoPharma Inc. Stuart's family business interests have included office supplies and farming; his affiliations include Kiwanis of Orlando, the Orlando Chamber of Commerce, the Boys Club and the Jaycees. Stuart has also served on the Board of Directors for the UCF Foundation, on the Florida State Resource Recovery Council, on Florida's Commission on the Aging as Vice-Chairman of the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority from 1976-1977 and as President of the Florida Citrus Sports Association from 1978-1979.
Series I: Campaigns, 1972-1990 shows how a campaign functions and builds coalitions to win an election. The bulk of materials concern the unsuccessful campaign for Governor in 1990.
Series II: Senate, 1978-1989 documents Stuart's work in the Florida Senate.
Series III: City Commissioner, 1972-1978 contains materials concerning Stuart's service as an Orlando City Commissioner.
Series IV: Personal, 1978-1989 holds materials concerning Stuart's business interests and some personal memorabilia.
Series I contains materials that document the elections in which George L. Stuart ran for public office. Advertising pamphlets and stickers, photographs, video and audiotapes, speeches and correspondence and news clippings all show how a political campaign functions. The largest group of materials concerns the 1990 election when Stuart ran for Governor.
Series II documents Stuart's work in Florida's Senate. It includes correspondence, reports and office files, which provide information on every subject in which the Senator was interested.
Series III holds a small number of materials concerning Stuart's years of service as an Orlando City Commissioner.
Series IV contains materials unrelated to Senator Stuart's political activities. It documents the Stuart family's farming and office supply businesses and holds family memorabilia.