The walking senator lives on. Friday marked five years since the death of Lawton Chiles, whose heart gave out while he was exercising. He was 68 and just a few weeks short of finishing his second ...

State offices – from drivers license bureaus to state parks to food-stamp and unemployment offices – will be closed Wednesday in observance of the funeral of Gov. Lawton Chiles. Schools… ...

TALLAHASSEE | It is hard to imagine what "Walkin' Lawton" Chiles would make of today's campaign for U.S. Senate between Gov. Charlie Crist and former House Speaker Marco Rubio.

He wrote often about Lawton Chiles as a reporter in the Miami Herald's capital bureau from 1990 to 1995, and as political editor for the Times in 1998. * * * Walkin' Lawton . By John Dos Passos Coggin ...

"Walkin'" Lawton Chiles was born in 1930 and raised in Lakeland; he received his bachelor's and law degrees from the University of Florida, in between serving as an Army artillery officer in Korea.

Chiles earned the nickname “Walkin’ Lawton” when, as an unknown state legislator from Lakeland, he walked the length of Florida during his campaign for the U.S. Senate in 1970.

TALLAHASSEE — Former U.S. Sen. Lawton Chiles is ready to run for governor — the only thing missing is the formal announcement.“We’re going to do something by Friday morning,” a grinning ...

He was “Walkin’ Lawton.” He was the wily old “he-coon.”But the nickname that fit Gov. Lawton Chiles best was “Florida’s Grandpa,” the politician that made the health and happiness ...

Gov. Lawton Chiles, the folksy Floridian whose political career spanned four decades, apparently suffered a heart attack and died Saturday while working out on a cycling machine on the grounds of ...

The stunt earned Chiles the nickname “Walkin Lawton” and he served three terms in Washington. “She was just a live wire. A person who wanted others to succeed,” said Charlie Reed, ...

The widow of former Gov. Lawton Chiles passed away Nov. 8 at the age of 84. She was remembered by friends, associates and her grandchildren as a remarkable creative woman of faith, optimism and grace.