Friends, opponents remember Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles 25 years after his death Chiles famously remarked that “the old he-coon walks just before the light of day” — and the He Coon label stuck.

In this week’s Florida Time, we recount how Lawton Chiles walked 1,000 miles and Bob Graham worked 100 jobs to etch their names into state annals ...

Gov. Lawton Chiles, ... The governor, 68, was apparently alone in the mansion’s workout room when an agent of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement […] Skip to content.

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. Ron DeSantis vetoed $6.25 million that the Legislature budgeted for restoring the Ocklawaha River and dismantling the ...

Chiles first gained widespread notoriety by walking the entire state during his 1970 campaign for Florida's U.S. Senate seat. He walked 1,003 miles over 91 days, shaking hands with nearly 40,000 ...

In honor of the late Gov. Lawton Chiles and in honor of good, fiscally conservative government, last January I proposed the Lawton Chiles Tobacco Endowment Fund for Children and Elders. This endowm… ...

Kenneth “Buddy” MacKay, who as lieutenant governor became Florida’s most recent Democratic governor in 1998 on the sudden death of Gov. Lawton Chiles, died New Year’s Eve afternoon at his ...

Former Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles, a Lakeland native, was an early investor in Red Lobster. When Red Lobster first opened, among the early menu items were a half-dozen oysters for 65 cents and a ...