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… ...

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 ...

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.

"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.

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 ...

— With tears and laughter, stories and song, the friends and family of Gov. Lawton Chiles bid him goodbye on Wednesday.“Lawton was a fun guy,” said Buddy MacKay, who was sworn in as governor ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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, ...