Four-term legislator dies

  • By Business Observer Staff
  • | 3:17 p.m. July 6, 2012
  • Manatee-Sarasota
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SARASOTA — Four-term Florida state legislator Jim Tillman, a cowboy boot wearing Republican from Sarasota who rose to House minority leader, died July 4 in Tallahassee. Tillman, who had an extended illness, was 77.

 

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