page_title: Spessard Holland
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: Spessard Holland / Early life and education
caption_attribution_description: Local call number: PT00214 Title: Spessard Holland, student and football player at Emory University: Atlanta, Georgia Date: 1912 General note: Spessard Holland was born in Bartow, Florida on July 10, 1892. He served in World War I, graduated from Emory College in Atlanta (now Emory University) and attended law school at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Holland was elected to the Florida Senate in 1932, and became Governor of Florida in 1941. He served in the United States Senate from 1946 until his retirement in 1971. Physical descrip: 1 photoprint - b&amp;w - 24 x 18 mm. Series Title: Political collection Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/18948 Visit Florida Memory to learn more about Spessard Holland during his tenure as Governor of Florida. Visit Florida Memory to learn more about the history of college football in Florida.
context_page_description: Spessard Lindsey Holland was an American lawyer and politician. He served as the 28th Governor of Florida from 1941 to 1945, and as a United States Senator from Florida from 1946 to 1971. A Democrat, he was a member of the conservative coalition in Congress.
context_section_description: Holland was born in Bartow, Florida, the son of Benjamin Franklin and Virginia Spessard Holland, a teacher. He attended public schools, entering the Summerlin Institute (now Bartow High School) in 1909. Holland graduated magna cum laude from Emory College (currently Emory University) in 1912, where he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. Holland would go on to teach high school in Warrenton, Georgia for four years.
  In 1916, Holland began attending law school at the University of Florida. There he taught in the "sub-freshman department" (high school) of the university. He also became the first elected student body president and a member of the debating society. During his time at Emory and UF, he participated in track and field, football, basketball, and baseball; 
  on one occasion, he played so well as a pitcher in an exhibition game against the Philadelphia Athletics that Connie Mack (the grandfather of Connie Mack III, who would one day hold the Senate seat Holland once occupied) offered him a contract (he declined).
caption: Holland as a football player at Emory.
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