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Hamlin Valentine Snell
6th President of the Florida Senate
Preceded byRobert J. Floyd
Succeeded byPhilip Dell
8th Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives
In office
November 24, 1856 – December 27, 1856
Preceded byPhilip Dell
Succeeded byJohn B. Galbraith
8th Mayor of Tampa
In office
February 2, 1861 – February 3, 1862
Preceded byJohn P. Circhton
Succeeded byJohn Jackson
Personal details
BornFebruary 14, 1810
Savannah, Georgia
DiedJanuary 29, 1886
Gainesville, Florida
OccupationPolitician, lawyer

Hamlin Valentine Snell (February 14, 1810 – January 29, 1886) was an American lawyer and politician in Florida. He served as speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, was president of the Florida State Senate, and was the eighth mayor of Tampa, Florida.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia.[1] He was William H. Whitaker's half-brother.[2]

Snell originally moved to Florida in the late 1830s. In 1840 he'd be elected as Calhoun County's representative to the Territorial Legislative Council. He'd move once more again to what is today Sarasota in 1842[3] where he started a guava plantation.[4]

Snell moved to Tampa sometime in late 1857. He became the Port of Tampa's deputy collector in June 1858. He'd serve as the Mayor of Tampa from February 1, 1860, until February 2, 1861.[1][3] As mayor, he celebrated the start of the American Civil War. Martial law was declared in Tampa on April 21, 1861, by the 20th Florida Regiment after it had taken control of Fort Brooke. Close to three weeks after martial law was declared, he fled Tampa like many other citizens of the city at the time.[1] He married Mary Beville in 1867.[5] Local artist Ruth Finney Horney painted a portrait of him.[6]

He died on January 29, 1886, in Gainesville, Florida.[1]

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References

  1. ^ a b c d "Hamlin Valentine Snell - 8th Mayor Of Tampa". City of Tampa. June 17, 2014.
  2. ^ "Whitaker, kin inhabit frontier Sarasota in mid-1800s – Siesta Sand".
  3. ^ a b "City Hall and Tampa's Mayors". www.tampapix.com.
  4. ^ "Hamlin Valentine Snell - 8th Mayor Of Tampa". City of Tampa. 17 June 2014. Retrieved 2021-05-24.
  5. ^ Tedcastle, Agnes Beville Vaughan (July 13, 1917). "The Beville Family of Virginia, Georgia, and Florida, and Several Allied Families, North and South". Priv. print. – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Favorite, Merab-Michal (July 13, 2013). Bradenton. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9780738590783 – via Google Books.
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