TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Florida’s forty second Governor Kenneth Hood “Buddy” MacKay, Jr. has died, Governor Ron DeSantis confirmed on Thursday. He was 91.
“A U.S. Air Power veteran and lifelong public servant, MacKay was devoted to our nation and our state,” DeSantis wrote in a social media post. “Could he relaxation in peace.”
MacKay served within the U.S. Air Power within the Fifties earlier than attending the College of Florida and incomes his regulation diploma, in line with the Florida Division of State.
He spent most of the years following as a state consultant, and through his time in Congress, labored to assist carry the nationwide finances beneath management.
In 1990, MacKay grew to become the state’s 14th Lieutenant Governor, serving two phrases alongside Lawton Chiles.
MacKay assumed the governorship after Chiles died instantly of an obvious coronary heart assault simply three weeks earlier than he was set to depart workplace.
In keeping with the Florida Division of State, MacKay stuffed the function from Dec. 12, 1998, to Jan. 5, 1999.
He was married and had 4 sons.
