In 1985, Secretary of State George Firestone presented the revised Great Seal of the State of Florida to the Governor and the Cabinet. The previous State Seal had several errors which were corrected in in the 1985 Seal.

Learn about the history of the Florida State Seal and request to use the Seal. In 1985, Secretary of State George Firestone presented the revised Great Seal of the State of Florida to the Governor and the Cabinet.

During his active-duty service, he supported operations at the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and deployed to Iraq as an adviser to a U.S. Navy SEAL commander in support of the SEAL mission in Fallujah, Ramadi and the rest of Al Anbar province.

In the mid–1950s, the state legislature commissioned Tallahassee artist Clarabel Jett (1908–96) to create oil–enhanced photographs of all Florida governors whose portraits were not yet in the state collection.

"In God We Trust" was adopted as the official state motto in the 2006 Florida Legislative Session. (Section 15.0301, Florida Statutes) Florida's present Constitution, (Art. II, Sec. 4), continues to require the seal to be prescribed by law.

The Florida Department of State manages our state's elections, corporations, historical and cultural resources and our libraries.

During Governor Perry's administration, Florida adopted a new constitution and established the state board of education to support public schools. At the end of his term, he returned to Pensacola, where he died on October 15, 1889.

He ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1964 and then ran for governor in 1966. When Florida voters elected him that year, Kirk became the first Republican to win the governorship since 1872. During Kirk's years in office a new Florida constitution went into effect (1968).

Caldwell won the governor's race in 1944. During his administration, financing for public schools was increased and state government grew larger. Caldwell was appointed and then elected justice of the Florida Supreme Court in 1962. In 1967, he was elected chief justice.

Reid presided at the convention that drafted Florida's first constitution and advocated a vigorous prosecution of the Second Seminole War. He died at his home near Tallahassee on July 1, 1841, a victim of a yellow fever epidemic.