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 not remember when he left office.

B: He died in May of 1956.

C: Obviously, he would have had a race sometime between the time I came here,
 because they were four-year terms, as I recall. They are now. I do not even
 remember who ran against him. I did not get involved in that race. As a matter of
 fact, I was living out in the country at the time.

B: When he died, he had just been re-elected to his fourth term as mayor. Did that
 cause a lot of confusion or uncertainty in local politics, when he died?

C: Was that the time that J. L. Young was chairman of the City Council and
 became acting mayor, interim mayor or whatever you call it?

B: Yes.

C: That opened up the mayor's office for a whole bunch of people to get involved in
 it, and I do not remember who all of them were.

B: Nick ran, of course, J. L. Young ran, and there were, as you say, several others.

C: Nick won that race, did he not?

B: Yes, he did. That was his first term when he won that special election.

C: Yes, he beat J. L., and then I guess the next time was four years later when
 Julian ran against him. Julian was the campaign manager in Hillsborough County
 for Dan McCarty.

B: In 1952.

C: Yes. He and Dan had gone to school together, I think. I did not get that active in
 the campaign itself. I was active in the senatorial campaign in 1950 on campus
 because I was still in law school part of that time.

B: The U. S. Senate campaign?

C: Yes, when George Smathers ran against [Claude] Pepper and beat him in
 1950. I remember coming home one time and going to a rally, and Will Banks
 from Alabama-Dr. Will Banks was a veterinarian, and his brother was in the
 cattle business-were big Pepper supporters. Dot and I were not even married
 then. Dot had gone on radio for George, and I went to a rally in Plant City while I
 was still in school. I was surprised at these old crackers from Alabama being for
 "Red" Pepper. Of course, George pulled some real tricks on him in that race.