List of Bethune-Cookman University Alumni - Politics

Politics

Name Class year Notability References
James Bush III 1979 Current member of the Florida House of Representatives District 109
William H. Turner 1956 First African-American chairperson of the Miami-Dade County School Board and a former member of the Florida Senate from 1992 to 1998



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