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DON FUQUA: HIS JOURNEY FROM ALTHA, FLORIDA, TO THE UNITED STATE CONGRESS AND HIS LEGACY OF LEADERSHIP IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND EDUCATION

In 1933 Don Fuqua was born in Jacksonville, Florida. His father John managed an A & P Tea grocery store. After his brother Harry was born in 1936, Mr. Fuqua decided that a large city was not the ideal place to raise three boys, so with an improving American economy, the Fuqua family moved to Altha, Florida, in 1938, a small community in Calhoun County. At the Fuqua farm, Don and his brothers helped operate dairy cattle, and grow and harvest soybeans, cotton, and peanuts.

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