John Broward Culpepper
(1907-1991)

Died aged c. 84

Dr. J. Broward Culpepper was born December 9, 1907 in Perry. He received a Ph.D. from Columbia University, then began his career in education as an administrator, teacher and high school principal of Leon High School, Tallahassee, from 1941 to 1944. He then became Dean of Men at Florida State University. He left FSU to become secretary and director of the Board of Control (the previous name for the Board of Regents), and was subsequently named the first chancellor of Florida’s State University system. Culpepper expanded the university system, creating the Universities of West Florida, South Florida and Florida Atlantic University. He resigned from the Florida State University System to become vice president of Texas Woman’s University. Dr. J. Broward Culpepper died in 1991.

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