Tom Slade — a hard-drinking, seafaring tactician who steered Republicans to political dominance in Florida — died Monday in Orange Park at age 78 from complications associated with heart failure. The ...

Thomas Howell Slade Jr., 78, of Orange Park, Florida, formerly of Starke, Florida, died peacefully on Monday, October 20, 2014. He was born on March 13, 1936 in Baxley, Georgia to Tom and Flo Slade, ...

TALLAHASSEE (CBSMiami/NSF) - Tom Slade --- a hard-drinking, seafaring tactician who steered Republicans to political dominance in Florida --- died Monday in Orange Park at age 78 from complications ...

Former state senator Tom Slade, center, who died Monday, is applauded by outgoing state party chief Van Poole, left, and opponent for the post Sherry Plymale after Slade was elected as chairman of the ...

Tom Slade, a giant in Florida Republican politics, died Monday at the age of 78. Slade is best known in political circles for his six-year term as head of the state GOP. He took over in 1993, at a ...

Former lawmaker and longtime Republican Party leader Tom Slade died Monday at Orange Park Medical Center following heart failure last week, a family spokeswoman said. Mr. Slade "was unable to be ...

Slade, Jr., Thomas 78, of Orange Park, Florida, formerly of Starke, Florida, died peacefully on Monday, October 20, 2014. He was born on March 13, 1936 in Baxley, Georgia to Tom and Flo Slade, and ...

ORANGE PARK, Fla. – Tom Slade -- a hard-drinking, seafaring tactician who steered Republicans to political dominance in Florida -- died Monday in Orange Park at age 78 from complications associated ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Tom Slade, who led the Republican Party of Florida as Jeb Bush and the GOP rose to power, died Monday after being hospitalized last week for heart failure, according to a ...

Republican state Sen. Tom Slade, center, is applauded by outgoing party chief Van Poole, left, and opponent Sherry Plymale after Slade was elected chairman in the early 1990s. Former Times Staffer ...

"Tom Slade was one of the best of a class of old-school intuitive politicians, the mold for which has long since been broken. He was a Southern gentleman. He was a ruthless fighter. He was a charming ...

Tom Slade, one of the smartest, funniest, and most consequential political operators in modern Florida history, died this afternoon at age 78, his sister confirms. "I can't think of anyone as ...