Ralph E. Cunningham Jr. (May 12, 1925 – April 29, 2007) was an American politician. He served as a Democratic member of the

Florida House of Representatives The Florida House of Representatives is the lower house of the Florida Legislature, the State legislature (United States), state legislature of the U.S. state of Florida, the Florida Senate being the upper house. Article III, Section 1 of the C ...

Life and career

Cunningham was born in

Hackensack, New Jersey Hackensack is the most populous municipality in and the county seat of Bergen County, New Jersey, Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

. He attended the

University of Toledo The University of Toledo (UToledo or UT) is a Public university, public research university in Toledo, Ohio, United States. It is the northernmost campus of the University System of Ohio. The university also operates a Health Science campus, ...

and the

University of Miami The University of Miami (UM, UMiami, Miami, U of M, and The U) is a private university, private research university in Coral Gables, Florida, United States. , the university enrolled 19,852 students in two colleges and ten schools across over ...

. Cunningham served in the

in 1959. Cunningham died on April 29, 2007, in

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, at the age of 81.Web: Obituary Daily Times Index, 1995-2012. (via Ancestry)

References

1925 births 2007 deaths Politicians from Hackensack, New Jersey Democratic Party members of the Florida House of Representatives University of Toledo alumni University of Miami alumni 20th-century members of the Florida Legislature {{Florida-FLRepresentative-Democratic-stub