Ray C. Osborne

{{short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2011}} {{Infobox officeholder |name= Ray C. Osborne |image= Lt Gov Ray C. Osborne, Official Portrait.jpg |caption=Official portrait of Lt. Gov. Osborne<br />circa 1969–1971 |order= 9th |office= Lieutenant Governor of Florida |term_start= January 7, 1969 |term_end= January 5, 1971 |governor= Claude Roy Kirk |predecessor= Milton H. Mabry |successor= Tom Adams |office2= Member of the Florida House of Representatives |term2= 1964-1968 |birth_date= {{birth date|1933|9|7}} |birth_place= Winston-Salem, North Carolina, US |death_date= {{death date and age|2011|3|3|1933|9|7}} |death_place= Boca Raton, Florida |party= Republican |profession= |spouse= |footnotes= }} '''Raymond Claiborne Osborne''' (September 7, 1933 – March 3, 2011), was a Florida Republican Party politician who served as the first Lieutenant Governor of Florida under the state constitution of 1968. Osborne was the state's first lieutenant governor since 1889. Appointed<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/barm/rediscovery/default.asp?IDCFile=/fsa/DETAILSS.IDC,SPECIFIC=82,DATABASE=SERIES, |title=State Archives of Florida Online Catalog |accessdate=May 25, 2008 |publisher=State Library and Archives of Florida |archive-date=April 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405040413/http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/barm/rediscovery/default.asp?IDCFile=/fsa/detailss.idc,SPECIFIC=82,DATABASE=SERIES, |url-status=dead }}</ref> by Republican Governor Claude R. Kirk, Jr., Osborne was sworn in on January 7, 1969, for a term that lasted two years.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.floridamemory.com/PhotographicCollection/filmguide.cfm |title=Filming Florida: Images of the Sunshine State |accessdate=May 25, 2008 |publisher=State Archives of Florida}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.floridamemory.com/OnlineClassroom/photographic-processes/crayon_gv013352.cfm |title=Portrait of Florida's first Lieutenant Governor William W.J. Kelly |accessdate=May 25, 2008 |publisher=State Archives of Florida}}</ref>

Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Osborne graduated from North Carolina State University in 1955. He then served in the United States Army from 1955 to 1957. Osborne graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1961. Osborne moved with his wife to St. Petersburg, Florida. From 1964 to 1968, Osborne served in the Florida House of Representatives, and unsuccessfully ran for the Florida Public Service Commission in 1968. Osborne practiced law for many years in Boca Raton, Florida, until his death in March 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/palmbeachpost/obituary.aspx?n=ray-claiborne-osborne&pid=149098646#fbLoggedOut |title=Ray Claiborne Osborne Obituary: View Ray Osborne's Obituary by The Palm Beach Post|publisher=Legacy.com |date= |accessdate=2012-08-17}}</ref>

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