Duval County FlArchives Biographies.....DuBose, John W. October 11, 1882 - 
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Source: Vol. II  pg.39-40  The Lewis Publishing Co. 1923
Author: History of Florida, Past and Present

        DuBOSE, JOHN W., county judge of Duval County and one of the 
representative members of the bar of the City of Jacksonville, was born at 
Williamsburg, South Carolina, on 11th October, 1882, and is a scion of one of 
the old and honored families of that historic southern commonwealth. He is the 
eldest of five children of EDGAR C. and ELLEN (JOHNSON) DuBOSE, who are now 
residents of Jacksonville, where they established their home in 1884 and where 
the father was engaged in the retail grocery business until 1917, since which 
year he has lived virtually retired. He is a democrat in political allegiance, 
and both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
	JOHN W. DuBOSE was two years of age at the time of the family removal 
from South Carolina to Jacksonville, Florida, and in the public schools of the 
city he gained his early education, which was effectively supplemented by his 
determined and assiduous study in a private way. His ambition to enter the 
legal profession was shown in his close application to the study of law at 
every possible hour, both day and night, and his excellent powers of absorption 
and assimilation enabled him to make substantial progress in his studies, with 
the result that in October, 1918, he passed a most creditable examination and 
was admitted to the Florida bar. Thereafter he was engaged in the general 
practice of his profession at Jacksonville until November 6, 1920, when he was 
elected county judge of Duval County, an office in which his administration is 
fully justifying the consistency of the popular vote that made him the 
incumbent. Judge DuBose is an active member of the Jacksonville Bar 
Association, the Duval County Bar Association, the Florida State Bar 
Association and the American Bar Association. He is affiliated in his home city 
with Ionia Lodge No. 101, Free and Accepted Masons. He gave most effective and 
loyal service as president of the city council of Jacksonville, and retained 
for five years the office of justice of the peace. In the World war, Judge 
DuBose was secretary of the Duval County Draft Board, and was otherwise active 
in the furtherance of local patriotic service. He is a stalwart in the camp of 
the democratic party, is a member of the Young Men’s Christian Association, he 
and his wife hold membership in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and his 
fraternal affiliation’s further include membership in the Patriotic Order of 
Sons of America, the Loyal Order of Moose, the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of 
Pythias, together with its adjunct organization, the Dramatic Order of Knights 
of Khorassan. The judge is married and has two children.
       

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