wear red roses. The following year, he was appointed to the Southern Supreme Court. His impartiality and sound judgement refuted his critics fears. In 1850, the supreme court and the circuit court were separated, and he served on the circuit court until 1853, when he lost a three-way popular election. In 1852, the collapse of the Whig party prompted him to move to the American Party. Financial troubles led him to move to Tampa. He was elected Tampa's first Mayor on February 16, 1856. He is buried at Oaklawn Cemetery in Tampa and has a memorial stone at Jacksonville's Old City Cemetery. References Brown, Canter, Jr. Ossian Bingley Hart: Florida's Loyalist Reconstruction Governor. Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. Manley, Walter W., Brown, E. Canter. and Rise, Eric W. "Joseph Bradford Lancaster, Supreme Court Justice, 1848–1851." The Supreme Court of Florida and Its Predecessor Courts, 1821–1917. pp. 128 – 131. University Press of Florida. Gainesville, Florida. 1997. eBook . . at Netlbrary. Online. April 23, 2008. The Political Graveyard. . https://archive.today/20120530061459/http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/ 1790 births 1856 deaths Florida lawyers Florida Whigs Members of the Florida Territorial Legislature 19th-century American politicians Members of the Florida House of Representatives Speakers of the Florida House of Representatives Justices of the Florida Supreme Court Kentucky lawyers Mayors of Jacksonville, Florida U.S. state supreme court judges admitted to the practice of law by reading law 19th-century American judges 19th-century American lawyers