He attended a “Day with Florida Governors” symposium, organized by the University of Central Florida and Louis Frey Institute on March 27, 2006, with Governor Bush and former governors Claude Roy Kirk Jr., Reubin Askew, Bob Graham and Bob Martinez (Wayne Mixson, who served for three days after Graham's resignation, wasn't present). MacKay's memoir about his political career, How Florida Happened, was published by the University Press of Florida in March 2010. Electoral history Florida Senate, 6th district (1974) Buddy MacKay (D) – 26,418 (75.32%) Charles E. Curtis (R) – 8,655 (24.68%) Florida Senate, 6th district (1978) Buddy MacKay (D, Inc.) – elected unopposed United States Senate election in Florida, 1980 (Democratic primary) Richard Stone (Inc.) – 355,287 (32.08%) Bill Gunter – 335,859 (30.33%) Buddy MacKay – 272,538 (24.61%) Richard A. Pettigrew – 108,154 (9.77%) James L. Miller – 18,118 (1.64%) John B. Coffey – 17,410 (1.57%) Florida's 6th congressional district, 1982 Buddy MacKay (D) – 85,825 (61.35%) Ed Havill (R) – 54,059 (38.65%) Florida's 6th congressional district, 1984 Buddy MacKay (D, Inc.) – 167,409 (99.30%) Eric Tarnley (write-in) – 1,174 (0.70%) Florida's 6th congressional district, 1986 Buddy MacKay (D, Inc.) – 143,598 (70.16%) Larry Gallagher (R) – 61,069 (29.84%) United States Senate election in Florida, 1988 (Democratic primary) Bill Gunter – 383,721 (38.00%) Buddy MacKay – 263,946 (26.14%) Dan Mica – 179,524 (17.78%) Pat Frank – 119,277 (11.81%) Claude Roy Kirk Jr. – 51,387 (5.09%) Fred Rader – 11,820 (1.17%) Florida United States Senate election, 1988 (Democratic runoff) Buddy MacKay – 369,266 (52.00%) Bill Gunter – 340,918 (48.00%) Florida United States Senate election, 1988 Connie Mack III (R) – 2,051,071 (50.42%) Buddy MacKay (D) – 2,016,553 (49.57%) Adam Straus (write-in) – 585 (0.01%) Democratic primary for lieutenant governor, 1990 Buddy MacKay – 746,325 (69.49%) Tom Gustafson – 327,731 (30.51%) Florida gubernatorial election, 1990 Lawton Chiles/Buddy MacKay (D) – 1,995,206 (56.51%) Bob Martinez/J. Allison DeFoor (R) – 1,535,068 (43.48%) Democratic primary for lieutenant governor, 1994 Buddy MacKay (Inc.) – 603,657 (72.17%) James H. King – 232,757 (27.83%) Florida gubernatorial election, 1994 Lawton Chiles/Buddy MacKay (D, Inc.) – 2,135,008 (50.75%) Jeb Bush/Tom Feeney (R) – 2,071,068 (49.23%) Florida gubernatorial election, 1998 Jeb Bush/Frank Brogan (R) – 2,191,105 (55.27%) Buddy MacKay/Rick Dantzler (D) – 1,773,054 (44.72%) Source: Our Campaigns – Candidate – Kenneth "Buddy" MacKay Jr. References External links Official Governor's portrait and biography from the State of Florida MacKay's biography from