Florida House speaker Ralph Turlington dies at 100 By FOX 13 News Staff Published Courtesy: Florida Memory Project GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Former Florida House speaker and education commissioner Ralph Turlington, who pushed through the state lottery, corporate income tax and open records law, has died at 100, his family said. Turlington represented Alachua County in the House from 1950 to 1974 before being elected to three four-year terms as education commissioner. He died on Wednesday in North Carolina, his son Donald Turlington told The liberal Democrat served as speaker from 1966 to 1968 an...