Randy Christmas
Politician
1920 – 1969
Who was Randy Christmas?
Randall Norton "Randy" Christmas was the Mayor of Miami from 1955–1957. He had served previously on the Miami City Commission from 1953–1955.
In 1926 the Christmas family relocated to Miami. The sixth of seven siblings, Randall began working as a young boy delivering the Miami Herald. He attended Edison High School where he graduated in 1938. Christmas served with the US Marine Corps VMB443 in a B-25 bomber in the Pacific Theater during World War II where he met and became acquainted with George Smathers, later to become an influential Senator from the state of Florida. As a student at the University of Miami in 1948, he became a charter member of the Beta Delta chapter of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. In 1951, Randall graduated from the University of Miami School of Law. Christmas served in a time of tremendous change and phenomenal growth for Miami highlighted by the creation and transition to Miami-Dade, a municipal entity incorporating the whole of Miami proper with several of the smaller municipalities in the wider metro area. Christmas was the first mayor to serve from what are still the current offices of the City of Miami municipal government. He can be seen on camera from these offices in the film Miami Expose in which he introduces the movie to audiences. Christmas later served as an Assistant State's Attorney from 1960–1964, afterwards continuing in private practice till his death.
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