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Florida State University Board Taps Politician to Lead School.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2002

The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 19--Florida State University champions don't come more garnet-and-gold than T.K. Wetherell -- the former House speaker, community-college president and Seminole football player chosen Wednesday as the school's 13th president.

FSU's board of trustees ended a three-month national search by embracing the man presumed at the start to be the favorite to succeed to retiring President Sandy D'Alemberte in Tallahassee.

After a final interview, the board voted 12-1 for Wetherell, passing over finalists with far more extensive credentials and higher national profiles.

Yet former Ohio State University President Edward Jennings, 65, and former UCLA law Dean Susan Prager,...

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