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Professor M.C. Mirow has just published a study of Florida’s first elected representative and his work to bring Florida’s concerns to Spain’s legislature in 1813. Florida’s first representative was surprisingly not sent to the U.S. Congress. Instead, Gonzalo Herrera, one of Cuba’s wealthiest individuals, was elected to represent the Floridas in the legislative assembly of Spain’s constitutional empire several years before Florida became a U.S. territory. After summarizing the adoption of the Constitution of Cádiz in East Florida and the implementation of constitutional structures, Mirow examines Herrera’s legislative efforts for the Floridas and Cuba before the Spanish assembly. The study is “Gonzalo Herrera y las Floridas frente a las Cortes” in XVIII Congreso Instituto Internacional de Historia del Derecho Indiano (Córdoba, Argentina: IIHDI, 2016). Mirow is a founding faculty member of the College of Law and a member of the Florida bar. He is the author of Florida’s First Constitution, The Constitution of Cádiz (2012).