Merrill Lynch

Charles Edward Merrill was an American philanthropist, stockbroker and co-founder of Merrill Lynch & Company . Charles E. Merrill, the son of physician Dr. Charles Merrill and Octavia Merrill, was born in Green Cove Springs, Florida where he spent his early childhood. In 1898 the family... briefly moved to Knoxville, Tennessee but within the year returned to Florida to settle in Jacksonville. After the school Merrill had been attending was damaged in the Great Fire of 1901, his parents decided to send him to the college preparatory academy operated by John B. Stetson University. Merrill studied there from 1901 till 1903 and then in 1903 for the final year of high school was transferred to Worcester Academy. After two years at Amherst College, Merrill spent time at the University of Michigan Law School from 1906 to 1907; worked at Patchogue-Plymouth Mills from 1907-09; at George H. Burr & Co., New York City, from 1909-13; then established Charles E. Merrill & Co. in 1914, changing the name to Merrill Lynch & Company. Merrill and his friend, Edmund C. Lynch, created Merrill Lynch in 1915.
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Armando Codina , a Cuban-American self-made millionaire, was among the 25 Florida electors for President Bush in the 2000 Presidential Election, and... the 27 electors chosen in the 2004 Presidential Election. A prominent figure in Miami politics, Florida Energy, and real estate, Codina has had a close relationship with the Bush family since the 1980 Presidential Campaign of George H. W. Bush. Codina gave Florida Governor Jeb Bush his first job in Miami in the early 1980s, after acting as the Florida chair of George H. W. Bush's unsuccessful campaign for the Republican Presidential Nomination in 1980. Codina sits on the board for a number of corporations, companies, and organizations. Among these are: As of 2002, he owns 44,554 shares in BellSouth Florida worth $1,135,681.46 as of March 2005. In 2003, he purchased 5,000 shares of interest in the FPL Group, worth approximately $197,450 in 2005.
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