Bronson Thayer

Chairman of the board and CEO of Florida Business Bankgroup Inc

Veteran Florida banker and Tampa civic leader Bronson Thayer died Christmas Eve 2016, family members confirmed late Sunday. He was 77. hayer was chairman of Bay Cities Bank and a board member of WEDU, the local public television station. He served on the Florida Council of 100, the boards of the Tampa Museum of Art and the University of South Florida Foundation and was director of the Bok Tower Gardens Foundation. Along with his wife, Stella Ferguson Thayer, an attorney and co-owner of Tampa Bay Downs, he was named 2014 Citizen of the Year by the Economic Club of Tampa. They were married 47 years. A Harvard College graduate, he earned an MBA from New York University. After a spell working in New York, Thayer became a prominent member of Tampa’s banking community. He was chairman of the board and CEO of Florida Business Bankgroup Inc., as well as former chief of Tampa’s First Florida Banks Inc., and a past chairman of the Florida Chamber of Commerce. His marriage to Stella Ferguson Thayer made him part of the powerful Lykes family. His heyday was in the 1980s when the Lykes-controlled First Florida Banks enjoyed an economic boom and became a regional heavyweight with 144 offices and about 4,000 employees along Florida’s west coast. It was sold to Barnett Banks in 1992 After a hiatus, he returned to banking around 1999, starting Bay Cities Banks. Its stock offering resulted in the sale of $13-million in shares.

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Manuel Kadre	Lamar Alexander, John Cornyn, Connie Mack IV, Mel Martinez, Bob Menendez, Bill Nelson, Katherine Harris, Bill McCollum, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Florida, Mitt Romney, Dennis A. Ross, Kelly Ayotte, Carlos Curbelo, Charlie Crist
Edward A Lozick	David Perdue, Lamar Alexander, John Cornyn, Connie Mack IV, Mel Martinez, Katherine Harris, Connie Mack III, Bill McCollum, David Jolly, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush, Mitt Romney, Carlos Curbelo
Wayne L Berman	Lamar Alexander, Gus Bilirakis, John Cornyn, Mel Martinez, Connie Mack III, Bill McCollum, David Jolly, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush, Mitt Romney, Bill Weld, Kelly Ayotte, Carlos Curbelo
Brent Sembler	Lamar Alexander, Gus Bilirakis, Connie Mack IV, Mel Martinez, Adam Putnam, Charles William Young, Michael Bilirakis, Katherine Harris, Connie Mack III, Bill McCollum, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush, Mitt Romney, Charlie Crist
John K Castle	David Perdue, Lamar Alexander, Evan Bayh, John Cornyn, Mel Martinez, Katherine Harris, Bill McCollum, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush, Mitt Romney, Bill Weld, Kelly Ayotte, Charlie Crist
Leslie Rose	David Perdue, John Cornyn, Connie Mack IV, Katherine Harris, Connie Mack III, Bill McCollum, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush, Mitt Romney, Bill Weld, Kelly Ayotte, Charlie Crist
Stephen Schwarzman	David Perdue, Lamar Alexander, John Cornyn, Mel Martinez, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Bob Graham, George H W Bush, Mitt Romney, Bill Weld, Kelly Ayotte, Carlos Curbelo, Charlie Crist
Tom Rankin	John Bennett Johnston Jr, David Perdue, Gus Bilirakis, Mel Martinez, Michael Bilirakis, Jim Davis, Katherine Harris, Connie Mack III, Bill McCollum, Sam Melville Gibbons, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, Continue the Majority, Bill Sutton, Bill Grant, George S Lemieux
Stephen M Ross	Lamar Alexander, John Cornyn, John Kerry, Connie Mack IV, Bill Nelson, Bill McCollum, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, Republican National Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Mitt Romney, Bill Weld, Kelly Ayotte, Carlos Curbelo, Charlie Crist
Norman Braman	Evan Bayh, John Cornyn, John Kerry, Connie Mack IV, Mel Martinez, Charles William Young, Katherine Harris, Connie Mack III, Bill McCollum, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, Bob Graham, Mitt Romney, Kelly Ayotte, Carlos Curbelo
Jorge Mas	John Bennett Johnston Jr, Gus Bilirakis, John Kerry, Connie Mack IV, Mel Martinez, Bob Menendez, Bill Nelson, Connie Mack III, James Bacchus, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, George W Bush, Republican Party of Florida, Bob Graham, George H W Bush, Mitt Romney, Carlos Curbelo
Thomas A Davis	Gus Bilirakis, Connie Mack IV, Mel Martinez, Bill Nelson, Adam Putnam, Michael Bilirakis, Connie Mack III, Bill McCollum, Sam Melville Gibbons, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, George W Bush, National Republican Congressional Committee, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Bob Graham, George H W Bush, Bill Grant
Peter S Rummell	Lamar Alexander, Connie Mack IV, Mel Martinez, Bill Nelson, Adam Putnam, Bill McCollum, Sam Melville Gibbons, James Bacchus, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Florida, Mitt Romney, George S Lemieux, Charlie Crist
Doyle Bartlett	David Perdue, Gus Bilirakis, John Cornyn, Connie Mack IV, Adam Putnam, Katherine Harris, Bill McCollum, George W Bush, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Florida, Continue the Majority, George H W Bush, Bill Sutton, Dennis A. Ross, Kelly Ayotte, Carlos Curbelo
Dr Zachariah P Zachariah	Gus Bilirakis, Connie Mack IV, Michael Bilirakis, Connie Mack III, Bill McCollum, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Bob Graham, George H W Bush, Mitt Romney, Bill Weld, Bill Grant, Tom Gallagher, Charlie Crist
James France	Connie Mack IV, Mel Martinez, Bill Nelson, Katherine Harris, Connie Mack III, Bill McCollum, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Bob Graham, Continue the Majority, Mitt Romney, Kelly Ayotte, Charlie Crist
Theodore Cutler	John Cornyn, John Kerry, Mel Martinez, Bill Nelson, Connie Mack III, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Bob Graham, George H W Bush, Mitt Romney, Bill Weld, Kelly Ayotte
Frank Baxter	David Perdue, Lamar Alexander, Evan Bayh, John Cornyn, Mel Martinez, Bill Nelson, Katherine Harris, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush, Mitt Romney, Bill Weld, Kelly Ayotte
Ken Griffin	David Perdue, Evan Bayh, John Cornyn, John Kerry, Mel Martinez, Bill Nelson, David Jolly, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee - Contributions, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, Mitt Romney, Carlos Curbelo
Duane R Roberts	David Perdue, Lamar Alexander, John Cornyn, Mel Martinez, Bill McCollum, George W Bush, Republican National Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee, Republican Party of Florida, RNC Republican National State Elections Committee, George H W Bush, Mitt Romney, Kelly Ayotte, Carlos Curbelo, Charlie Crist

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Types	Person, Business Person
Gender	Male
Date of death	Dec 24 '16
Aliases	A Bronson Thayer

Bronson Thayer

Chairman of the board and CEO of Florida Business Bankgroup Inc

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