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Founder Charles Ausley featured in The Tallahassee Democrat's TLH 200 as part of Bicentennial Celebration
September 6, 2024
Tallahassee Democrat
As the city of Tallahassee commemorates the 200th anniversary of its founding this year, the Tallahassee Democrat is featuring 200 people who are now deceased, but who during their lives helped lay the foundation for growth of the civil society we find in Tallahassee today.
We are proud that one of those featured is firm founder Charles Saxon Ausley. In 1930 Charles teamed with future Florida Governor LeRoy Collins to create what is now one of Tallahassee's oldest law firms.
Among other accomplishments, Ausley wrote the first charter of the Florida State Foundation, founded the Tallahassee Jaycees, served as President of the Chamber of Commerce, and as a director of the Orange Bowl committee. He was also a municipal judge, city commissioner and state senator - filling in for Collins when he resigned to join the Navy during World War II.
At his passing, the editorial board wrote, "there was hardly a worthwhile project or mission on which his help was not sought and given without hesitation. It is such good citizens as Charles Ausley who have made Tallahassee the place for the good life it is."