Betty Mae Tiger Jumper

Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, also known as Potackee (Seminole), was the first and so far the only female chairperson of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. A nurse, she co-founded the tribe's first newspaper in 1956, the Seminole News, later replaced by The Seminole Tribune, for which she served as editor, winning a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native American Journalists Association. In 2001 she published her memoir, entitled A Seminole Legend.

27 April 1923

Born on the same birth day (27 April): Ace Frehley • Adamantios Korais • Arielle Dombasle • Charles Robert Cockerell • Christian Lara (footballer) • Fei (singer) • Lara Gut-Behrami • Lim Bo Seng • Mary Wollstonecraft • Richard Perham • Samuel Morse • Sandy Dennis • Warren Wood • William W. Snow

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