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Something to go with your July 4th festivities: The author of the Pledge of Allegiance was a former Tampa Electric team member

Did you ever wonder about who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance? This Independence Day, we thought we’d share a bit of local trivia with national impact. Francis Bellamy joined Tampa Electric late in life, hired in 1925 as the director of advertising. Born in 1855, he had been a Baptist minister, a writer and an advertising executive in New York City. Bellamy composed the pledge in 1892 in celebration of…

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