J.T. Magbee had an illustrious career.  He was an attorney (one of the first in Tampa), a Florida State Constitutional Convention delegate, a Florida State Senator, an early newspaper publisher and a judge of the Circuit Court.  He was also a “scalawag,” (the name given to persons who changed affiliations from the South to the North just after the Civil war) and a public drunk.  During one spree, locals spread molasses and cornmeal on the judge’s unconscious form where it lay in a city street.  Night-roaming pigs ate of the sweet mixture – along with the judge’s clothes.

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