Robert Lester Floyd (January 4, 1918 – May 14, 2007) was a community leader and US politician best known as the youngest mayor of the City of Miami.
After graduating from Washington College of Law American University, he became an FBI Special Agent and was the first responder in the Nazi Saboteurs and George Dash case in DC.
He served as City Attorney for North Miami 1962-1966, Dade Country Bar Association President, in 1966 he served for one month as interim Dade County Sheriff, in 1966- 1967 President of the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI and an American University Trustee.
He was an active member of numerous community and fraternal organizations, including the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in Miami (33 degree), Chi Phi and Delta Theta Phi Law fraternities, University of Florida Blue Key, BPOE, Lion's Club, and Royal Order of Jesters.
Together with his beloved Rose Marie, they embarked on a journey dedicated to a love of family and devotion to civic service."
Floyd once wrote in the Florida Bar Journal, "It is not required that we(attorneys) be loved but that we be entitled to respect for the significant examples of moral, ethical, and legal worth revealed in and by our labors."