Actually the second was Ed Gurney in 1962, who became the first Republican elected to the Senate from FL via popular vote in 1968. He followed Bill Cramer, who had been the first elected in 1954. There were several others in between Gurney and Shaw, when he was elected after a one-term RINO turned 'Rat apostate was beaten in the '80 'Rat primary. The late J. Herbert Burke represented most of those now 'Rat areas that Shaw has shed before public drunkenness sunk his reelection to Ed Stack in '78 (the aforementioned RINO turned 'Rat) when he was the 3rd elected GOPer in '66. Louis Frey came in '68, followed by Bill Young in '70 (still there today) when he succeeded Cramer following his disastrous Senate bid. Skip Bafalis came next in '72, then the infamous late Richard Kelly in '74, and Bill McCollum (who helped save Kelly's seat for us) and Shaw were tied for 8th place when they arrived 6 years later in the Reagan landslide.
Still don't understand why so many of the crackers voted for Chiles. What a moronic socialist.