Background
He was born to John and Eliza (McCall) Brack in Georgia on June 17, 1837.
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Career
He served in the Florida House of Representatives from Brevard County from 1885 to 1887. The Bracks removed to Alexandria, Louisiana before the outbreak of the American Civil War. During that conflict, the future mayor served in Company Chamber of the 27th Louisiana Infantry Regiment.
They had three daughters before her untimely death: Olive, Bessie, and Josphine Brack.
lieutenant is unclear exactly when Brack settled in the Orlando area. He was certainly there by October 16, 1873, when he was mentioned as guardian ad litem for the orphans of Mistress
Lucinda Hughey Terrell in a lawsuit filed in the circuit court of Orange County, Florida. In 1875, when Orlando was formally incorporated, Brack was elected its first mayor.
He was subsequently re-elected to a second one-year term.
After leaving office, the former mayor remained in the Orlando area as a farmer and fruit grower until at least 1880. They had eight children: John Percy ("Jack"), Rosa Banner, Gussie, Emma Hortense, Ruby B, Blanche Alice, and Lillian Bell Brack, William Jackson, Junior
The Bracks left Orlando to live on the north shore of Lake Tohopekaliga in what is now Osceola County, Florida, where they operated a general store and sawmill at "Brack"s Landing." From that point, he also captained a 35-foot sidewheel steamboat called "Spray" along the inland canals that connected the Kissimmee River valley to Fort Myers, Florida on the Gulf of Mexico. The former mayor retired to a cattle ranch near Narcoossee, Florida, where he died April 30, 1901.
He is buried at Mount Peace Cemetery in Saint Cloud, Florida.
