Jerry Demings has served as the Orange County mayor since 2018; he previously served as sheriff of Orange County from 2009 to 2018.

Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings on Friday said he was suspending his campaign to be Florida’s next governor after being diagnosed with cancer.

Demings is a Central Florida trailblazer. He was the first African American to serve as Orlando’s police chief in 1998 and later served as the first African American Orange County Sheriff from 2008 to...