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Oklahoma Governor George Nigh and his wife Donna appeared in walk-on roles ( playing themselves as Governor and First Lady of Oklahoma ) during the show's first month on the air ; cast member Lisby Larson ( Paige Marshall ) serenaded the couple with a rendition of " Oklahoma !".
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Oklahoma and Governor
At 9: 45 am CST, Governor Frank Keating declared a state of emergency and ordered all non-essential workers in the Oklahoma City area to be released from their duties for their safety.
Vice President Dick Cheney, former president Clinton, Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry, Frank Keating, Governor of Oklahoma at the time of the bombing, and other political dignitaries attended the service and gave speeches in which they emphasized that " goodness overcame evil ".
* Cassius McDonald Barnes, American Civil War soldier, served as the 4th Governor of Oklahoma Territory ; born in Livingston.
* Montford Stokes ( 1762 – 1842 ), United States Senator, Governor of North Carolina ( 1816 – 1832 ), appointed by President Andrew Jackson to lead the Federal Indian Commission in what is now Oklahoma ; he is believed to be the only veteran of the Revolutionary War buried in that state.
Lee Cruce, attorney, second Governor of Oklahoma, Crittenden County native, Democratic Party ( United States ).
* J. J. McAlester ( 1842 – 1920 ), U. S. Marshal for Indian Territory ( 1893 – 1897 ), Confederate Army captain, merchant in and founder of McAlester, Oklahoma as well as the developer of the coal mining industry in eastern Oklahoma, one of three members of the first Oklahoma Corporation Commission ( 1907 – 1911 ) and the second Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma ( 1911 – 1915 ).
Also during this time about 1896, the third Governor of Oklahoma and first Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, Robert L. Williams, moved to Atoka ( then a part of the old Indian Territory ) from Troy, Alabama.
* Robert L. Williams – First Chief Justice of Oklahoma Supreme Court, third Governor of the State of Oklahoma.
* Henry Bellmon, first Republican Governor of Oklahoma ( 1963 – 1967, 1991 – 1995 ) and U. S. Senator ( 1969 – 1981 )
* Kenneth Corn-former Oklahoma State Senator and Oklahoma State Representative who was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma in 2010.
* Raymond Gary ( 1908-1993 ), Governor of Oklahoma
* Henry Bellmon, former Oklahoma Governor was born in Tonkawa, but raised in Billings.
The town gets its name from J. J. McAlester, who later became Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma and was immortalized as a character in the novel True Grit, which was then made into feature films in 1969 and 2010.
Former Oklahoma Governor George Nigh and Oklahoma Supreme Court Chief Justice Steven W. Taylor also hail from McAlester.
Oklahoma and George
Named for President George Washington, it is the smallest county in Oklahoma in total area, adjacent to the largest county in Oklahoma, Osage County.
Eagle Dance, Choctaw, painted by George Catlin near Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, 1835-7
* Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture-Custer, George Armstrong
* George Washington Steele, Indiana Congressman and first governor of the Oklahoma Territory.
( Shirk, George H, Oklahoma Place Names, University of Oklahoma Press, 1974 )
* Shirk, George H .; Oklahoma Place Names ; University of Oklahoma Press ; Norman, Oklahoma ; 1987: ISBN 0-8061-2028-2.
* Shirk, George H .; Oklahoma Place Names ; University of Oklahoma Press ; Norman, Oklahoma ; 1987: ISBN 0-8061-2028-2.
Shirk, George H .; Oklahoma Place Names ; University of Oklahoma Press ; Norman, Oklahoma ; 1987: ISBN 0-8061-2028-2.
* Shirk, George H. Oklahoma Place Names.
Shirk, George H .; Oklahoma Place Names ; University of Oklahoma Press ; Norman, Oklahoma ; 1987: ISBN 0-8061-2028-2.
* Shirk, George H. Oklahoma Place Names ; University of Oklahoma Press ; Norman, Oklahoma ; 1987: ISBN 0-8061-2028-2.
* Shirk, George H. Oklahoma Place Names ; University of Oklahoma Press ; Norman, Oklahoma ; 1987: ISBN 0-8061-2028-2.
Oklahoma and Nigh
Henry was the third governor and second Democrat in Oklahoma history to hold two consecutive terms, along with Democrat George Nigh and Republican Frank Keating.
Keating won in a landslide victory, becoming only the second Governor in Oklahoma history to win two consecutive terms ( after George Nigh ) and ( as of 2010 ) the only Republican to ever do so.
* George Patterson Nigh ( Governor of Oklahoma )
Some of its more famous alumni include past governors Robert S. Kerr and George Nigh, former U. S. Representative Lyle Boren, Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice Tom Colbert, and U. S. Army General James D. Thurman.
* George Nigh, former Oklahoma Governor
Yvonne Kauger ( born August 3, 1937 ), She is currently a Justice on the Oklahoma Supreme Court, and was appointed to the Court's District 4 seat by Governor George Nigh in 1984, and served as Chief Justice from 1997 to 1998.
Oklahoma and wife
He asked his wife, Tiana Rodgers, to go with him to Mexican Texas, but she preferred to stay at their cabin and trading post in Oklahoma.
Osage is the main town of the movie " Cimarron " ( 1931 ) based upon the novel by Edna Ferber, a story about a newspaper editor who settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century: http :// www. imdb. com / title / tt0021746 /.
Jeane Duane Jordan was born in Duncan, Oklahoma, the daughter of an oilfield wildcatter, Welcher F. Jordan, and his wife, the former Leona Kile.
On 17 March 1968, Roberts and his wife were received as members of the Boston Avenue United Methodist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma by Dr. Finis Crutchfield, then pastor.
He has taught screen writing at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma where he once resided with his wife, the violinist Nell Gotkovsky.
Cooper's grandparents were Philip Cooper, and his wife, Cora Sterns, co-owners of the first general store in Maud, Oklahoma.
The Party nominated Barry Commoner for President, and La Donna Harris ( wife of Democratic U. S. Senator Fred Harris of Oklahoma ) for Vice President.
To help pay for their education at Oklahoma State, he and his wife operated a janitorial service ( Don Nickles Professional Cleaning Service ) in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
On May 28, 1988, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Tyler married his second wife, clothing designer Teresa Barrick.
Deedee left her promising dance career to become a wife and mother and now runs a ballet school in Oklahoma.
Her parents, Joseph Sprague Gibbs and his actress wife Katharine Clinton Francis, were married on December 3, 1903 in New York City at the Church of the Transfiguration, and they moved to Oklahoma City the following year.
At home in Oklahoma City, his wife, Jan Kalsu, gave birth to his son, James Robert Kalsu Jr., on July 23.
To the Wonder, a romantic drama written and directed by Terrence Malick, sees McAdams play a horse ranch worker in Oklahoma, believed to be based on Malick's current wife.
He was reared in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of day laborer Charles William Boyd and his wife, the former Lida Wilkens.
She was born Doralyn Emma Cartwright in McAlester, Oklahoma, the daughter of U. S. Congressman Wilburn Cartwright and his wife Carrie ( née Staggs ).
Doolin later escaped on July 5, traveling to take refuge with his wife in Lawson, Oklahoma Territory.
Halliburton and his wife, Vida C Tabor Halliburton, then moved to Duncan, Oklahoma where Halliburton invented, perfected, and patented a new method of oil well cementing.
At DePauw Lilienthal met his future wife, Helen Marian Lamb ( 1896-1999 ), a fellow student who was born in Oklahoma and moved with her family to Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 1913.
His official running mate was La Donna Harris, Native-American wife of Fred Harris, the former Democratic Senator from Oklahoma, although she was replaced on the ballot in Ohio by Wretha Hanson.
A 2008 Deseret News article described McLean as a man who had " pursued Pratt across Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas, angry that his estranged wife, Eleanor, had become Pratt's 12th wife.
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