On May 20, 1995, primarily as a response to the Oklahoma City bombing of April 19, 1995, the United States Secret Service closed off Pennsylvania Avenue to vehicular traffic in front of the White House from the eastern edge of Lafayette Park to 17th Street.

* May 20 – U. S. President Bill Clinton indefinitely closes part of the street in front of the White House, Pennsylvania Avenue, to vehicular traffic in response to the Oklahoma City bombing.

After the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the Secret Service closed the portion of Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House to all vehicular traffic.

The band continued to tour throughout the fall of 2006 stopping in Montreal, the Virgin Festival on the Toronto Islands, Atlantic City's House of Blues, The University of Vermont in Burlington, their hometown Oklahoma City, the Austin City Limits Music Festival in Austin, Texas, and New York City, NY as well as several other cities.

Oklahoma State Representative Paul D. Roan ( D-Tishomingo ), who represents the residents of Stringtown in the Oklahoma House of Representatives, authored HB 1616, which in effect repealed the statute regarding speed traps.

The mission had one of the earliest presses in Oklahoma, the Park Hill Publishing House.

* Paul D. Roan, Oklahoma House of Representatives

* Jim Reese, former member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives and commissioner of the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture

Dale DeWitt, the majority leader of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, resides in Braman.

The Sod House Museum, listed on the National Register of Historic Places and also an Oklahoma Historic site, is located north of town in Alfalfa County.

* George Faught, current Representative from Oklahoma State House District 14 ; first Republican in state history to represent Muskogee-based district

The Village is represented in Congress by James Lankford, in the Oklahoma Senate by David Holt, and in the Oklahoma House by Randy McDaniel and David Dank.

Warr Acres is represented in the Oklahoma Senate by David Holt ( politician ) and in the Oklahoma House by Rep. Jason Nelson and Rep. Elise Hall.

Stillwater is located in districts 33 and 34 of the Oklahoma State House of Representatives and is represented by Republican Lee Denney in the 33rd district and Democrat Cory Williams in the 34th district.

In the United States House of Representatives, Stillwater is represented by Republican Frank Lucas, of the third district in Oklahoma.

McAlester is known in political circles for having been the home base of several noted American politicians-U. S. Speaker of the House Carl Albert, who was once a heartbeat from the presidency, and longtime Oklahoma State Senator Gene Stipe, whose career ended in a series of legal problems.

* Kris Steele, Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives

The Cedar County Court House was torn down by white settlers sometime after Oklahoma ’ s statehood in 1907, after which it ceased serving any legal use.

* George Faught-Member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from District 14

Haskell State School of Agriculture opened in the Broken Arrow, Oklahoma Opera House on November 15, 1909.

* Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives

After all votes are collected, the Legislature of Oklahoma shall convene in the hall of the House of Representatives and the Speaker of the House of Representatives announce the results of the elections in the presence of a majority of each branch of the Legislature.

Category: Members of the United States House of Representatives from Oklahoma

Steven Michael " Steve " Largent ( born September 28, 1954 ) is a retired American football player, enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and a former U. S. Congressman, having served in the U. S. House of Representatives for Oklahoma from 1994 until 2002.

He was a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1967 to 1969, and a member of the Oklahoma Senate from 1969 until 1977, the last four of those years as minority leader.

Cruce himself escaped impeachment in the Oklahoma House of Representatives by a single vote, similar to U. S. President Andrew Johnson.

Impeachment demands filled the Oklahoma State Capitol and the leaders of the Oklahoma House of Representatives and Oklahoma Senate acted by calling a special session on October 2.

There, the Oklahoma House of Representatives raised charges, which the Oklahoma Senate as the Court of Impeachment agreed to, against Governor Johnston and many members of his administration.

Category: Members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives

In the U. S., unemployment had reached 24. 9 %, a drought persisted in the central United States particularly Oklahoma and Texas, businesses and families defaulted on record numbers of loans, and more than 5, 000 banks had failed.

The United States Congress failed to admit the proposed State of Sequoyah into the Union, preferring instead to await a possible federation of the Indian Territory and Territory of Oklahoma.

Its founder, Warren A. Bechtel, started as an employee of the burgeoning United States railroad industry in 1898 after his Oklahoma cattle ranch failed.

Warren Bechtel started as an employee of the burgeoning United States railroad industry in 1898 after his Oklahoma cattle ranch failed.

His films often generated interest and other times failed, such as Bless the Beasts and Children ( 1971 ), Oklahoma Crude ( 1973 ), The Domino Principle ( 1977 ) and The Runner Stumbles ( 1979 ).

Efforts to recall support for these missionaries failed in a 1925 convention in Oklahoma City and a 1926 convention in Memphis, Tennessee.

Some members of the United States Congress, notably Senator Don Nickles of Oklahoma, tried to block implementation of Measure 16, but failed.

Fearing that aid recipients would become dependent on their assistance, Oklahoma City administrators sparingly doled out federal and local relief funds ; city leaders initiated a campaign to discourage migration into the city ; local newspapers failed to print the location of soup lines ; voters rejected a bond issue to bolster relief funds ; and the city council declined to increase taxes to boost its depression relief budget.

In July 2006, Schultz sold the team to a group of businessmen from Oklahoma City for $ 350 million having failed to get the city of Seattle to give him a new arena on very lucrative terms to him.

At that time, newspapers in Nebraska and Oklahoma noted that Coburn failed to criticize very similar earmarks that benefited Oklahoma.

The 1910 Federal Census had resulted in Oklahoma being granted three seats in the United States Congress, tempting him to run in the Democratic primary for his district's seat, but he failed to receive the party ’ s nomination.

The Ponca arrived in Oklahoma too late to plant crops that year, and the government failed to provide them with the farming equipment it had promised as part of the deal.

As a result of the failed negotiation with the Oklahoma Ford Dealers, the Thunder decided to terminate the existing naming rights agreement, which was allowed under the original contract.

On October 21, 2010, because of the ongoing negotiation for the naming rights for the arena, and because of its failed negotiation with the Oklahoma Ford Dealers, it was announced that the arena would be called the Oklahoma City Arena.

The Thunder traded Smith to the New Orleans Hornets along with Chris Wilcox and draft rights to Devon Hardin on February 17, 2009 for Tyson Chandler but on February 18, 2009 the trade was rescinded after Tyson Chandler failed a physical with Oklahoma City.