Comanche County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census,the population was 121,125,making it the fifth-most populous county in Oklahoma. Its county seat is Lawton. The county was created in 1901 as part of Oklahoma Territory. It was named for the Comanche tribal nation.
Lawton is a city in and the county seat of Comanche County,in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Located in southwestern Oklahoma,approximately 87 mi (140 km) southwest of Oklahoma City,it is the principal city of the Lawton,Oklahoma,metropolitan statistical area. According to the 2020 census,Lawton's population was 90,381,making it the sixth-largest city in the state,and the largest in Western Oklahoma.
Muskogee is the 13th-largest city in Oklahoma and is the county seat of Muskogee County. Home to Bacone College,it lies approximately 48 miles (77 km) southeast of Tulsa. The population of the city was 36,878 as of the 2020 census,a 6.0% decrease from 39,223 in 2010.
Thomas Jeffery Cole is the U.S. representative for Oklahoma's 4th congressional district,serving since 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party and serves as the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Before serving in the House of Representatives,he was the 26th Secretary of State of Oklahoma from 1995 to 1999.
James Brooks Ayres Robertson,sometimes called J. B. A. Robertson,was an American lawyer,judge and the fourth governor of Oklahoma. Robertson was appointed by the state's first governor,Charles N. Haskell,to serve as a district judge.
Isaac Charles Parker,also known as "Hanging Judge" Parker,was an American politician and jurist. He served as a United States representative (congressman) in two separate districts subsequently from Missouri and was appointed as the first United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas,which also had jurisdiction over the adjacent Indian Territory to the west. He was appointed by 18th President Ulysses S. Grant in 1875 and served in the federal judiciary until his death in 1896.
The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma is a Native American reservation occupying portions of southeastern Oklahoma in the United States. At roughly 6,952,960 acres,it is the second-largest reservation in area after the Navajo,exceeding that of eight U.S. states. The seat of government is located in Durant,Oklahoma.
Billy Joe Anoatubby is the 32nd Governor of the Chickasaw Nation,a position he has held since 1987. From 1979 to 1987,Anoatubby served two terms as Lieutenant Governor of the Chickasaw Nation in the administration of Governor Overton James,after being popularly elected to office. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
The Constitution of the State of Oklahoma is the governing document of the U.S. State of Oklahoma. Adopted in 1907,Oklahoma ratified the United States Constitution on November 16,1907,as the 46th U.S. state. At its ratification,the Oklahoma Constitution was the lengthiest governing document of any government in the U.S. All U.S. state constitutions are subject to federal judicial review;any provision can be nullified if it conflicts with the U.S. Constitution.
Dennis Wolf Bushyhead was a leader in the Cherokee Nation after they had removed to Indian Territory. Born into the Wolf Clan,he was elected as Principal Chief,serving two terms,from 1879 to 1887.
Thomas Mitchell Buffington (1855-1938) was a Cherokee Nation politician and an elected district judge.
Samuel Houston Mayes of Scots/English-Cherokee descent,was elected as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory,serving from 1895 to 1899. His maternal grandfather belonged to the Deer clan,and his father was allied with members of the Cherokee Treaty Party in the 1830s,such as the Adair men,Elias Boudinot,and Major Ridge. In the late nineteenth century,his older brother Joel B. Mayes was elected to two terms as Chief of the Cherokee.
Wilburn Cartwright was a lawyer,educator,politician,and United States Army officer in World War II. The town of Cartwright,Oklahoma is named after him. He self-styled himself "the most elected man in Oklahoma government" and served in elected office in both the Oklahoma House of Representatives and the Oklahoma Senate,as a school superintendent,United States House of Representatives member for Oklahoma's 3rd congressional district,Oklahoma Secretary of State,Oklahoma State Auditor,and on the Oklahoma Corporation Commission.
Constantine Buckley Kilgore was a U.S. Representative from Texas.
Clement Vann Rogers was an American politician and judge in Indian Territory. Clem Rogers' parents were both mixed-blood Cherokees who moved to Indian Territory in 1832,several years before the Trail of Tears. Before the American Civil War,Clem allied with the "Treaty Party",a Cherokee faction that supported signing the Treaty of New Echota. When the Civil War broke out,Clem enlisted in the Confederate Army,and served under General Stand Watie. After the war,he became active in Cherokee politics,first elected as a judge in the Cooweescoowee District,then served five terms in the Cherokee Senate. He later served as a delegate to the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention. Rogers was the father of entertainer Will Rogers.
Brian John Bingman is an American politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma who has served in elected and appointed offices since the 1990s. A member of the Republican Party,he was first elected to the Sapulpa city commission in 1992,before being elected mayor by his fellow commissioners in 1994. He would serve in both of these offices until 2004,when he was elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives to represent the 30th district. After one term in the house,Bingman ran for the 12th district of the Oklahoma Senate in 2006 and would hold the seat until term limited in 2016. In 2011,he was elected by Republican senators to serve as the President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate,a position he would hold until retirement in 2016.
Ralph Emerson Campbell was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma.
James Murrell Shackelford was a lawyer,judge,and general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He has the distinction of having captured Confederate cavalry commander John Hunt Morgan in mid-1863,effectively ending "Morgan's Raid".
Steven Dane Russell is President and CEO of JAARS,Inc. He is a retired American soldier and former politician. He served in the United States House of Representatives for Oklahoma's 5th congressional district from 2015 to 2019,after serving in the Oklahoma Senate from 2009 to 2013. Russell is a member of the Republican Party.
African Americans in Oklahoma or Black Oklahomans are residents of the state of Oklahoma who are of African American ancestry. African Americans have a rich history in Oklahoma. An estimated 7.8% of Oklahomans are Black as of the 2020 census,constituting 289,961 individuals.
