Dan V. Lackey | |
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Mayor of Oklahoma City | |
In office October 18, 1910 –June 8, 1911 | |
Preceded by | Henry Scales |
Succeeded by | Whit M. Grant |
Oklahoma City Councilor | |
In office 1908–1910 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Lawrence County,Illinois,U.S. | November 2,1877
Died | January 14,1959 81) Tulsa,Oklahoma,U.S. | (aged
Daniel Vorhes Lackey was an American politician who served as the Mayor of Oklahoma City between 1910 and 1911.
Daniel Vorhes Lackey was born in Lawrence County,Illinois,on November 2,1877. [1] He served on the Oklahoma City Council from 1908 to 1910,when he was appointed Mayor of Oklahoma City when Henry Scales resigned. He campaigned alongside other city officials to make Oklahoma City the capital of Oklahoma in the 1910 Oklahoma elections. He served between October 18,1910,and June 8,1911. During World War II he moved to Abilene,Texas. He later moved to Tulsa and died on January 14,1959. [2]
Yukon is a city in eastern Canadian County,Oklahoma,United States. The population was 23,630 at the 2020 census. Founded in the 1890s,the town was named in reference to a gold rush in Yukon Territory,Canada,at the time. Historically,Yukon served as an urban center for area farmers and the site of a milling operation. Currently,it is primarily a residential community for people who work in the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area.
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Guthrie is a city and county seat in Logan County,Oklahoma,United States,and a part of the Oklahoma City Metroplex. The population was 10,191 at the 2010 census,a 2.7 percent increase from the figure of 9,925 in the 2000 census. First known as a railroad station stop,after the Land Run of 1889,Guthrie immediately gained 10,000 new residents,who began to develop the town. It was rapidly improved and was designated as the territorial capital,and in 1907 as the first state capital of Oklahoma. In 1910,state voters chose the larger Oklahoma City as the new capital in a special election.
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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.
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Theodore Payne Thurston was the second missionary bishop of Oklahoma in the Episcopal Church between 1919 and 1926.
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