Enid is the ninth-largest city in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It is the county seat of Garfield County. As of the 2020 census,the population was 51,308. Enid was founded during the opening of the Cherokee Outlet in the Land Run of 1893,and is named after Enid,a character in Alfred,Lord Tennyson's Idylls of the King. In 1991,the Oklahoma state legislature designated Enid the "purple martin capital of Oklahoma." Enid holds the nickname of "Queen Wheat City" and "Wheat Capital" of Oklahoma and the United States for its immense grain storage capacity,and has the third-largest grain storage capacity in the world.
Shawnee is a city in and the county seat of Pottawatomie County,Oklahoma,United States. The population was 29,857 in 2010,a 4.9 percent increase from the figure of 28,692 in 2000. The city is part of the Oklahoma City-Shawnee Combined Statistical Area and the principal city of the Shawnee Micropolitan Statistical Area.
John Calloway Walton was an American politician and the 5th Governor of Oklahoma,serving the shortest tenure. He was impeached and removed from office shortly into his first term. A populist member of the Democratic Party,Walton previously served as the 18th Mayor of Oklahoma City between 1919 and 1923.
James Allen Rhodes was an American attorney and Republican politician who served as the 61st and 63rd Governor of Ohio from 1963 to 1971 and from 1975 to 1983. Rhodes was one of only seven U.S. governors to serve four four-year terms in office. Rhodes is tied for the sixth-longest gubernatorial tenure in post-Constitutional U.S. history at 5,840 days. He also served as Mayor of Columbus from 1944 to 1952 and Ohio State Auditor from 1953 to 1963.
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.
George Patterson Nigh is an American politician and civic leader from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Nigh served as the 17th and the 22nd governor of Oklahoma and as the eighth and tenth lieutenant governor of Oklahoma. He was the first Oklahoma governor to be re-elected and the first to win all 77 counties in the state. Additionally,short term vacancies in the governor's office twice resulted in Nigh assuming gubernatorial duties while serving as lieutenant governor.
Catherine Ann "Kate" Barnard was the first woman to be elected as a state official in Oklahoma,and the second woman to be elected to a statewide public office in the United States,in 1907. She served as the first Oklahoma Commissioner of Charities and Corrections for two four-year terms,the only position that the 1907 Oklahoma Constitution permitted a woman to hold.
Cassius McDonald Barnes was a soldier in the Union Army in the American Civil War and a lawyer and Republican politician who served as the fourth governor of Oklahoma Territory.
The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals is one of the two highest judicial bodies in the U.S. state of Oklahoma and is part of the Oklahoma Court System,the judicial branch of the Oklahoma state government.
Henry Mahan Beardsley was an attorney,civic leader,and the Mayor of Kansas City,Missouri from 1906 to 1907.
George Seale Armstrong was a Canadian businessman and politician. He served on the Edmonton City Council from 1907 to 1910 and as Mayor of Edmonton from 1910 to 1912.
Robert Alexander Hefner,born in Hunt County,Texas,to William Lafayette Hefner and Sarah Jane Masters Hefner,was a lawyer-turned-politician. He served as mayor of Ardmore,Oklahoma,and of Oklahoma City,and as a justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma. Hefner was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1949. Hefner also became notable because of his work in government,especially in Ardmore and later in Oklahoma City.
David Holt is an American attorney,businessman and Republican politician who is the 38th mayor of Oklahoma City and dean of the Oklahoma City University School of Law. He is a member of the Osage Nation. He served in the Oklahoma Senate from 2010 to 2018,eventually as majority whip.
The 2024 United States elections are scheduled to be held on Tuesday,November 5,2024. During this presidential election year,the president and vice president will be elected. In addition,all 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 34 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate will be contested to determine the membership of the 119th United States Congress. Thirteen state and territorial governorships and numerous other state and local elections will also be contested.
In the 1911 Chicago mayoral election,Democrat Carter Harrison Jr. was elected to his fifth non-consecutive term as mayor,tying the then-record set by his father Carter Harrison Sr. for the most Chicago mayoral election victories. Harrison defeated Republican nominee Charles E. Merriam and Socialist nominee William E. Rodriguez.
John H. Pitchford (1857-1923) was an American jurist from Walhalla,South Carolina,descended from Irish immigrant ancestors. Pitchdford was raised in Walhalla and completed his early education at Newberry College. He then studied law in a private law office,and was admitted to the bar on his 21st birthday. His first legal practice was in Clayton,Georgia,but he soon moved to the city of Gainesville,Georgia.
Leo Meyer (1873-1964) was a politician in Texas and Oklahoma and was the first Jew elected to statewide public office in Oklahoma.
United States gubernatorial elections are scheduled to be held on November 3,2026,in 36 states and three territories. The previous gubernatorial elections for this group of states took place in 2022,except in New Hampshire and Vermont,where governors serve two-year terms and will elect their governors in 2024. Many races have an incumbent who is term-limited.
Daniel Vorhes Lackey was an American politician who served as the Mayor of Oklahoma City between 1910 and 1911.
