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Love County is a county on the southern border of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census,the population was 10,146. Its county seat is Marietta. The county was created at statehood in 1907 and named for Overton Love,a prominent Chickasaw farmer,entrepreneur and politician.
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.
Mangum is a city in and county seat of Greer County,Oklahoma,United States. The population was 3,010 at the 2010 census. It was originally part of Old Greer County in the Texas panhandle. The community was named for A. S. Mangum,who owned the land on which the town was founded in 1882. It became part of the Oklahoma Territory in 1896,and thus part of the state of Oklahoma on November 16,1907.
Muskogee is the thirteenth-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 percent decrease from 39,223 in 2010.
Woodward is a city in and the county seat of Woodward County,Oklahoma,United States. It is the largest city in a nine-county area. The population was 12,133 at the time of the 2020 census.
William Henry Davis "Alfalfa Bill" Murray was an American educator,lawyer,and politician who became active in Oklahoma before statehood as legal adviser to Governor Douglas H. Johnston of the Chickasaw Nation. Although not American Indian,he was appointed by Johnston as the Chickasaw delegate to the 1905 Convention for the proposed State of Sequoyah. Later he was elected as a delegate to the 1906 constitutional convention for the proposed state of Oklahoma;it was admitted in 1907.
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.
The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) regulates insurers and other companies that conduct insurance business in Texas,and assists Texas-based insurance consumers. TDI was founded in 1876 as the Department of Insurance,Statistics and History.
Oneok,Inc. is an American diversified corporation focused primarily on the natural gas industry,and headquartered in Tulsa,Oklahoma. The company is part of the Fortune 500 and S&P 500. Oneok was founded in 1906 as Oklahoma Natural Gas Company,but it changed its corporate name to Oneok in December 1980. It also owns major natural gas liquids (NGL) systems due to the 2005 acquisition of Koch Industries natural gas businesses.
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission is the public utilities commission of the U.S state of Oklahoma run by three statewide elected commissioners. Authorized to employ more than 400 employees,it regulates oil and gas drilling,utilities and telephone companies.
Robert Anthony is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Anthony is serving his fifth consecutive six-year term on the Oklahoma Corporation Commission,where he has served since 1989. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate in 2004,and unsuccessful candidate for United States Congress running against Glenn English in 1990. Anthony is term-limited in 2024.
Jim Roth is an American academic administrator and former politician from Oklahoma. He is dean and professor of law at Oklahoma City University School of Law. A Democrat,Roth served as one of three members of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission from June 2007 through January 2009,having been appointed by Governor Brad Henry.
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.
Martin Luther Thompson was a Texas Choctaw leader and rancher who along with his relatives,William Clyde Thompson (1839–1912),Robert E. Lee Thompson (1872–1959) and John Thurston Thompson (1864–1907),led several families of Choctaws from the Mount Tabor Indian Community in Rusk County,Texas to Pickens County,Chickasaw Nation,I.T.
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.
Love's Travel Stops &Country Stores,doing business as Love's,is an American family-owned and -operated chain of more than 630 truck stops in 42 states in the United States. The company is privately owned and headquartered in Oklahoma City. Love's ranked No. 10 on the 2022 Forbes list of America's largest private companies. Love's has two primary kinds of stores:country stores and travel stops. Country stores are fueling stations with a convenience store attached. The larger travel stops are located along highways and offer additional amenities such as food from restaurant chains such as Arby's,Bojangles,Burger King,Chester's,Dunkin',McDonald's,Taco John's,Subway,Wendy's,Hardee’s/Carls Jr.,truck parking spaces,showers and laundry. The company started adding RV hookups and RV Stops in 2022. Love's had more than 40,000 employees in 2023.
The Enid City Railway Company was a street car franchise in Enid,Oklahoma,from 1907 to 1929.
A.P. Watson was an American farmer,politician,and confederate officer who served as one of the first Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners from 1907 to 1915. He was frequently referred to as the "Potato King of Oklahoma" and was a member of the Democratic Party.
Charles L. Daugherty was an American politician who served as the first Oklahoma Commissioner of Labor from 1907 to 1915.
W.H.L. Campbell was an American attorney and politician who served as the first elected Clerk of the Oklahoma Supreme Court from 1907 to 1914.
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- ↑ Corden, Seth K.; Richards, William B. (1912). The Oklahoma Red Book. Oklahoma City, Okla. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ "Sharon". Oklahoma Historical Society | OHS. The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture . Retrieved 15 October 2023.
- ↑ "Corporation Commissioners Since 1907" (PDF). oklahoma.gov. Oklahoma Corporation Commission . Retrieved 15 October 2023.