Logan County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census,the population was 49,555. Its county seat is Guthrie.
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.
James Mountain Inhofe was an American politician who served as a United States senator from Oklahoma from 1994 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party,he was the longest serving U.S. senator from Oklahoma. He served in various elected offices in the state of Oklahoma for nearly sixty years,between 1966 and 2023.
Henry Louis Bellmon was an American Republican politician from the U.S. State of Oklahoma. A member of the Oklahoma Legislature,he went on to become both the 18th and 23rd governor of Oklahoma,mainly in the 1960s and again in the 1980s,as well as a two-term United States Senator in the 1970s. He was the first Republican to serve as Governor of Oklahoma and,after his direct predecessor George Nigh,only the second governor to be reelected.
The Territory of Oklahoma was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 2,1890,until November 16,1907,when it was joined with the Indian Territory under a new constitution and admitted to the Union as the state of Oklahoma.
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.
Robert Lee Williams was an American lawyer,judge,and the third governor of Oklahoma. Williams played a role in the drafting of the Oklahoma Constitution and served as the first Oklahoma Supreme Court chief justice. He also served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma. As Governor,Williams oversaw the state's response to the United States Supreme Court's ruling against Jim Crow laws and its involvement in World War I. He instituted the Oklahoma State Board of Affairs,which provided central purchasing services to state agencies. Due to his direct administrative role and concentration of power,Williams counteracted the loss of executive power under Governor Lee Cruce.
The Oklahoma House of Representatives is the lower house of the legislature of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Its members introduce and vote on bills and resolutions,provide legislative oversight for state agencies,and help to craft the state's budget. The upper house of the Oklahoma Legislature is the Oklahoma Senate.
Jari Askins is an American judge,lawyer,and Democratic politician from the state of Oklahoma. She was the 15th lieutenant governor of Oklahoma,being the second woman and the first female Democrat to hold that position.
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.
John Hazelton Cotteral was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.
The First Oklahoma Legislature was the first meeting of the legislative branch of the government of Oklahoma,composed of the Oklahoma Senate and the Oklahoma House of Representatives. The meeting took place from December 2,1907,to May 26,1908,in the Guthrie City Hall Building during the first year of the only term of Governor Charles Haskell.
Joseph Pierre Foucart (1848–1917) was a prominent architect during the opening of the Oklahoma Territory. The city of Guthrie,Oklahoma's skyline is dominated by buildings designed by him.
The 1924 United States Senate election in Oklahoma took place on November 4,1924. Incumbent Democratic Senator Robert Latham Owen declined to run for re-election. In a crowded Democratic primary,impeached former Governor Jack C. Walton won the party's nomination with a narrow plurality. In the general election,he faced businessman William B. Pine,the Republican nominee. Though Democratic presidential nominee John W. Davis narrowly won the state over President Calvin Coolidge,Walton's unpopularity and controversy caused Democrats to lose the seat;Pine defeated Walton in a landslide.
Stephanie Irene Bice is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Oklahoma's 5th congressional district since 2021. She is the first Iranian American to be elected to Congress. A member of the Republican Party,Bice previously represented the 22nd district in the Oklahoma Senate from 2014 to 2020.
The 2022 Oklahoma Senate general election were held on November 8,2022. The primary elections for the Republican,Democratic,and Libertarian parties' nominations took place on June 28,2022. Runoff primary elections,if no candidate received 50% in the June 28 vote,took place on August 23. All candidates had to file between the days of April 13–15,2022. Oklahoma voters elected state senators in 24 of the state's 48 Senate districts. State senators served four-year terms in the Oklahoma Senate.
Leo Meyer was a politician in Texas and Oklahoma and was the first Jew elected to statewide public office in Oklahoma.
William Macklin Cross was an American politician who served as the first Oklahoma Secretary of State from November 16,1907,to August 3,1910.
P. J. Yeager was an American politician who served in the Oklahoma Senate from statehood in 1907 until 1911.
Patrick S. Nagle was an American political organizer who served as the U.S. Marshal for Oklahoma Territory between 1896 and 1897. During the 1890s,he was a prominent Democratic Party organizer. After 1908,he joined the Socialist Party of Oklahoma as an organizer.
