John Tyler Hammons

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John Tyler Hammons
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City Attorney of Checotah
Assumed office
January 2019

2008 presidential election

Hammons endorsed former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani early in the 2008 Republican presidential primaries. When Giuliani withdrew from the race, Hammons endorsed Arizona Senator John McCain. Hammons was also Oklahoma's youngest at-large delegate to the 2008 Republican National Convention. [20] While at the RNC, on his 20th birthday and the final day of the RNC, Hammons had the opportunity to meet Giuliani.

In January 2009, Hammons attended the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States in conjunction with the winter session of the United States Conference of Mayors. [21]

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Political offices
Preceded by
Wren Stratton
Mayor of Muskogee, Oklahoma
2008–2012
Succeeded by
Bob Coburn