Rogers County is located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census,the population was 95,240,making it the sixth-most populous county in Oklahoma. The county seat is Claremore. Rogers County is included in the Tulsa,OK metropolitan statistical area.
Claremore is a city and the county seat of Rogers County in Green Country or northeastern Oklahoma,United States. The population was 19,580 at the 2020 census,a 5.4 percent increase over the figure of 18,581 recorded in 2010. Located in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. It is home of Rogers State University.
James Mountain Inhofe is an American retired politician who served as a United States senator from Oklahoma from 1994 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party,he is 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.
Brad Rogers Carson is the 21st President of the University of Tulsa.
Fred Roy Harris is an American former politician who served as a U.S. senator from Oklahoma from 1964 to 1973.
Dewey Follett Bartlett Sr. was an American politician who served as the 19th governor of Oklahoma from 1967 to 1971,following his fellow Republican,Henry Bellmon. In 1966,he became the first Roman Catholic elected governor of Oklahoma,defeating the Democratic nominee,Preston J. Moore of Oklahoma City. He was defeated for reelection in 1970 by Tulsa attorney David Hall in the closest election in state history. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1972 and served one term. In 1978,he was diagnosed with lung cancer and did not run for reelection that year. He died of complications of lung cancer two months after retiring from the Senate in 1979.
Rogers State University (RSU) is a public university in Claremore,Oklahoma. It also has branch campuses in Bartlesville and Pryor Creek.
Clem Rogers McSpadden was an American rodeo announcer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as a U.S. Representative from Oklahoma's 2nd Congressional District for one full term from 1973 to 1975. Prior to his election to the U.S. House,McSpadden was a member of the Oklahoma Senate between 1954 and 1972. He was the grandnephew of Oklahoma comedian and actor Will Rogers.
The Oklahoma Senate is the upper house of the two houses of the Legislature of Oklahoma,the other being the Oklahoma House of Representatives. The total number of senators is set at 48 by the Oklahoma Constitution.
M. Susan Savage is an American Democratic politician from Oklahoma. She was the 36th Mayor of Tulsa from 1992 to 2002,the first woman to hold that office. From 2003 to 2011,she was the 29th Secretary of State of Oklahoma.
Virgil Glenn Coffee is an American lawyer and Republican politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Coffee was the 30th Oklahoma Secretary of State,having been appointed by Governor Mary Fallin. He served from January 10,2011,until he resigned effective February 1,2013. He was the first Republican President Pro Tempore,having previously served as a Co-President Pro Tempore during the previous legislature.
James Oliver Ellison was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
Stratton Taylor is an American attorney and was the longest-serving President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Elected as President pro tempore on a unanimous,bipartisan vote in 1995,he served eight years.
The Forty-first Oklahoma Legislature was a meeting of the legislative branch of the government of Oklahoma,composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives. It met in Oklahoma City from January 6,1987,to January 3,1989,during the term of Governor Henry Bellmon.
The Fortieth Oklahoma Legislature was a meeting of the legislative branch of the government of Oklahoma,composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives. It met in Oklahoma City from January 8,1985,to January 6,1987,during the term of Governor George Nigh. It was marked by the enactment of the Executive Branch Reform Act of 1986 and the establishment of the franchise tax in Oklahoma.
Marvin York is an American former politician in the state of Oklahoma. A native of Kansas,he moved with his parental family to Oklahoma,where he completed his high school and college education. After graduation,he became a public school teacher and simultaneously began studying for a law degree. He entered politics by winning a seat in the state House of Representatives,then in the state senate,where he also served as President pro tempore. He retired from his legislative career in 1984.
Richard Carlisle Crawford is an American politician. He served as mayor of Tulsa,Oklahoma from 1986 to 1988. A Republican,he defeated independent Patty Eaton and 18 other candidates in the 1986 election for the mayor's chair. He was defeated in 1988 for re-election by Rodger Randle. He is an alumnus of Ohio State University.
Penny Baldwin Williams was an American Democratic Party politician from Oklahoma. Williams served as a legislator in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1981 to 1988,representing District 70. She later was elected to the Oklahoma Senate,representing District 33,from 1989 to 2004. Senator Williams authored important bills on education during her time in the legislature,including the historic education reform act. Williams also authored a series of bills to strengthen math and science,and the bill creating the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics. A supporter of the arts,Williams influenced art education in public schools,and was instrumental in the creation of the Art in Public Places Act.
Calvin Jackson Hobson III is an American politician in the state of Oklahoma.
Napoleon Bonaparte Johnson was born on January 17,1891,in Maysville,Oklahoma. He was the oldest child of John Wade and Sarah Johnson,who had three other children,as well. John Johnson was half Cherokee,and his wife was white,making Napoleon and his siblings one-quarter Cherokee. The father was a professional stock trader and an elder in a local Presbyterian church. John raised his son like any other native Cherokee boy and saw to it that he started his education in a local Presbyterian mission school. He moved to Claremore in 1905,which he called his home most of his life. His formal education ended with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree at Cumberland University.
