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 60 years,between 1966 and 2023.
Bradley Rogers Carson is the 21st President of the University of Tulsa.
Fred Roy Harris was an American politician from Oklahoma who served from 1957 to 1964 as a member of the Oklahoma Senate and from 1964 to 1973 as a member of the United States Senate.
Robert Anthony is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Anthony is serving his sixth 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.
Tom Adelson is an American politician from Oklahoma. He was an Oklahoma State Senator representing the 33rd Senate District,located in Tulsa County,from 2004 to 2012. Adelson is a Democrat who was first elected in 2004. Prior to his election,Adelson served Governor of Oklahoma Brad Henry's first Oklahoma Secretary of Health from 2003 to 2004.
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.
James Paul Lankford is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Oklahoma. A member of the Republican Party,Lankford has represented Oklahoma in the U.S. Senate since 2015. Before his Senate service,he represented Oklahoma's 5th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015.
Joshua Chad Brecheen is an American politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma who has served as the U.S. representative for Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district since 2023. A member of the Republican Party,he represented the 6th district in the Oklahoma Senate from 2010 to 2018. He is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation.
Markwayne Mullin is an American businessman and politician who has served as the junior United States senator from Oklahoma since 2023. A member of the Republican Party,he was elected in a special election in 2022 to serve the remainder of Jim Inhofe's term. Mullin is the first Native American U.S. senator since Ben Nighthorse Campbell retired in 2005. He is also the second Cherokee Nation citizen elected to the Senate;the first,Robert Latham Owen,retired in 1925. Before being elected to the Senate,Mullin served as the U.S. representative for Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district from 2013 to 2023.
The 2014 United States Senate special election in Oklahoma took place on November 4,2014,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Oklahoma,concurrently with the regularly-scheduled election to Oklahoma's other Senate seat,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
Greg Treat is an American Republican politician from Oklahoma and the current President Pro Tempore of the Oklahoma Senate. He represented the 47th district from 2011 to 2024.
The 2024 United States Senate elections were held on November 5,2024,as part of the 2024 United States elections. Regularly scheduled elections were held for 33 out of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate,plus one seat in a special election. Senators are divided into 3 classes whose 6-year terms are staggered so that a different class is elected every 2 years. Class 1 senators faced election in 2024. Republicans flipped four Democratic-held seats,regaining a Senate majority for the first time since 2021.
The 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Oklahoma were held on November 3,2020,to elect the five U.S. representatives from the state of Oklahoma,one from each of the state's five congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2020 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.
Greg McCortney is an American politician who served in the Oklahoma Senate representing the 13th district from 2016 to 2024.
The 2022 United States Senate election in Oklahoma was held on November 8,2022,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Oklahoma. Incumbent senator James Lankford won re-election to a second full term,defeating cybersecurity professional Madison Horn in a landslide,winning all 77 counties with more than 50% of the vote in each.
The 2026 United States Senate elections are scheduled to be held on November 3,2026,with 33 of the 100 seats in the Senate being contested in regular elections,the winners of which will serve six-year terms in the United States Congress from January 3,2027,to January 3,2033. Senators are divided into three groups,or classes,whose terms are staggered so that a different class is elected every two years. Class 2 senators were last elected in 2020,and will be up for election in this cycle.
David Bullard is an American politician who was first elected to the Oklahoma Senate in 2018.
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 elected their governors in 2024. Many of the states with elections in this cycle have incumbents who are officially term-limited.
The 2024 Oklahoma Senate election took place on November 5,2024. The primary elections for the Republican,Democratic,and Libertarian parties' nominations took place on June 18,2024. Oklahoma voters elected state senators to serve four-year terms in 24 of the 48 Senate districts.
Randy Grellner is an American physician and politician who has represented the 21st district of the Oklahoma Senate since 2024.
