27th Oklahoma Legislature

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27th Oklahoma Legislature
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Leadership
Harold Garvin (D)
Clint G. Livingston (D)
Composition:
Senate
41   3  
House
111   10  

The Twenty-seventh Oklahoma Legislature was a meeting of the legislative branch of the government of Oklahoma, composed of the Oklahoma Senate and the Oklahoma House of Representatives. The state legislature met in regular session at the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City from January 6 to July 3, 1959, during the term of Governor J. Howard Edmondson. [1]

Contents

Dates of session

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Leadership

Democratic leadership

Republican leadership

Members

Senate

DistrictNameParty
1Leon B. Field Democrat
2Charles M. WilsonDemocrat
2S. S. McColginDemocrat
3Ben EasterlyDemocrat
4Basil WilsonDemocrat
5Ryan KerrDemocrat
6Ed BerrongDemocrat
6Byron DacusDemocrat
7Tom Morford Rep
8Floyd CarrierRepublican
9Roy GranthamRepublican
10Robert BreedenRepublican
11Everett CollinsDemocrat
12Louis H. RitzhauptDemocrat
13Oliver WalkerDemocrat
13Boyd CowdenDemocrat
14Jean PazoureckDemocrat
14George MiskovskyDemocrat
15Walt AllenDemocrat
15Don BaldwinDemocrat
16Roy C. BoecherDemocrat
17Harold GarvinDemocrat
17Fred HarrisDemocrat
18Tom TippsDemocrat
19Robert L. BaileyDemocrat
19Herbert HopeDemocrat
20 Keith Cartwright Democrat
21Clem HamiltonDemocrat
22Hugh SandlinDemocrat
23 Buck Cartwright Democrat
24Leroy McClendonDemocrat
25 Gene Stipe Democrat
26Gene HerndonDemocrat
27Harold ShoemakeDemocrat
27Milam KingDemocrat
28Ray FineDemocrat
29George PitcherDemocrat
30J. R. Hall Jr.Democrat
31Yates LandDemocrat
32Tom Payne Jr.Democrat
33 Clem McSpadden Democrat
34Frank MahanDemocrat
35Bob TrentDemocrat
36Joe Bailey CobbDemocrat

House of Representatives

NamePartyCounty
W. H. LangleyDemAdair
Frank ReneauDemAlfalfa
Robert CookseyDemAtoka
George KarnesDemBeaver
Holland MeachamDemBeckham
James BurnhamDemBlaine
Harry J. W. Belvin DemBryan
Earl Cartwright DemBryan
Robert GoodfellowDemCaddo
James KardokusDemCaddo
Ralph WatkinsDemCanadian
Martin DyerDemCarter
Rex SpargerDemCarter
William WillisDemCherokee
Lucien SpearDemChoctaw
Carl EtlingRepCimarron
Kenneth PoynorDemCleveland
Leland Wolf DemCleveland
Delbert InmanDemCoal
Charles OzmunDemComanche
Jim TaliaferroDemComanche
James WittDemCotton
Richard Wheatley Jr.DemCraig
Heber Finch Jr.DemCreek
William ShibleyDemCreek
Lou Stockton AllardDemCreek
Robert RichardsonDemCuster
Wiley Sparkman DemDelaware
Roger WilcoxDemDewey
A. R. LarasonDemEllis
John N. CampRepGarfield
Richard RomangRepGarfield
Jesse DanielDemGarvin
Glen HamDemGarvin
Jefferson Lee DavisDemGrady
Robert ClarkDemGrady
John A. LanceDemGrady
A. E. GreenDemGrant
Elmo HurstDemGreer
R.H. LynchDemHarmon
J. E. BouseDemHarper
Samuel MitchellDemHaskell
Stanley Huser Jr.DemHughes
Maurice WillisDemJackson
Bill Bradley DemJefferson
Kenneth ConverseDemJohnston
John HoweDemKay
Raymond CraigRepKay
Milton PriebeRepKingfisher
William MetcalfDemKiowa
Jim CookDemLatimer
Tom TrawDemLeFlore
Ralph VandiverDemLeFlore
Barbour CoxDemLincoln
Clarence HallDemLincoln
Dick FogartyDemLogan
Clint G. LivingstonDemLove
Art BowerRepMajor
William BondDemMarshall
John Wilkerson Jr.DemMayes
James C. Nance DemMcClain
Virgil JumperDemMcCurtain
Kelsie JonesDemMcCurtain
Martin OdomDemMcIntosh
Carl WilliamsDemMurray
Bill HaworthDemMuskogee
Russell RubyDemMuskogee
George SprakerDemMuskogee
Henry DolezalRepNoble
Bill ShipleyDemNowata
Harlon AveyDemOkfuskee
Red AndrewsDemOklahoma
Bryce BaggettDemOklahoma
Earl Foster Jr.DemOklahoma
G. M. FullerDemOklahoma
J. D. McCartyDemOklahoma
Jack SkaggsDemOklahoma
Cleeta John RogersDemOklahoma
Ed ColeDemOkmulgee
O.E. RichesonDemOkmulgee
Shockley Shoemake DemOsage
Virgil TinkerDemOsage
Robert LollarDemOttawa
Joseph MountfordDemOttawa
Rex PrivettDemPawnee
J. H. ArringtonDemPayne
H. L. SparksDemPayne
Willard GotcherDemPittsburg
William SkeithDemPittsburg
Ray Van HooserDemPittsburg
Lonnie AbbottDemPontotoc
Robert FordDemPontotoc
Henry RobertsDemPottawatomie
John LevergoodDemPottawatomie
Tom StevensDemPottawatomie
Bob HargraveDemPushmataha
Jodie MoadDemRoger Mills
Bill BriscoeDemRogers
Laurence HowzeDemSeminole
Bucky BucklerDemSeminole
Allen G. NicholsDemSeminole
Noble StewartDemSequoyah
Edward BondDemStephens
James BullardDemStephens
Frank OgdenDemTexas
Frank PattersonDemTillman
Ed Bradley DemTulsa
Grant ForsytheDemTulsa
Robert HopkinsDemTulsa
Gene HowardDemTulsa
Alex JohnstonDemTulsa
John W. McCune DemTulsa
Jack McGaheyDemTulsa
Vol Howard OdomDemWagoner
Clyde SareDemWashington
Denzil GarrisonRepWashington
Don GreenhawDemWashita
A. L. MurrowRepWoods
Don J. WilliamsRepWoodward

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 A Century to Remember Archived September 10, 2012, at the Wayback Machine , Oklahoma House of Representatives Archived June 22, 2013, at the Wayback Machine (accessed June 16, 2013)
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  3. Historic Members Archived 2013-07-11 at the Wayback Machine , Okhouse.gov. (accessed June 18, 2013)