H. R. Cline | |
|---|---|
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| 6th Mayor of Tulsa | |
| In office 1904–1905 | |
| Preceded by | George Mowbray |
| Succeeded by | Charles LaFayette Reeder |
H.R. Cline was an American politician who served as the sixth Mayor of Tulsa from 1904 to 1905. He was a real estate investor and businessman before his election. During his tenure he secured private funding for the 11th Street Bridge and converted the Tulsa Fire Department from a volunteer to a paid fire department. [1]
The Tulsa race massacre,also known as the Tulsa race riot or the Black Wall Street massacre,was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist massacre that took place between May 31 and June 1,1921,when mobs of white residents,some of whom had been appointed as deputies and armed by city government officials,attacked black residents and destroyed homes and businesses of the Greenwood District in Tulsa,Oklahoma. The event is considered one of the worst incidents of racial violence in American history. The attackers burned and destroyed more than 35 square blocks of the neighborhood—at the time one of the wealthiest black communities in the United States,colloquially known as "Black Wall Street".
Tulsa is the second-most populous city in the state of Oklahoma,after Oklahoma City,and is the 47th-most populous city in the United States. The population was 413,066 as of the 2020 census. It is the principal municipality of the Tulsa metropolitan area,a region with 1,034,123 residents. The city serves as the county seat of Tulsa County,the most densely populated county in Oklahoma,with urban development extending into Osage,Rogers and Wagoner counties.
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.
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.
The City of Tulsa has a mayor-council form of government. This form of government has been in place since 1989,at which time Tulsa converted from a city commission form of government. The mayor is elected by the entire population and each of the 9 Councilors are elected from districts based on population.
The Tulsa Golden Hurricane men's basketball team represents the University of Tulsa in Tulsa,in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The team participates in the American Athletic Conference. The Golden Hurricane are led by head coach Eric Konkol,hired from Louisiana Tech on March 21,2022 to replace Frank Haith who had resigned.
The Tulsa Golden Hurricane football program represents the University of Tulsa in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) level. Tulsa has competed in the American Athletic Conference since the 2014 season and was previously a member of Conference USA (C-USA). The team is led by head coach Kevin Wilson. Tulsa plays its home games at Skelly Field at H. A. Chapman Stadium in Tulsa,Oklahoma. The University of Tulsa has the smallest undergraduate enrollment of all schools that participate at the FBS level.
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.
Dewey Follett Bartlett Jr. is an American politician and businessman who served as the 39th Mayor of Tulsa,Oklahoma. An oil industry executive and political figure in Tulsa,Bartlett was the Republican nominee for mayor of Tulsa in the 2009 election,and was elected as Tulsa's 39th mayor on November 10,2009. He was re-elected in 2013,but was defeated in his second reelection bid in 2016.
Rodger Allen Randle is a retired American politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. He served twice as President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate and was a member of the Oklahoma Senate from 1972 to 1988. He also served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1970-1972 and as mayor of Tulsa,Oklahoma from 1988-1992.
George Theron Bynum IV is an American politician and lobbyist who has served as the 40th mayor of Tulsa,Oklahoma since 2016. Bynum was first elected to the Tulsa City Council representing the ninth district in 2008 as a Republican and served four terms before running for mayor in 2016.
John Kevin Stitt is an American businessman and politician serving as the 28th governor of Oklahoma since 2019. A member of the Republican Party,he was elected in 2018,defeating Democrat and former state Attorney General Drew Edmondson with 54.3% of the vote. Stitt was reelected to a second term in 2022,defeating Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister,a Republican turned Democrat,with 55.4% of the vote. A member of the Cherokee Nation,Stitt is the second Native American governor after former Oklahoma governor Johnston Murray.
Philip Matthew Pinnell is an American politician serving as the 17th lieutenant governor of Oklahoma,since 2019. Pinnell is also serving as the first Oklahoma Secretary of Tourism &Branding. Pinnell is a member of the Republican Party.
Monroe Nichols IV is an American politician and former college football player who has served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from the 72nd district since 2016. He is the first African-American to represent the district. In July 2023,he announced he would not seek re-election to the Oklahoma House in order to run in the 2024 Tulsa mayoral election.
The Tulsa Fire Department is the fire department for the City of Tulsa,Oklahoma,serving approximately 400,000 citizens out of their 29 fire stations in an area of 201 square miles. The department was founded as a volunteer fire department on June 6,1900,following a fire that broke out in Downtown Tulsa in 1897. The Tulsa Fire Department headquarters is located at 1760 Newblock Park Drive and the current fire chief is Michael Baker.
As of December 22,2022,Oklahoma has been impacted more by Covid than the average U.S. state. Statistics for the U.S. as a whole are 331 deaths per 100,000 population with 68 percent of the population fully vaccinated. The comparable statistics for Oklahoma are 405 deaths per 100,000 population with 59 percent of the population fully vaccinated. 16,041 deaths from Covid have been recorded in Oklahoma. A wide variation in deaths from Covid exists between counties in Oklahoma. Greer County recorded a death rate of .00753. Payne County recorded a death rate of only .00231 (231 deaths per 100,000 residents.
On June 20,2020,Donald Trump held a rally for his 2020 presidential re-election campaign at the BOK Center in Tulsa,Oklahoma. Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic,the event marked his first public campaign event since March 2020.
The 2022 Oklahoma Attorney General election took place on November 8,2022,to elect the next attorney general of Oklahoma. The primary election was scheduled for Tuesday,June 28,2022. The candidate filing deadline was April 15,2022.
On June 1,2022,Michael Louis opened fire in the Natalie Building,part of the Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa,Oklahoma,United States. He killed four people,three of whom were hospital staff,and injured an unspecified number of others before committing suicide.
Daniel Webster Patton was an American politician who served as the 17th Mayor of Tulsa from 1928 to 1930.
