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97 unusual facts about Oklahoma!


2003 Big 12 Championship Game

The Wildcats lost at home to Marshall in September, and followed it up with losses to #13 Texas in Austin, and Oklahoma State in Stillwater.

26243 Sallyfenska

It is named after Sally Fenska, an American educator in Miami, Oklahoma.

66 Motel

66 Motel (built circa-1933, demolished June 26, 2001) as a historically-listed site in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Alexander Posey

Alexander Posey born on August 3, 1873, near present Eufaula, Creek Nation.

AmeriPlanes Mitchell Wing A-10

The A-10 was produced by a number of companies, including Mitchell Aircraft Corporation and Mitchell Wing, Inc. of Porterville, California, MitchellWing Aircraft Company of Kansas, Tulsa Mitchell Wing, Inc. of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Higher Planes of Dover, Kansas and lastly AmeriPlanes of Truro, Iowa.

Autovon

Most are stripped of all the equipment, although the AUTOVON junction in Mounds, Oklahoma was sold with all the old equipment in place.

Baeotherates

It was collected within the Dolese Brothers Limestone Quarry of Richard's Spur in Comanche County, Oklahoma and found in the Garber Formation of the Sumner Group, which dates to the middle Sakmarian stage of the Early Permian, about 289 ± 0.68 million years ago.

Baxter Taylor

Baxter Taylor grew up in Dallas, Texas and spent summers on the family farm in Fargo, Oklahoma.

Ben Golden McCollum

McCollum was convicted of both bank robberies and sentenced to a forty year term at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Oklahoma.

Benjamin F. Rice

He died in Tulsa, Oklahoma on January 19, 1905, and was buried Oaklawn Cemetery in Tulsa.

Bill Holford

Bill Holford (né William Dwight Holford, Sr.; 12 June 1919 Bartlesville, Oklahoma — 22 March 1999 Houston) was, for 50 years, an American recording engineer and record producer.

Bob Beckham

Robert Joseph Beckham (July 8, 1927 – November 11, 2013) was an American country singer from Stratford, Oklahoma.

Brooks–McFarland Feud

On October 10, Jim and his wife were returning home from Weleetka in their buggy and, as they approached a river ford near Old Watsonville, someone opened fire on them with a rifle.

Carl Hatch

In 1912 he graduated from Cumberland School of Law at Cumberland University and in that year he was also admitted to the bar, whereupon he began practice in Eldorado, Oklahoma.

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Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base

Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base (1954–1969) is a former United States Air Force Strategic Air Command base located near the town of Burns Flat in Washita County, Oklahoma, 15 miles (24 km) southwest of the city of Clinton, Oklahoma.

Cloud Chief

Cloud Chief - an unincorporated community in Washita County, Oklahoma.

Craig Groeschel

He is married with six children and lives in Edmond, Oklahoma, a suburb of Oklahoma City, where LifeChurch.tv is based.

Daily O'Collegian

The Daily O'Collegian is published on weekdays and distributed at cost to OSU students at various points around the campus in Stillwater.

Dances with Dudley

Dances with Dudley was said to be the child of Big Daddy Dudley - the patriarch of the Dudley family - and a Native American woman from Cheyenne, Oklahoma.

Dancing ban

The events of the 1984 film Footloose were inspired by a dancing ban in the heavily Southern Baptist town of Elmore City, Oklahoma which lasted until 1980.

Dennis Fritz

Dennis Fritz and Ron Williamson were wrongly convicted of the murder of Ada, Oklahoma resident Debra Carter.

Don Carman

Donald Wayne Carman (born August 14, 1959, in Woodward, Oklahoma) is a retired Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher.

Eldon Shamblin

Born in Clinton, Oklahoma, Shamblin learned guitar at a young age and learned to read music at his sister's piano.

Elizabeth Ann Ray

She graduated from high school in Mangum, Oklahoma and attended Oklahoma College for Women for year.

Englewood, Kansas

The northern terminus was actually established in 1912 at Forgan, Oklahoma, then later rail service to Forgan ended in 1973, as Altus, Oklahoma became the northern terminus of the successor company.

Ethel Maude Proffitt Stephenson

Ethel Stephenson was the first female attorney in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma and in 1923 was appointed City Attorney of the Village of Pharoah in Oklahoma, in June of the same year she was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Flag of the Cherokee Nation

The most famous of these is the Cherokee Braves Flag, which was captured at the Battle of Locust Grove.

Forgan

Forgan, Oklahoma, a town in Beaver County, Oklahoma, United States

Fort Scott National Cemetery

Fort Scott was established in 1842, on what was known as Military Road, between Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and Fort Gibson, Oklahoma.

Frank Ingram

Francis Hamilton Ingram (September 17, 1905 in Craven, Saskatchewan – April 1, 1985 in Edmond, Oklahoma) was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played three seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Chicago Black Hawks.

Genta H. Holmes

Genta Hawkins Holmes (born September 3, 1940 in Anadarko, Oklahoma) is an American professor in diplomacy and former American foreign service officer and ambassador.

George Bent

Bent lived on the Cheyenne and Arapaho reservation near the town of Colony and worked as a U.S. government employee for most of the rest of his life.

George Newcomb

The Wild Bunch had its origins following the Dalton Gang's botched train robbery in Adair, Oklahoma Territory, on July 15, 1892, in which two guards and two townsmen, both doctors, were wounded.

German Fernandez

The top distance recruit in the nation, Fernandez elected to attend Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma to run for Coach Dave Smith.

Gratton Dalton

Bryant was taken to a doctor in Hennessey, Oklahoma, then left to return to the gang when he was well.

Green Corn Rebellion

In early August 1917, preceding the rebellion, large numbers of African-American, European-American, and Native American men gathered at the farm of John Spears in Sasakwa to plan a march upon Washington, DC to end the war.

Hillbilly Handfishin'

The Bivins family runs Big Fish Adventures, a noodling-exhibition company based in Temple, Oklahoma.

Indian meridian

This line was chosen arbitrarily as part of the land survey of 1870 conducted by E. N. Darling and Thomas H. Barrett, at an arbitrary point about one mile south of Fort Arbuckle (about six miles west of present Davis, Oklahoma).

Jack Frye

William John "Jack" Frye (March 18, 1904, Sweetwater, Oklahoma – February 3, 1959) was an aviation pioneer, who with Paul E. Richter and Walter A. Hamilton, built TWA into a world class airline during his tenure as president from 1934-1947.

James Allen Williamson

He is related to former State Representative Allen Williamson, who served in the House from 1966 to 1974 and was honored with the dedication of a bridge named after him in Payne County.

James Lankford

From 1996 to 2009, Lankford was the student ministries and evangelism specialist for the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, and he was director of the Falls Creek youth programming at the Falls Creek Baptist Conference Center in Davis, Oklahoma.

James V. McClintic

When the southern portion of Kiowa County broke away to form Swanson County, with Snyder as its county seat, he was elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives.

James Westphal

He came to Caltech initially on a four-month leave of absence from Sinclair Research Labs in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but never left.

Jeff Ruminer

Jeffrey Ruminer (born December 16, 1962 from Seminole, Oklahoma USA) was a professional American "Old School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years were from (1977–1985).

Jeff W. Hickman

Jeff Hickman was born in Alva, Oklahoma on November 28, 1973, to Steve and Cathy (Leamon) Hickman.

Joe Melson

He attended high school in Gore, Oklahoma, and in Chicago before he returned to Texas to study at the two-year Odessa College in Odessa, the seat of Ector County.

Joe Stanka

Joe Donald Stanka (born July 23, 1931) is a former major league baseball player from Hammon, Oklahoma.

John Aaron

John Aaron was born in Wellington, Texas and grew up in rural Western Oklahoma near Vinson in Booger Hollow, one of the youngest in a family of eight children.

John M. Brower

Brower moved to Oklahoma and settled in Boswell, Choctaw County, in 1907 and engaged in the manufacture of lumber, agricultural pursuits, and stock raising.

Johnnie Crutchfield

He served in the Oklahoma Senate from 1998 to 2010, representing District 14, which included Carter, Garvin, Love and Murray counties.

Johnson T. Crawford

Johnson Tal Crawford was a district judge in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, United States.

Katrina Elam

Katrina Ruth Elam (born December 12, 1983 in Bray, Oklahoma) is an American country music singer and songwriter.

KJIL

KJIL is also heard on translators throughout Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Colorado, as well as on full power stations KJRL 105.7 in Herington, Kansas, KJLG 91.9 in Emporia, Kansas, KJVL 88.1 in Hutchinson, Kansas, KJLJ 88.5 in Scott City, Kansas, KNGM 88.9 in Guymon, Oklahoma, KJOV 90.7 in Woodward, Oklahoma, and KJHL in Boise City, Oklahoma.

KJRH-TV

KJRH maintains studios located in the Brookside district of midtown Tulsa (near East 37th Street and South Peoria Avenue), and its transmitter is located near South 273rd Avenue East and the Muskogee Turnpike (near Broken Arrow) in southeastern Tulsa County.

KMYT-TV

Both stations share studios on Memorial Drive and East 27th Street South (near Interstate 44) in the southeast section of Tulsa, and its transmitter located between East 93rd Street South and the Muskogee Turnpike in southeastern Tulsa County (near Broken Arrow).

KREJ

KREJ is also heard on full powered stations 88.1 KRTT in Great Bend, Kansas, and 90.3 KNJT in Coldwater, Kansas, as well as a low powered translator on 97.1 in Woodward, Oklahoma.

KRSU-TV

It broadcasts a high-definition digital signal on UHF channel 36 (or virtual channel 35.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter located to the adjacent southeast of Oologah Lake in northern Rogers County.

Lee Roy West

Born in Clayton, Oklahoma, West received a B.A. from the University of Oklahoma in 1952, and was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean War, from 1952 to 1956 (in active service from 1952 to 1954).

Lonnie Ratliff

The oldest of seven children to a Pushmataha County, Oklahoma sharecropper family in the Little Dixie area of Oklahoma, he grew up with a unique first hand experience of what William Faulkner was talking about.

Lotsee Patterson

Patterson was born in 1931 and raised in southwestern Oklahoma, on a Native American land allotment near the town of Apache, Oklahoma.

Margaret E. Lynn

Under her stage name, Margaret Lynn, she was a dancer and dance captain with the Radio City Rockettes in New York City, and appeared in seven Broadway shows, including Oklahoma!, Carousel, and Mike Todd's Mexican Hayride.

Mark Holtzapple

In 1956, Mark Holtzapple was born to Joan Carol and Arthur Robert Holtzapple in Enid, Oklahoma.

Mladen Urem

Urem is frequent a contributor to the US literary journals Grand Street (New York), Partisan Review (Boston), World Literature Today (Norman, Oklahoma) and Corner (Oakland, California), in which he has also published various works by the Croatian writers Janko Polić Kamov, Miroslav Krleža, Ivo Andrić and Ivan Goran Kovačić.

Ned Christie's War

After Fort Smith, Christie's body was sent to Fort Gibson to be identified by his family and to be buried, but the remains were later moved to the Watt Christie Cemetery in Wauhillau, Oklahoma.

Newton Gang

Then in 1916 Willis robbed a bank in Boswell, Oklahoma in the company of a gang he joined in Durant, Oklahoma, taking just over $10,000 and escaping on horseback.

Oil Capital of the World

Tulsa claimed the name early in the 20th century, after oil strikes at Red Fork (1901) and Glenn Pool (1905) in Tulsa County.

Oklahoma State University College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources

Experiment stations currently operate in the Oklahoma cities of Stillwater, Goodwell, Woodward, Bessie, Lahoma, Haskell, Perkins, Chickasha, Fort Cobb, Altus, Mangum, Tipton, Lane, Bixby, and Idabel.

Pavilion for Japanese Art

Before entering the embrace of LACMA, the pavilion was first designed to be built in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, where Price had assembled his extensive collection, and then was later redesigned as a wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Ray Wylie Hubbard

Ray Wylie Hubbard (born November 13, 1946 in Soper, Oklahoma) is a Texas Country singer and songwriter.

Raymond Gary Lake

Raymond Gary Lake is a reservoir in southeastern Oklahoma, one mile east of Fort Towson, Oklahoma in Choctaw County.

Richard Lerblance

Richard Charles Lerblance was an Oklahoma Senator from District 7, which includes Haskell, Latimer, Pittsburg and Sequoyah counties, since winning a special election to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Gene Stipe in June 2003 serving until 2012.

Rob Standridge

In 1995, he purchased a small pharmacy in Blanchard, Oklahoma and expanded the pharmacy into an interactive online pharmacy.

Ronnell Lewis

Lewis attended Dewar High School in Dewar, Oklahoma, where he accounted for 2,219 yards on 150 rushes with 33 touchdowns in 2008 along with 156 tackles while he picked off 11 passes on defense and added 2,000 yards and 40 rushing touchdowns as a junior.

Santa Fe 5017

It entered service on July 20 of that year and was assigned to freight service between Belen, New Mexico, Waynoka, Oklahoma, and La Junta, Colorado.

Sasha Miller

Sasha Miller is the pseudonym of American fantasy writer Georgia Myrle Miller (born October 15, 1933 in Erick, Oklahoma).

Sequoyah Constitutional Convention

When representatives from Indian Territory joined the Oklahoma State Constitutional Convention in Guthrie the next year, they brought their experience with them.

Sol Price

In 1983, Walton dined with Price and later that year the first Sam's Club was opened in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Spec Sanders

Orban Eugene "Spec" Sanders (born January 26, 1919 in Temple, Oklahoma) was a former American football running back, quarterback, and punter in the All-America Football Conference and a defensive back in the National Football League for the New York Yanks.

Susie McEntire

Her eldest owns the website for the family McEntire Ranch in Chockie, Oklahoma.

The Evening Descends

The Evening Descends is the second album by Norman, Oklahoma band Evangelicals.

Theodore S. Westhusing

Westhusing was born in Dallas, Texas and attended high school at Jenks High School in Jenks, Oklahoma where he was an outstanding student and starter for the basketball team.

Thomas Gilcrease

Gilcrease's father ran a cotton gin in the nearby community of Mounds, Oklahoma.

Thompson v. Oklahoma

William and three other men- Tony Mann, Richard Jones and Bobby Glass- then kidnapped Charles on the night of January 23, 1983 in Amber, Oklahoma.

Three Valley Museum

It houses a collection of artifacts regarding the history of Bryan County.

Trader-Price

Trader-Price is an American country music group from Burns Flat, Oklahoma composed of brothers Dan, Chris and Erick Trader-Price and Don Bell.

Troy Ruttman

Troy Ruttman (born March 11, 1930 in Mooreland, Oklahoma – May 19, 1997) was an American race car driver.

Waco Turner Open

The Waco Turner Open was a PGA Tour event that was played in Burneyville, Oklahoma in the early 1960s.

Warr

Warr Acres, Oklahoma, a city in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States

West Ottawa High School

The fall musicals in recent years have included Annie Get Your Gun, Anything Goes, Once Upon a Mattress, Les Misérables, The Sound of Music, Oklahoma!, Working (musical), "Guys and Dolls", and The Music Man.

West Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Generally accepted communities of West Tulsa in city limits are Red Fork, Carbondale, Garden City, and Turkey Mountain.

Wild Bunch

On April 3, 1895, the Wild Bunch, without Doolin, held up a Rock Island train at Dover but were unable to open the safe with the $50,000 army payroll.

Will Rogers Downs

The Will Rogers Downs is a gaming facility and race track located in Rogers County, east of Claremore, Oklahoma (and just east of Justice), that is owned and operated by the Cherokee Nation.

William Miller Jenkins

When the Cherokee Outlet was opened to settlement on September 16, 1893, Jenkins made the race and secured a homestead in Kay County where he would continue to practice law untli he entered government service.

Willie George

Willie George Ministries purchased land in rural Mayes County, Oklahoma in order to build a Christian camping and retreat center called Dry Gulch, U.S.A..

Wyandot language

By the time the ethnographer Marius Barbeau made his transcriptions of the Wyandot language in Wyandotte, Oklahoma, in 1911-1912, it had diverged enough to be considered a separate language.

Members of the Wyandotte Nation, whose headquarters is in Wyandotte, Oklahoma, are promoting the study of Wyandot as a second language among its people as part of a cultural revival.


1999 IGA SuperThrift Classic

The 1999 IGA SuperThrift Classic was a women's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at The Greens Country Club in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in the United States that was part of Tier III of the 1999 WTA Tour.

66ers

Tulsa 66ers, a NBA Development League franchise based in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Aero Commander

Three men funded the company's early efforts: Philadelphia attorney George Pew and Oklahoma City brothers William and Rufus Travis Amis.

Alfred G. Hansen

He initially enlisted in the Air Force and later was commissioned as a second lieutenant through the aviation cadet program, receiving his pilot wings in February 1955 at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma.

Anadarko Independent School District

The Anadarko Independent School District is a school district based in Anadarko, Oklahoma United States.

Bare Bones International Film Festival

The Bare Bones International Film Festival was founded in 1999 by the Darkwood Film Arts Institute (DFAI) in the city of Muskogee, Oklahoma to showcase independent motion picture projects with budgets of less than 1 million dollars (hence Bare Bones).

Bizzell

William Bizzell (1876–1944), fifth president of the University of Oklahoma and president of Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas

Blue-eyed Darner

The Blue-eyed Darner is a common dragonfly of the western United States commonly sighted in the sagebrush steppe of the Snake River Plain, occurring east to the Midwest from central Canada and the Dakotas south to west Texas and Oklahoma.

Chuck Cissel

He was the CEO of the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame from 2000–2009 and is now the Artistic Director of the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, which is located in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Conrad Ludlow

He also danced at San Francisco Ballet and founded and directed Ballet Oklahoma (now Oklahoma City Ballet).

Edward Buehler Delk

Among his most famous works were Spanish Colonial Revival Style architecture buildings in the 1920s for Kansas City developer J.C. Nichols and Oklahoma oilman Waite Phillips.

Encyclo-Media

Encyclo-Media seeks to provide high quality professional development by encouraging Oklahoma educators to share their best classroom practices to peers, and by inviting nationally known speakers such as Jim Trelease, Richard Peck, Alan November, Patricia Polacco, Doug Johnson, Stephen Krashen, Sharon Draper, Linda Sue Park, and more.

Éric Cyr

Cyr graduated from Edouard Montpetit High School in Montreal and attended Seminole State College in Oklahoma.

Five Moons

She and her husband Miguel Terekhov founded the Oklahoma City Civic Ballet, now known as Oklahoma City Ballet.

Fort Stockton, Texas

Other forts in the frontier fort system were Forts Griffin, Concho, Belknap, Chadbourne, Richardson, Fort Davis, Fort Bliss, McKavett, Clark, Fort McIntosh, Fort Inge and Phantom Hill in Texas, and Fort Sill in Oklahoma.

Fred's Frozen Foods

As of 2002, both brands are operated by Windsor Quality Food Company, LTD, which is ultimately owned by the Hojel and Meinig families through their holding company HM International based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

George W. Littlefield

Works on Littlefield include David B. Gracy, II, George Washington Littlefield: A Biography in Business (Ph.D. dissertation; Texas Tech University, 1971) and J. Evetts Haley's George W. Littlefield, Texan (1943; through the University of Oklahoma Press in Norman, Oklahoma).

Glen Johnson

Glen D. Johnson, Jr. (born 1954), Chancellor of the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education

Green Currin

Currin participated in the Land Run of 1889 and served as the grand master of an African American Masonic Order in Oklahoma.

Heinrich Karl Beyrich

In September 1834, while on an expedition through North America, he became ill and died at Fort Gibson, located in the present-day state of Oklahoma.

Heritage College

Heritage College & Heritage Institute in Denver, Colorado, Kansas City, Missouri, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Fort Myers, Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, Falls Church, Virginia, Manassas, Virginia, and Wichita, Kansas

Homer L. Dodge

From 1942 to 1944, he took a leave of absence from the University of Oklahoma to serve as director of the Office of Scientific Personnel of the National Research Council.

Iselin Alme

Among the productions she has taken part in are Godspell, A Chorus Line, Cats and Oklahoma, as well as Ionesco's La Leçon at Riksteatret.

Jim Hightower

After managing the presidential campaign of former Senator Fred R. Harris of Oklahoma in 1976, he returned to Texas to become the editor of the magazine The Texas Observer.

Jones, Oklahoma

Aldrich named the town after his friend and business associate, Charles G. "Gristmill" Jones who was a three-time mayor of Oklahoma City.

KRMG

KRMG-FM, a radio station (102.3 FM) licensed to Sand Springs, Oklahoma, United States

KVOO

KFAQ, a radio station (1170 AM) licensed to Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, which used the call sign KVOO until May 2002

KWHW

KWHW-FM, a radio station (93.5 FM) licensed to serve Altus, Oklahoma, United States

Margie Wright

In March 2000, she broke Judi Garman's mark as the all-time winningest softball coach with caeer victory No. 914, a 1-0 win over Oklahoma.

Mary Odilia Berger

The congregation, through SSM Health Care, today operates in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin.

May 2003 tornado outbreak sequence

In the Oklahoma City area, the General Motors Oklahoma City Assembly sustained major damage as well as a manufacturing plant near Interstate 240 where F4 damage was observed.

Mick Cornett

Also in 2010, he was named runner-up of the World Mayor prize, and also the recipient of the World Mayor Project's 2010 World Mayor Commendation, in recognition of the economic and civic progress of Oklahoma City.

Neil B. Ward

Earning two scholarships, he attended graduate school at Texas A&M University, the University of Oklahoma, and Colorado State University, beginning in late 1956.

Oklahoma Girl

Oklahoma Girl is the twenty-first album, a double-disc 40-track retrospective of Reba McEntire's early years on Mercury Records.

Purcell, Oklahoma

The bridge, among the longest in Oklahoma, is named for James C. Nance, a newspaper publisher and legislative leader in Oklahoma and U.S. Uniform Law Commissioner.

Repository for Germinal Choice

The program also featured discussion from another donor, University of Central Oklahoma biology professor James Bidlack.

Robin J. Cauthron

Ralph Gordon Thompson, of the United States District Court, Western District of Oklahoma from 1977 to 1981.

Ronn Carroll

Career highlights include Oklahoma!, directed by Trevor Nunn, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying with Matthew Broderick, and two productions of Annie Get your Gun with both Ethel Merman and Bernadette Peters.

Steven Taylor

Steven W. Taylor (born 1949), American politician, Oklahoma Supreme Court justice

Sven Erik Holmes

Raised in Oklahoma, Holmes currently lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife Lois Romano, prominent American journalist, currently a senior reporter at Politico.

Terror at Tenkiller

In rural Oklahoma, under the cover of night, a marina worker named Tor murders Denise, a local waitress, by slitting her throat, then dumps her body in Lake Tenkiller.

The Southern Oklahoma Cosmic Trigger Contest

The Southern Oklahoma Cosmic Trigger Contest is a soundtrack by The Flaming Lips to the Bradley Beesley fishing documentary Okie Noodling, featuring three country-tinged songs not found elsewhere, two of which are instrumentals.

Thom Cox

During the summers, he and his wife, the stage manager Chris Freeburg, work at the Weston Playhouse Theatre in Vermont, where he has appeared in productions ranging from Chicago, Oklahoma!, and Urinetown, to Tartuffe, Blithe Spirit, and most recently Peter Pan.

Toby Morris

An unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1960 to the 87th Congress, Morris served as judge for the Oklahoma State Industrial Court from July 1, 1961, to July 17, 1963.

United States presidential election in Oklahoma, 2008

Another fallback for Obama was that U.S. Representative Dan Boren, the only Democrat from Oklahoma's five-member delegation in the U.S. House of Representatives, refused to endorse Obama.