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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OklahomaROBERTSON, Alice Mary
(1854—1931)
ROBERTSON, Alice Mary, a Representative from Oklahoma; born at Tullahassee Mission, Creek Nation, Indian Territory (now Tullahassee, Okla.), January 2, 1854; self-taught in early life under the supervision of missionary parents; attended Elmira College, Elmira, N.Y.; clerk in the Indian Office, Washington, D.C., 1873-1879; returned to Indian Territory and taught in the school at Tullahassee and later in the Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1880-1882; again returned to Indian Territory and established Nuyaka Mission; engaged in teaching at Okmulgee, Okla., and had charge of a boarding school for Indian girls, which developed into Henry Kendall College (now the University of Tulsa); Government supervisor of Creek Indian schools 1900-1905; postmaster of Muskogee, Okla., 1905-1913; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; appointed by President Harding a welfare worker at Veterans’ Hospital No. 90 at Muskogee in May 1923; died in Muskogee, Okla., on July 1, 1931; interment in Greenhill Cemetery.
Bibliography
James, Louise B. “Alice Mary Robertson-Anti-Feminist Congresswoman.” Chronicles of Oklahoma
55 (Winter 1977-1978): 454-62; Stanley, Ruth M. “Alice M. Robertson, Oklahoma’s First Congresswoman.” Chronicles of Oklahoma
45 (Autumn 1967): 259-89.
“Alice Mary Robertson” in Women in Congress, 1917-1990.
Prepared under the direction of the Commission on the Bicentenary by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1991.
James, Louise B. “Alice Mary Robertson—Anti-Feminist Congresswoman.” Chronicles of Oklahoma
55 (Winter 1977-1978): 454-62.
Morris, Cheryl. “Alice M. Robertson: Friend or Foe of the American Soldier.” Journal of the West
12 (April 1973): 307-16.
Reese, Linda Williams. “Race, Class, and Culture: Oklahoma Women, 1890-1920.” Ph.D. diss., The University of Oklahoma, 1991.
Spaulding, Joe Powell. “The Life of Mary Alice Robertson.” Ph.D. diss., University of Oklahoma, 1959.
Stanley, Ruth M. “Alice M. Robertson, Oklahoma’s First Congresswoman.” Chronicles of Oklahoma
45 (Autumn 1967): 259-89.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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