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James Sanford DAVENPORT, Congress, OK (1864-1940)

DAVENPORT James Sanford , a Representative from Oklahoma; born on a farm near Gaylesville, Cherokee County, Ala., September 21, 1864; moved with his parents to Conway, Faulkner County, Ark., in…

Jesse Chisholm Biography

Jesse Chisholmfounder of the Chisholm TrailBorn: circa 1806Birthplace: Cherokee Nation, eastern Tennessee Born to a father of Scottish ancestry and a Cherokee mother, Chisholm went to live…

Newspaper Editor

Anonymous Tell us about your work -- what do you do? I am the news editor at Friday Newspaper in Oklahoma City. I am responsible for student news,…

James Vernon McCLINTIC, Congress, OK (1878-1948)

McCLINTIC James Vernon , a Representative from Oklahoma; born near Bremond, Robertson County, Tex., September 8, 1878; moved with his parents to Groesbeck, Limestone County, Tex., in 1880;…

2007 Intel Science Talent Search Winners

First Place: $100,000 scholarship, Mary Masterman, 17, Oklahoma City, for developing an accurate spectrograph that identifies the specific characteristics-or "…

Merrick Garland

Merrick Garland is the longtime U.S. Court of Appeals judge whose nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Barack Obama was stalled by Senate Republicans until time expired ten months later…

Robert Samuel KERR, Congress, OK (1896-1963)

Senate Years of Service: 1949-1963 Party: Democrat KERR Robert Samuel , A Senator from Oklahoma; born in the Chickasaw Indian Territory, Okla., near the present town of Ada, September 11, 1896;…