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    Oklahoma Territorial Legislature was the legislative branch of the government of the Oklahoma Territory. It was organized as a bicameral legislature with...
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    The Legislature of the State of Oklahoma is the state legislative branch of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The Oklahoma House of Representatives and Oklahoma...
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  • the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature served in one of eight legislative sessions between 1890 and 1905. The following list of legislators for Oklahoma Territory...
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    Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society. Retrieved September 20, 2017. Darcy, R., "The Oklahoma Territorial Legislature: 1890-1905...
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  • Governor George Washington Steele, on December 18, 1890, the Oklahoma Territorial legislature established three universities: the state university in Norman...
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  • established in Alva by an act of the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature. It was the second normal school in Oklahoma, charged with preparing teachers to...
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    of the territorial militia. George Washington Steele served as the first governor of Oklahoma Territory. He vetoed the territorial legislature's attempts...
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    Thomas Gore (category Members of the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature)
    Oklahoma Territory. In 1902, he entered and won an election for the Oklahoma Territorial Senate. He declined an opportunity to run as a territorial representative...
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  • Henry S. Johnston (category Members of the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature)
    session, the state legislature announced its plans to investigate the governor. Before the Oklahoma Legislature could act, the Oklahoma Supreme Court intervened...
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  • the new store owner, who had been elected a delegate to the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature in 1892. Allen declined the honor, and proposed the name Meridian...
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  • to represent the 22nd district in the second session of the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature, becoming the second African American who served in the body...
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    built. A lending library was in operation by May 1904. The Oklahoma Territorial Legislature approved the incorporation on March 2, 1905 (Council Bill #80)...
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    served in the territorial legislature. Oklahoma began instituting Jim Crow legislation in 1897, banning miscegenation and segregating Oklahoma's schools. Racism...
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    town had a telephone system in service in 1895. In 1897, the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature passed a law creating the Colored Agricultural and Normal University...
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    Celebration." The Oklahoma State University alumni network exceeds 250,000 graduates. On December 25, 1890, the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature finally gained...
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    Sam C. Massingale (category Members of the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature)
    in Company D, Second Texas Infantry. He served as a member of the Oklahoma Territorial Council in 1902. The following year he married Anna Canaday, and...
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    Music in downtown Oklahoma City. The University of Central Oklahoma was founded on December 24, 1890, when the Territorial Legislature voted to establish...
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  • Frank Hilton Greer (category Members of the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature)
    from the U.S. state of Oklahoma who founded the Daily State Capitol newspaper and served in the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature between 1892 and 1894...
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    The Washington Territorial Assembly, as the newly created area's bicameral legislature, convened the following year. The legislature represented settlers...
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    George W. Bellamy (category Members of the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature)
    (1867–1920) was the first lieutenant governor of Oklahoma, from 1907 until 1911 alongside Oklahoma's first governor, Charles N. Haskell. Bellamy was born...
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  • John P. Hickam (category Members of the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature)
    February 24, 1927) was an American politician who served in the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature from 1902 until statehood. John P. Hickam was born in Hot Springs...
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    Green Currin (category Members of the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature)
    American to serve in the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature that existed before statehood in 1907. He was the author of the Oklahoma Territory's first civil...
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    The Legislature of Guam (Chamorro: Liheslaturan Guåhan) is the law-making body for the United States territory of Guam. The unicameral legislative branch...
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    the campus of the University of Oklahoma. The museum was founded in 1899 by an act of the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature. Its current building was completed...
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    Northwestern Territorial Normal School, now Northwestern Oklahoma State University ("NWOSU"), was established in 1897 in Alva by the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature...
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  • members. SWOSU was first established through an act of the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature in 1901 as Southwestern Normal School, although no classes...
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    Thomas H. Doyle (category Members of the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature)
    into politics, joined the Democratic party and was elected to the Oklahoma Territorial House of Representatives, where he served between 1897 and 1901....
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  • Arthur N. Daniels (category Members of the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature)
    speaker of the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature and a member of the Oklahoma People's Party. An Illinois native, Daniels arrived in Oklahoma Territory and...
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    Albert H. Ellis (category Members of the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature)
    the fourth Territorial Legislature of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention, and served as speaker pro tempore of the Oklahoma House of Representatives...
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    James Menefee (category Members of the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature)
    Oklahoma Territory where he worked as a banker. He also served as a territorial senator for the 11th district of the Oklahoma Territory Legislature from...
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