User:Dcheagle/Oklahoma Hall of Fame/OKHF List

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Continuously since 1928 selected individuals have been inducted every year, with 648 being inducted to date. Anyone who meets the criteria can be nominated for induction each year. Individuals who have been inducted have come from a wide range of professions the most being Actors, Singer, Athletics, Aviation, TV/Radio and many others. Some the more notable inductees are Gene Autry who was a will known singer and actor, Jim Thorpe who was a well known athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics, Mickey Mantle who was a will known baseball player who played for the New York Yankees from 1951 to 1968, and Wiley Post who was a will known aviator. Busts and paintings of the inductees can be seen at the Gaylord-Pickens Oklahoma Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Among the 635 members are[1]

Members[edit]

1928[edit]

Picture Name Birth Death Contribution Notes
Dennis T. Flynn February 13, 1861 June 19, 1939 Congressman
Elizabeth Fulton Hester January 1839 August 2, 1929 Civic Leader

1929[edit]

Picture Name Birth Death Contribution Notes
James S. Buchanan October 14, 1864 March 20, 1930 Educator Fourth president of the University of Oklahoma.
Charles F. Colcord August 18, 1859 December 10, 1934 Oilman The community of Colcord, Oklahoma is named for him.
Alice M. Robertson January 2, 1854 July 1, 1931 Congresswomen The second woman to serve in the United States Congress, and the first from the state of Oklahoma.
R.A. Sneed Unknown Unknown Public Servant Oklahoma Secretary of State from 1923 to 1927.

1930[edit]

Picture Name Birth Death Contribution Notes
David Ross Boyd 1853 November 17, 1936 Educator First president of the University of Oklahoma.
Alice Brown Davis September 10, 1852 June 21, 1935 Seminole Chief First female Principal Chief of the Seminole Tribe of Oklahoma, and served from 1922–1935.
E.K. Gaylord March 5, 1873 May 30, 1974 Publisher Was the owner and publisher of The Oklahoman.
Annette Ross Hume March 8, 1858 January 19, 1933 Civic Leader
Graves Leeper May 23, 1854 March 2, 1931 Public Servant Oklahoma Secretary of State from 1927 to 1931.
Frank Phillips November 28, 1873 August 23, 1950 Oilman Founded Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville, Oklahoma in 1917, along with his brother, Lee Eldas "L.E." Phillips, Sr.
Joseph W. Scroggs October 26, 1852 Unknown Educator

1931[edit]

Picture Name Birth Death Contribution Notes
Charles F. Barrett January 1, 1861 1946 Military Was a clerk in the Constitutional Convention of 1907 Known as the "Father of the Forty-Fifth Infantry Division
Laura Clubb philanthropist
100px Gregory Gerrer July 23, 1867 August 24, 1946 Artist Benedictine Priest at Sacred Heart Abbey (later, St. Gregory's Abbey}
Roy A. Hoffman Military
Douglas H. Johnston October 13, 1856 June 28, 1939 Chickasaw Chief Governor of the Chickasaw Nation from 1898 to 1902 and from 1904 to 1939.
E.W. Marland May 8, 1874 October 3, 1941 Oilman Served as the tenth Governor of Oklahoma.
Benjamin F. Nihart Educator
Joseph B. Thoburn Historian

1932[edit]

Picture Name Birth Death Contribution Notes
Frank Bailey 1876 1958 Jurist
Joseph Blatt 1878 1946 Religious Leader
Fowler Border Physician
Fred S. Clinton Oilman
J.P. Connors Public Servant
John Cotteral Jurist
John B. Doolin Public Sevrant
William A. Durant Public Servant
F.B. Fite Physician
Frank Frantz Public Servant
Thomas P. Gore Public Servant
Charles N. Haskell Governor
Frederick W. Hawley Clergyman
William M Jenkins Public Servent
W.A. Ledbetter Attorney
J.L. McBrien Educator
Grant McGee Journalist
John J. Methvin Missionary
J.S. Murrow Missionary
James F. Owens Businessman
Gabe Parker Public Servant
D.P. Richardson Physician
Will Rogers Humorist
Campbell Russell Public Servant
Jasper Sipes Entrepreneur
Sidney Suggs Publisher
Elmer Thomas U.S. Senator
C.P. Wickmiller Pharmacist

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Oklahoma Hall of Fame By Name". Oklahoma Heritage Association. Retrieved November 3, 2010.