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Oklahoma Republican Party

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Oklahoma Republican Party
ChairpersonA.J. Ferate
President pro tempore of the SenateGreg Treat
Speaker of the HouseCharles McCall
Founded1907
HeadquartersDewey F. Barlett Center
4031 N. Lincoln Blvd
Oklahoma City 73105
Membership (2021)1,137,338[1]
IdeologyConservatism
National affiliationRepublican Party
Colors  Red
Seats in the United States Senate
2 / 2
Seats in the United States House of Representatives
5 / 5
Seats in the Oklahoma Senate
40 / 48
Seats in the Oklahoma House of Representatives
81 / 101
Website
www.okgop.com
Politics of Oklahoma
Seal of Oklahoma.svg
Constitution
Executive
Legislature
Judiciary
Elections
Divisions
Congressional delegation

The Oklahoma Republican Party is the Oklahoma state affiliate of the Republican Party (GOP). Along with the Oklahoma Democratic Party, it is one of the two major parties in the state.

It is currently the dominant party in the state, controlling all five of Oklahoma's U.S. House seats, both U.S. Senate seats, the governorship, and has supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature.

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Oklahoma

Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a state in the South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the north, Missouri on the northeast, Arkansas on the east, New Mexico on the west, and Colorado on the northwest. Partially in the western extreme of the Upland South, it is the 20th-most extensive and the 28th-most populous of the 50 United States. Its residents are known as Oklahomans and its capital and largest city is Oklahoma City.

Republican Party (United States)

Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP, is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. The GOP was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists who opposed the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which allowed for the potential expansion of chattel slavery into the western territories. It has been the main political rival of the Democratic Party since the mid-1850s. Like them, the Republican Party is a big tent of competing and often opposing ideologies. Presently, the Republican Party contains prominent conservative, centrist, populist, and right-libertarian factions.

Oklahoma Democratic Party

Oklahoma Democratic Party

The Oklahoma Democratic Party is an Oklahoma political party affiliated with the Democratic Party.

United States House of Representatives

United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together, they comprise the national bicameral legislature of the United States.

United States Senate

United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States.

Governor of Oklahoma

Governor of Oklahoma

The governor of Oklahoma is the head of government of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Under the Oklahoma Constitution, the governor serves as the head of the Oklahoma executive branch, of the government of Oklahoma. The governor is the ex officio commander-in-chief of the Oklahoma National Guard when not called into federal use. Despite being an executive branch official, the governor also holds legislative and judicial powers. The governor's responsibilities include making yearly "State of the State" addresses to the Oklahoma Legislature, submitting the annual state budget, ensuring that state laws are enforced, and that the peace is preserved. The governor's term is four years in length.

Oklahoma Legislature

Oklahoma Legislature

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 Senate are the two houses that make up the bicameral state legislature. There are 101 state representatives, each serving a two-year term, and 48 state senators, who serve four-year terms that are staggered so only half of the Oklahoma Senate districts are eligible in each election cycle. Legislators are elected directly by the people from single member districts of equal population. The Oklahoma Legislature meets annually in the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City.

Current structure and composition

The Oklahoma Republican Party headquarters is located on North Lincoln Boulevard in Oklahoma City.[2] Additionally, the state party has a Tulsa office on East 51st Street.[2] They host the biennial state conventions in odd-numbered years, in which they elect executive officers and delegates to the Republican National Committee.[2]

The state party coordinates campaign activities with Republican candidates and county parties and receives some funding from the national GOP organizations.

History

Territorial period through 1930s

The Oklahoma Republican Party takes its roots from the territorial period, gaining a larger portion of its support from the Northwestern part of the state, where migrants from the state of Kansas brought with them Republican political leanings of the time.[3] For most of Oklahoma history, the Oklahoma Republican Party has the fewest members in the old Indian Territory or the area located in the Southeast.[3]

Republicans held the American presidency during most of the territorial period, resulting in the appointments of Republican territorial governors. Despite the dominance of Republicans as governor and delegate, the two main parties had almost reached parity in the territorial legislature by statehood.[4]

The Republican Party at the time of statehood in 1907 was not the party of most Oklahomans, but was the party of most African-Americans. Republican A. C. Hamlin was Oklahoma's first black legislator, serving in the first legislature of the new state.[5]

Republicans experienced a short-lived resurgence in the early 1920s, with the election of John W. Harreld in 1920 as the first Republican United States senator for the state of Oklahoma. During this time the Republican Party had gained a majority of the state's seats in United States Congress, attaining five of the nine seats available. The Oklahoma House of Representatives saw their first Republican majority and first Republican Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 1921 to 1923.[6] The first female member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives was a Republican.[7]

In the 1928 election, Republicans gained 26 new seats in the Oklahoma House of Representatives due in part to the low popularity of the time of presidential candidate Al Smith and the incumbent governor's stumping on his behalf.[8] With a total of forty-seven seats, they were only five seats from having a majority.[8] With thirteen Democratic members, they elected a coalition Democratic Speaker over the incumbent speaker.[8]

But it was the 1930s or The Great Depression that would prove to be the most troublesome for Republicans in Oklahoma. It was during this time that Republican voters had shifted their support to the revitalized Democratic Party.[3]

Late 20th century

Henry Bellmon
Henry Bellmon

Beginning in the 1960s, the Oklahoma Republican party made gains in voter registration and state legislative seats.[9] Henry Bellmon won election as Oklahoma's first Republican governor in 1962, by appealing to Democratic voters and as an anti-corruption candidate.[10] Only 18 percent of Oklahomans were registered as Republicans at the time.[9]

Bellmon's term helped increase the image of Republicans in Oklahoma. Under his administration, total highway projects increased 46 percent over the previous administration and the first retirement system for state employees was created.[10] Bellmon also oversaw the racial integration of Oklahoma schools and the court-ordered reapportionment of the state electoral districts.

Bellmon won election to the United States Senate in 1968.[10] Republican Don Nickles succeeded Bellmon in 1980.

In 1990, black Republican J.C. Watts was elected as Oklahoma's first black statewide officeholder, serving on the Oklahoma Corporation Commission,[11] serving as a member of the commission from 1990 to 1995 and as chairman from 1993 to 1995.

21st century

2000s

After the 2004 Presidential Election, Republicans gained control of the Oklahoma House of Representatives for the first time since 1921.[12]

2010s

In 2010, Republicans increased their gains in the Oklahoma House of Representatives and took majority control of the Oklahoma Senate.[13] Furthermore, Republicans captured every statewide office and came within six percentage points of capturing the 2nd District (the only Congressional seat that it did not already hold); in 2012 it would capture that seat as well and gain supermajority control of both chambers of the Oklahoma Legislature.

In 2015, the number of registered Republican voters overtook the number of registered Democratic voters for the first time in the state's history (as of January 15, 2015, there are 886,153 registered Republicans, 882,686 registered Democrats, and 261,429 independent voters).[14]

2020s

After Joe Biden won the 2020 election and Donald Trump refused to concede while making false claims of fraud, Oklahoma Republican Party head John R. Bennett said he would support a primary challenge against incumbent Oklahoma Senator James Lankford because Lankford refused to object to the certification of the Electoral College results in Congress.[15]

On July 27, 2021 the Jewish Federation of Tulsa and Greater Oklahoma City denounced the Oklahoma Republican Party's use of the yellow Star of David in a Facebook post by the party. The picture included a yellow Star of David with the words "Unvaccinated" accompanied by numbers meant to be reminiscent of the numbers tattooed on victims of the Holocaust. The post called on party members to call Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma, who was acting Governor of Oklahoma at the time, to call a special legislative session to pass legislation banning vaccine mandates. The post was denounced by many high-ranking members of the Oklahoma Republican Party including Governor Kevin Stitt, Lt. Governor Matt Pinnell, U.S. Senators James Lankford & Jim Inhofe, U.S. Congressman Markwayne Mullin, and both the Oklahoma Legislature's leaders Greg Treat and Charles McCall.[16] The post was also denounced in separate statements by Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister and Oklahoma Republican Party Vice Chair Shane Jemison.[17] The American Jewish Committee and the Jewish Federation also denounced the Facebook post.[18][19] On August 1, 2021, Oklahoma Republican Party Chairman John Bennett defended his comments, saying “When they put that on the Jews, they weren’t sending them directly to the gas chambers, they weren’t sending them directly to the incineraries. This came before that," and “It’s not about the star. It’s about a totalitarian government.”[19] The same day The Norman Transcript reported a majority of Republicans are unhappy with Bennett and that plans were in the works to remove him from office. Removal of a sitting chair of the Oklahoma Republican Party requires either the vice-chair or one of the other two national committee members to call for a vote for removal. After the vote, a 10 day notice is given before the state committee votes on the removal.[20] Some Republican groups supported Bennett including the Oklahoma Second Amendment Association President Don Spencer and Tulsa County Republican Chairwoman Ronda Vuillemont-Smith.[21]

Electoral history

Election year No. of
House seats 		+/– Governorship No. of
Senate seats 		+/–
1907
16 / 101
 Increase 16 Charles N. Haskell
6 / 48
 Increase 6
1908
39 / 101
 Increase 23
10 / 48
 Increase 4
1910
26 / 101
 Decrease 13 Lee Cruce
13 / 48
 Increase 3
1912
19 / 101
 Decrease 7
10 / 48
 Decrease 3
1914
18 / 101
 Decrease 1 Robert L. Williams
6 / 48
 Decrease 4
1916
26 / 101
 Increase 6
5 / 48
 Decrease 1
1918
30 / 101
 Increase 4 James B.A. Robertson
10 / 48
 Increase 6
1920
73 / 101
 Increase 43
17 / 48
 Increase 7
1922
14 / 101
 Decrease 59 Jack C. Walton
12 / 48
 Decrease 5
1924
24 / 101
 Increase 10 Martin Trapp
6 / 48
 Decrease 6
1926
22 / 101
 Decrease 2 Henry S. Johnston
9 / 48
 Increase 3
1928
47 / 101
 Increase 25
10 / 48
 Increase 1
1930
10 / 101
 Decrease 37 William H. Murray
12 / 48
 Increase 2
1932
4 / 101
 Decrease 6
5 / 48
 Decrease 7
1934
7 / 101
 Increase 3 E.W. Marland
1 / 48
 Decrease 4
1936
3 / 101
 Decrease 4
0 / 48
 Decrease 1
1938
13 / 101
 Increase 10 Leon C. Phillips
1 / 48
 Increase 1
1940
7 / 101
 Decrease 6
2 / 48
 Increase 1
1942
24 / 101
 Increase 17 Robert S. Kerr
4 / 48
 Increase 2
1944
22 / 101
 Decrease 2
6 / 48
 Increase 2
1946
22 / 101
 Steady 0 Roy J. Turner
6 / 48
 Steady 0
1948
12 / 101
 Decrease 10
5 / 48
 Decrease 1
1950
20 / 101
 Increase 8 Johnston Murray
4 / 48
 Decrease 1
1952
13 / 101
 Decrease 7
6 / 48
 Increase 2
1954
19 / 101
 Increase 6 Raymond D. Gary
5 / 48
 Decrease 1
1956
20 / 101
 Increase 1
3 / 48
 Decrease 2
1958
10 / 101
 Decrease 10 J. Howard Edmondson
3 / 48
 Steady 0
1960
13 / 101
 Increase 3
4 / 48
 Increase 1
1962
24 / 101
 Increase 11 Henry Bellmon
6 / 48
 Increase 2
1964
22 / 101
 Decrease 2
7 / 48
 Increase 1
1966
23 / 101
 Increase 1 Dewey F. Bartlett
9 / 48
 Increase 2
1968
22 / 101
 Decrease 1
10 / 48
 Increase 1
1970
22 / 101
 Steady 0 David Hall
9 / 48
 Decrease 1
1972
23 / 101
 Increase 1
10 / 48
 Increase 1
1974
23 / 101
 Steady 0 David L. Boren
10 / 48
 Steady 0
1976
20 / 101
 Decrease 3
10 / 48
 Steady 0
1978
24 / 101
 Increase 4 George Nigh
11 / 48
 Increase 1
1980
26 / 101
 Increase 2
12 / 48
 Increase 1
1982
26 / 101
 Steady 0
14 / 48
 Increase 2
1984
32 / 101
 Increase 6
14 / 48
 Steady 0
1986
31 / 101
 Decrease 1 Henry Bellmon
17 / 48
 Increase 3
1988
32 / 101
 Increase 1
14 / 48
 Decrease 3
1990
34 / 101
 Increase 2 David Walters
12 / 48
 Decrease 2
1992
34 / 101
 Steady 0
13 / 48
 Increase 1
1994
41 / 101
 Increase 7 Frank Keating
17 / 48
 Increase 4
1996
42 / 101
 Increase 1
19 / 48
 Increase 2
1998
42 / 101
 Steady 0
19 / 48
 Steady 0
2000
48 / 101
 Increase 6
21 / 48
 Increase 2
2002
47 / 101
 Decrease 1 Brad Henry
22 / 48
 Increase 1
2004
46 / 101
 Decrease 1
22 / 48
 Steady 0
2006
57 / 101
 Increase 11
24 / 48
 Increase 2
2008
61 / 101
 Increase 4
26 / 48
 Increase 2
2010
70 / 101
 Increase 9 Mary Fallin
32 / 48
 Increase 6
2012
72 / 101
 Increase 2
36 / 48
 Increase 4
2014
72 / 101
 Steady 0
40 / 48
 Increase 4
2016
75 / 101
 Increase 3
40 / 48
 Steady 0
2018
76 / 101
 Increase 1 Kevin Stitt
39 / 48
 Decrease 1
2020
81 / 101
 Increase 5
39 / 48
 Steady 0

Note: Lieutenant Governor Jari Askins provided tie breaking vote in the State Senate following the 2006 elections, giving Democrats a majority

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Republican Party (United States)

Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP, is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. The GOP was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists who opposed the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which allowed for the potential expansion of chattel slavery into the western territories. It has been the main political rival of the Democratic Party since the mid-1850s. Like them, the Republican Party is a big tent of competing and often opposing ideologies. Presently, the Republican Party contains prominent conservative, centrist, populist, and right-libertarian factions.

Indian Territory

Indian Territory

The Indian Territory and the Indian Territories are terms that generally described an evolving land area set aside by the United States Government for the relocation of Native Americans who held aboriginal title to their land as a sovereign independent state. In general, the tribes ceded land they occupied in exchange for land grants in 1803. The concept of an Indian Territory was an outcome of the US federal government's 18th- and 19th-century policy of Indian removal. After the American Civil War (1861–1865), the policy of the US government was one of assimilation.

A. C. Hamlin

A. C. Hamlin

Albert Comstock Hamlin was the first African American elected to the Oklahoma Legislature. He lost his re-election bid as a direct result of a constitutional amendment that prevented many black Oklahomans from voting.

John W. Harreld

John W. Harreld

John William Harreld was a United States representative and Senator from Oklahoma. Harreld was the first Republican senator elected in Oklahoma and represented a shift in Oklahoma politics.

Oklahoma House of Representatives

Oklahoma House of Representatives

The Oklahoma House of Representatives is the lower house of the legislature of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Its members introduce and vote on bills and resolutions, provide legislative oversight for state agencies, and help to craft the state's budget. The upper house of the Oklahoma Legislature is the Oklahoma Senate.

Don Nickles

Don Nickles

Donald Lee Nickles is an American politician and lobbyist who was a Republican United States Senator from Oklahoma from 1981 to 2005. He was considered both a fiscal and social conservative. After retiring from the Senate as the longest-serving senator from Oklahoma up until that point, he founded the Nickles Group, a lobbying firm.

Oklahoma Corporation Commission

Oklahoma Corporation Commission

The Oklahoma Corporation Commission is the public utilities commission of the U.S state of Oklahoma run by three statewide elected commissioners. Authorized to employ more than 400 employees, it regulates oil and gas drilling, utilities and telephone companies.

2004 United States presidential election

2004 United States presidential election

The 2004 United States presidential election was the 55th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 2004. The Republican ticket of incumbent President George W. Bush and his running mate incumbent Vice President Dick Cheney were elected to a second term, defeating the Democratic ticket of John Kerry, a United States senator from Massachusetts and his running mate John Edwards, a United States senator from North Carolina. As of 2020, this is the only presidential election since 1988 in which the Republican nominee won the popular vote. Due to the higher turnout, both major party nominees set records for the most popular votes received by a major party candidate for president; both men surpassed Reagan's record from 20 years earlier. At the time, Bush's 62,040,610 votes were the most received by any nominee for president, although this record would be broken four years later by Barack Obama. Bush also became the only incumbent president to win re-election after previously losing the popular vote.

Oklahoma Senate

Oklahoma Senate

The Oklahoma Senate is the upper house of the two houses of the Legislature of Oklahoma, the other being the Oklahoma House of Representatives. The total number of senators is set at 48 by the Oklahoma Constitution.

Supermajority

Supermajority

A supermajority, supra-majority, qualified majority, or special majority is a requirement for a proposal to gain a specified level of support which is greater than the threshold of more than one-half used for a simple majority. Supermajority rules in a democracy can help to prevent a majority from eroding fundamental rights of a minority, but they can also hamper efforts to respond to problems and encourage corrupt compromises in the times action is taken. Changes to constitutions, especially those with entrenched clauses, commonly require supermajority support in a legislature. Parliamentary procedure requires that any action of a deliberative assembly that may alter the rights of a minority have a supermajority requirement, such as a two-thirds vote.

James Lankford

James Lankford

James Paul Lankford is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Oklahoma, a seat he has held since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the U.S. representative for Oklahoma's 5th congressional district from 2011 to 2015. He resigned from the House after winning a special election for the U.S. Senate in 2014.

Jewish Federation

Jewish Federation

The Jewish Federation (JFED), is generally a secular Jewish non-profit organization, found within many metropolitan areas across the United States with a significant Jewish community. They provide supportive and human services, philanthropy, financial grants to refugees around the world, humanitarian and disaster relief, host leadership conferences and fellowship opporunites for women and youth, charitable drives, help those in need navigate comprehensive resources, and provide outreach to at-risk Jewish populations in 70 countries worldwide, and more. While the Jewish Federation was created to primarily to service Jewish communities, they also provide for other communities. All federations in North America operate an annual central campaign, then allocate the proceeds to affiliated local agencies. There are currently 146 Jewish Federations, the national umbrella organization for the federations is the Jewish Federations of North America, in the United States.

Notable Oklahoma Republicans

Don Nickles
Don Nickles
Alice Mary Robertson
Alice Mary Robertson

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Dewey F. Bartlett

Dewey F. Bartlett

Dewey Follett Bartlett Sr. was an American politician who served as the 19th governor of Oklahoma from 1967 to 1971, following his fellow Republican, Henry Bellmon. In 1966, he became the first Roman Catholic elected governor of Oklahoma, defeating the Democratic nominee, Preston J. Moore of Oklahoma City. He was defeated for reelection in 1970 by Tulsa attorney David Hall in the closest election in state history. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1972 and served one term. In 1978, he was diagnosed with lung cancer and did not run for reelection that year. He died of complications of lung cancer two months after retiring from the Senate in 1979.

Gary Batton

Gary Batton

Gary Dale Batton is a tribal administrator and politician, the current and 47th Chief of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. It is the third-largest federally recognized tribe and second-largest reservation in total area.

Henry Bellmon

Henry Bellmon

Henry Louis Bellmon was an American Republican politician from the U.S. State of Oklahoma. A member of the Oklahoma Legislature, he went on to become both the 18th and 23rd governor of Oklahoma, mainly in the 1960s and again in the 1980s, as well as a two-term United States Senator in the 1970s. He was the first Republican to serve as Governor of Oklahoma and, after his direct predecessor George Nigh, only the second governor to be reelected.

David Ross Boyd

David Ross Boyd

David Ross Boyd was an American educator and the first president of the University of Oklahoma.

A. C. Hamlin

A. C. Hamlin

Albert Comstock Hamlin was the first African American elected to the Oklahoma Legislature. He lost his re-election bid as a direct result of a constitutional amendment that prevented many black Oklahomans from voting.

Chairperson

Chairperson

The chairperson, also chairman, chairwoman or chair, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office, who is typically elected or appointed by members of the group, presides over meetings of the group, and conducts the group's business in an orderly fashion.

Community Development Financial Institutions Fund

Community Development Financial Institutions Fund

The Community Development Financial Institutions Fund promotes economic revitalization in distressed communities throughout the United States by providing financial assistance and information to community development financial institutions (CDFI). An agency of the United States Department of the Treasury, it was established through the Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994. Financial institutions, which may include banks, credit unions, loan funds, and community development venture capital funds, can apply to the CDFI Fund for formal certification as a CDFI. As of September 1, 2005, there were 747 certified CDFIs in the U.S. The CDFI Fund offers a variety of financial programs to provide capital to CDFIs, such as the Financial Assistance Program, Technical Assistance Program, Bank Enterprise Award Program, and the New Markets Tax Credit Program.

Edward P. McCabe

Edward P. McCabe

Edward P. McCabe, also known as Edwin P. McCabe, was a settler, attorney and land agent who became one of the first African Americans to hold a major political office in the American Old West. A Republican office-holder in Kansas, McCabe became a leading figure in an effort to stimulate a black migration into what was then the territory of Oklahoma, with the hopes of creating a majority-black state that would be free of the white domination that was prevalent throughout the Southern United States. In pursuit of this goal, McCabe founded the city of Langston, Oklahoma.

Bessie S. McColgin

Bessie S. McColgin

Amelia Elizabeth Simison McColgin was an American businesswoman and politician. A native of Kansas, she moved to western Oklahoma Territory in 1901. In 1920, she was the first woman elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives.

Green McCurtain

Green McCurtain

Greenwood "Green" McCurtain was a tribal administrator and Principal Chief of the Choctaw Republic, serving a total of four elected two-year terms. He was the third of his brothers to be elected as chief. He was a Republican in the late 19th century, leaning toward allotment and assimilation when the nation was under pressure by the United States government, as he believed the Choctaw needed to negotiate to secure their best outcome prior to annexation.

Don Nickles

Don Nickles

Donald Lee Nickles is an American politician and lobbyist who was a Republican United States Senator from Oklahoma from 1981 to 2005. He was considered both a fiscal and social conservative. After retiring from the Senate as the longest-serving senator from Oklahoma up until that point, he founded the Nickles Group, a lobbying firm.

Alice Mary Robertson

Alice Mary Robertson

Alice Mary Robertson was an American educator, social worker, Native Americans' rights activist, government official, and politician who became the second woman to serve in the United States Congress, and the first from the state of Oklahoma. Robertson was the first woman to defeat an incumbent congressman. She was known for her strong personality, commitment to Native American issues, and anti-feminist stance.

Current elected officials

As of 2015 the Oklahoma Republican Party controls 11 out of the 12 statewide executive offices and holds majorities in both the Oklahoma Senate and the Oklahoma House of Representatives; Republicans also hold both of the state's U.S. Senate seats and all five of the state's U.S. House seats.[22]

Members of Congress

U.S. Senate

U.S. House of Representatives

District Member Photo
1st Kevin Hern
Rep. Kevin Hern official photo, 116th congress.jpg
2nd Josh Brecheen
Rep. Josh Brecheen official photo, 118th Congress.jpg
3rd Frank Lucas
Frank Lucas 116Con.jpg
4th Tom Cole
Rep-Tom-Cole-117thCong.jpeg
5th Stephanie Bice
Stephanie Bice 117th U.S Congress.jpg

State Officials

Statewide offices

Legislative leadership

City officials

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James Lankford

James Lankford

James Paul Lankford is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Oklahoma, a seat he has held since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the U.S. representative for Oklahoma's 5th congressional district from 2011 to 2015. He resigned from the House after winning a special election for the U.S. Senate in 2014.

Markwayne Mullin

Markwayne Mullin

Mark Wayne "Markwayne" Mullin is an American businessman and politician who has served as the junior United States senator from Oklahoma since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected in a special election in 2022 to serve the remainder of Jim Inhofe's term. Mullin is the first Native American U.S. senator since Ben Nighthorse Campbell retired in 2005. He is also the second Cherokee Nation citizen elected to the Senate; the first, Robert Latham Owen, retired in 1925. Before being elected to the Senate, Mullin served as the U.S. representative for Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district from 2013 to 2023.

Oklahoma's 1st congressional district

Oklahoma's 1st congressional district

Oklahoma's 1st congressional district is in the northeastern corner of the state and borders Kansas. Anchored by Tulsa, it is largely coextensive with the Tulsa metropolitan area. It includes all of Tulsa, Washington and Wagoner counties, and parts of Rogers and Creek counties. Although it has long been reckoned as the Tulsa district, a small portion of Tulsa itself is located in the 3rd district.

Kevin Hern

Kevin Hern

Kevin Ray Hern is an American businessman and politician from Oklahoma. A Republican, he is a member of the United States House of Representatives for Oklahoma's 1st congressional district. The chair of the Republican Study Committee, a group of conservative Republicans in the House, Hern was first elected in 2018. In the 2023 Speaker of the House of Representatives election, Hern was nominated for Speaker of the House as a protest candidate against Kevin McCarthy.

Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district

Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district

Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district is one of five United States congressional districts in Oklahoma and covers approximately one-fourth of the state in the east. The district borders Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Texas and includes a total of 24 counties.

Josh Brecheen

Josh Brecheen

Joshua Chad Brecheen is an American politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma who has served as the U.S. representative for Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district since 2023. He represented the 6th district in the Oklahoma Senate from 2010 to 2018. He is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation.

Oklahoma's 3rd congressional district

Oklahoma's 3rd congressional district

Oklahoma's 3rd congressional district is the largest congressional district in the state, covering an area of 34,088.49 square miles, over 48 percent the state's land mass. The district is bordered by New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, and the Texas panhandle. Altogether, the district includes a total of 32 counties, and covers more territory than the state's other four districts combined. It is one of the largest districts in the nation that does not cover an entire state.

Frank Lucas (Oklahoma politician)

Frank Lucas (Oklahoma politician)

Frank Dean Lucas is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Oklahoma's 3rd congressional district since 2003, having previously represented the 6th district from 1994 to 2003. A member of the Republican Party, Lucas has chaired the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology since 2023. His district, numbered as the 6th from 1994 to 2003, is Oklahoma's largest congressional district and one of the largest in the nation that does not cover an entire state. It covers 34,088.49 square miles and stretches from the Panhandle to the fringes of the Tulsa suburbs, covering almost half of the state's land mass. Lucas is the dean of Oklahoma's House delegation.

Governor of Oklahoma

Governor of Oklahoma

The governor of Oklahoma is the head of government of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Under the Oklahoma Constitution, the governor serves as the head of the Oklahoma executive branch, of the government of Oklahoma. The governor is the ex officio commander-in-chief of the Oklahoma National Guard when not called into federal use. Despite being an executive branch official, the governor also holds legislative and judicial powers. The governor's responsibilities include making yearly "State of the State" addresses to the Oklahoma Legislature, submitting the annual state budget, ensuring that state laws are enforced, and that the peace is preserved. The governor's term is four years in length.

Kevin Stitt

Kevin Stitt

John Kevin Stitt is an American businessman and politician serving as the 28th governor of Oklahoma since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected in 2018, defeating Democrat and former state Attorney General Drew Edmondson with 54.3% of the vote. Stitt was reelected to a second term in 2022, defeating Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister, a Republican turned Democrat, with 55.4% of the vote. A member of the Cherokee Nation, Stitt is the second governor of Native descent after former Oklahoma governor Johnston Murray.

Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma

Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma

The lieutenant governor of Oklahoma is the second-highest executive official of the state government of Oklahoma. As first in the gubernatorial line of succession, the lieutenant governor becomes the new governor of Oklahoma upon the death, resignation, or removal of the governor. The lieutenant governor also serves as the president of the Oklahoma Senate, and may cast a vote to break ties in that chamber.

Matt Pinnell

Matt Pinnell

Philip Matthew Pinnell is an American politician serving as the 17th lieutenant governor of Oklahoma, since 2019. Pinnell is also serving as the first Oklahoma Secretary of Tourism & Branding. Pinnell is a member of the Republican Party.

Republican Governors

As of 2019, there have been a total of six Republican Party Governors.

# Name Picture Lifespan Gubernatorial
start date 		Gubernatorial
end date
18 Henry Bellmon BellmonHL.jpg 1921–2009 January 14, 1963 January 9, 1967
19 Dewey F. Bartlett Dewey Bartlett.jpg 1919–1979 January 9, 1967 January 11, 1971
23 Henry Bellmon BellmonHL.jpg 1921–2009 January 12, 1987 January 14, 1991
25 Frank Keating Frank Keating at a conference, Oct 20, 2001 - cropped.jpg 1944– January 9, 1995 January 13, 2003
27 Mary Fallin Governor Mary Fallin May 2015.jpg 1954– January 10, 2011 January 14, 2019
28 Kevin Stitt Kevin Stitt (52251950006) (cropped).jpg 1972– January 14, 2019

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Henry Bellmon

Henry Bellmon

Henry Louis Bellmon was an American Republican politician from the U.S. State of Oklahoma. A member of the Oklahoma Legislature, he went on to become both the 18th and 23rd governor of Oklahoma, mainly in the 1960s and again in the 1980s, as well as a two-term United States Senator in the 1970s. He was the first Republican to serve as Governor of Oklahoma and, after his direct predecessor George Nigh, only the second governor to be reelected.

Dewey F. Bartlett

Dewey F. Bartlett

Dewey Follett Bartlett Sr. was an American politician who served as the 19th governor of Oklahoma from 1967 to 1971, following his fellow Republican, Henry Bellmon. In 1966, he became the first Roman Catholic elected governor of Oklahoma, defeating the Democratic nominee, Preston J. Moore of Oklahoma City. He was defeated for reelection in 1970 by Tulsa attorney David Hall in the closest election in state history. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1972 and served one term. In 1978, he was diagnosed with lung cancer and did not run for reelection that year. He died of complications of lung cancer two months after retiring from the Senate in 1979.

Frank Keating

Frank Keating

Francis Anthony Keating II is an American attorney and politician who served as the 25th governor of Oklahoma from 1995 to 2003.

Mary Fallin

Mary Fallin

Mary Fallin is an American politician who served as the 27th governor of Oklahoma from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, she was elected in 2010 and reelected in 2014. She is the first and so far only woman to be elected governor of Oklahoma. She was the first woman to represent Oklahoma in Congress since Alice Mary Robertson in 1920.

Kevin Stitt

Kevin Stitt

John Kevin Stitt is an American businessman and politician serving as the 28th governor of Oklahoma since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected in 2018, defeating Democrat and former state Attorney General Drew Edmondson with 54.3% of the vote. Stitt was reelected to a second term in 2022, defeating Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister, a Republican turned Democrat, with 55.4% of the vote. A member of the Cherokee Nation, Stitt is the second governor of Native descent after former Oklahoma governor Johnston Murray.

Source: "Oklahoma Republican Party", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 26th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_Republican_Party.

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Henry Bellmon

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James Lankford

Josh Brecheen

2014 Oklahoma gubernatorial election

T. W. Shannon

2014 United States House of Representatives elections in Oklahoma

2014 United States Senate special election in Oklahoma

John R. Bennett

2014 Oklahoma elections

2022 United States Senate election in Oklahoma

2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Oklahoma

2022 Oklahoma gubernatorial election

2022 Oklahoma Senate election
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