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Pittsburg County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.As of the 2020 census, the population was 43,773. [1] Its county seat is McAlester. [2] The county was formed from part of the Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory in 1907.
The McAlester News-Capital (formerly the News-Capital & Democrat) is a daily newspaper published in McAlester, Oklahoma, United States, covering Southeastern Oklahoma. It is owned by CNHI. Journalists James Beaty, Kevin Harvison, MJ Brickey and Matt Goisman anchor the editorial staff. Its editor, Glenn Puit, has written five true crime novels.
Carl Albert (1908–2000), Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1977; born in McAlester, reared in Bugtussle, Oklahoma; Bob Ballinger (born 1974), Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives; reared in Tulsa; Dewey F. Bartlett, Sr. (1919–1979), Oklahoma governor and U.S. senator
McAlester is the county seat of Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. [5] The population was 18,363 at the time of the 2010 census, a 3.4 percent increase from 17,783 at the 2000 census. [6]
Wanda L. Bass (January 5, 1927 – February 12, 2008) was an American philanthropist and banker.Bass donated most of the $38.5 million for the Wanda L. Bass School of Music at Oklahoma City University.
L.R. Kershaw, also known as Leroy Kershaw, was born in Elmwood, Illinois, on December 6, 1880, to David R. Kershaw and Jennie M. (Cole) Kershaw. [1] He was an outstanding athlete in high school, as an accomplished running back in football and as a champion discus thrower in track & field events.
James Jackson McAlester (October 1, 1842 – September 21, 1920) was an American coal baron and politician active in Indian Territory and later Oklahoma. He served as a United States Marshal for Indian Territory from 1893 to 1897, one of three members of the first Oklahoma Corporation Commission from 1907 to 1911, and as the second lieutenant governor of Oklahoma from 1911 to 1915.