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Thomas was named for William Thomas, who owned a general store and served as postmaster, when the first post office was established at the store on February 12, 1894, while this area was part of Oklahoma Territory. Joseph W. Morris claimed a homestead at the site during the Cheyenne-Arapaho opening in 1892.
Thomas attended college at Oklahoma State University where he was an upperclassman teammate of running back Barry Sanders. At Oklahoma State, Thomas had 897 rushes for 4,595 yards, 43 touchdowns, 5,146 total yards, and 21 100-yard rushing games. He was also a Heisman Trophy candidate in his senior year, finishing seventh in voting. [2]
Pickens was born in Holdenville, Oklahoma, the son of Grace Marcaline (née Molonson), and Thomas Boone Sibley Pickens. His father worked as an oil and mineral landman (rights leaser). During World War II , his mother ran the local Office of Price Administration , rationing gasoline and other goods in three counties. [ 2 ]
Carolyn T. Foreman, was a noted Oklahoma historian. Born in Illinois, she moved to the city of Muskogee (then in Indian Territory) with her widowed father, John R. Thomas, a former congressman for Illinois in the 1880s, [a] and politician, and who served as a federal judge after Oklahoma became a state in 1907.
Oklahoma (/ ˌ oʊ k l ə ˈ h oʊ m ə / ⓘ OHK-lə-HOH-mə; [7] Choctaw: Oklahumma, pronounced) [8] is a landlocked state in the South Central region of the United States. [9] It borders Texas to the south and west, Kansas to the north, Missouri to the northeast, Arkansas to the east, New Mexico to the west, and Colorado to the northwest.
Thomas Pryor Gore [1] (December 10, 1870 – March 16, 1949) was an American politician who served as one of the first two United States senators from Oklahoma, from 1907 to 1921 and again from 1931 to 1937.
On August 22, 1908, Gilcrease married Belle M. Harlow, a member of the Osage Nation. [2] He fathered two sons with Belle: William Thomas Gilcrease, Jr., who was born on July 23, 1909, in Oklahoma and died on March 16, 1967, in Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County, Texas, and Barton Eugene Gilcrease, who was born on April 12, 1911, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and died on September 25, 1991, in San Antonio ...
Thomas B. Smith was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 2nd Oklahoma Secretary of State from August 6, 1910, until January 9, 1911. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] References