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The company was founded in Rockford, Illinois, in 1870 with Amos W. Woodward's invention of a non compensating mechanical waterwheel governor (U.S. patent No. 103,813). [5] [8] Thirty years later, his son Elmer patented the first successful mechanical compensating governor for hydraulic turbines (U.S. patent No. 583,527). [9]
The Constitution of Oklahoma calls for the election of a governor every four years, to take office on the second Monday in January after the election. [22] Originally, governors could not succeed themselves, with no limit on total terms; [ 23 ] a 1966 constitutional amendment allowed them to succeed themselves once. [ 24 ]
Woodward County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 20,470. [1] Its county seat is Woodward. [2] Woodward County comprises the Woodward, OK micropolitan statistical area.
The state of Oklahoma is served by the following area codes: 405/572: Central Oklahoma including Oklahoma City (original area code created in 1947; 572 added as overlay on April 24, 2021 [1] [2] [3] 580: Western and southern Oklahoma (split from 405 in 1997) 539/918: Northeastern Oklahoma including Tulsa (918 created in 1953 as split from 405 ...
Oklahoma County is a county located in the central part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 796,292, [1] making it the most populous county in Oklahoma. The county seat is Oklahoma City, [2] the state capital and largest city. Oklahoma County is at the heart of the Oklahoma City metropolitan statistical area.
John Kevin Stitt (born December 28, 1972) 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.
Woodward is a city in and the county seat of Woodward County, Oklahoma, United States. [4] It is the largest city in a nine-county area. [5] The population was 12,133 at the time of the 2020 census. [6] The area was historically occupied by the Kiowa, Comanche, Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes. [5]
Abraham Jefferson Seay (1832-1915, served 1892-1893) as the second presidential appointed governor of the Oklahoma Territory (1890-1907). Before statehood in 1907, modern day-Oklahoma was composed of the Oklahoma Territory (in the West since 1890) and the Indian Territory in the original far wider / greater expanse of the old Louisiana Purchase of 1803, including today's Midwestern and Western ...