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Donald Lee "Don" Nickles (born 1948), U.S. senator from Oklahoma 1981–2005; George Nigh (born 1927), two-time governor of Oklahoma; Tony Perkins (born 1963), director of the Family Research Council and former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives; Riley L. Pitts (1937–1967), U.S. Army Medal of Honor recipient
The following is a list of notable deaths in July 1988. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Oklahoma since 1976. The total amounts to 127 people, and all were executed by lethal injection . [ 1 ] Of the 127 people, 124 were males and 3 were females who all had been convicted of first-degree murder.
Fred Harris, a former U.S. senator from Oklahoma, presidential hopeful and populist who championed Democratic Party reforms in the turbulent 1960s, died Saturday. He was 94. He was 94. Harris’ wife, Margaret Elliston, confirmed his death to The Associated Press.
Their suspected remains were found in November 2013 and positively identified by the Oklahoma medical examiner on July 3, 2014. No cause of death was determined, and the circumstances surrounding their disappearance remain unknown. [3]
Fred Harris, a former U.S. senator from Oklahoma, presidential hopeful and populist who championed Democratic Party reforms in the turbulent 1960s, died Saturday. He was 94.
Russell M. Perry, former Oklahoma Secretary of Commerce; John Threadgill (1847–1915), Oklahoma legislator and Texas politician [74] Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Senator and 2020 Presidential candidate; J.C. Watts, University of Oklahoma football player and former Congressman; Mac Q. Williamson, former Attorney General of Oklahoma
Harris was born on November 13, 1930, in Cotton County, Oklahoma, near Walters, Oklahoma, the son of Eunice Alene (Pearson) and Fred Byron Harris, a sharecropper. [1] His parents disagreed on whether his middle name should be "Ray" or "Roy", and his handwritten birth certificate was ambiguous, allowing Harris to choose; he eventually used his mother's preferred name, Roy.