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Image courtesy of the Carl Albert Center Congressional Archives |
GILMER, William Franklin (Dixie), a Representative from Oklahoma; born in Mount Airy, Surry County,
N.C., June 7, 1901; moved with his parents to Oklahoma; attended the public
schools of Oklahoma City, Okla.; served as a page in the House of
Representatives 1911-1919; graduated from the law school of Oklahoma University
at Norman in 1923; was admitted to the bar in 1923 and commenced the practice
of law in Oklahoma; member of the State house of representatives; moved to
Tulsa, Okla., in 1929; assistant county attorney of Tulsa County, Okla.,
1931-1933; county attorney of Tulsa County 1936-1946; unsuccessful for the
Democratic nomination for Governor in 1946; elected as a Democrat to the
Eighty-first Congress (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1951); unsuccessful candidate
for reelection in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress; State safety commissioner
until his death in Oklahoma City, Okla., June 9, 1954; interment in Memorial
Park.
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