Ernest Whitworth Marland was an American lawyer, oil businessman in Pennsylvania and later Oklahoma, and politician who was a United States representative and 10th governor of Oklahoma. He served in t
Portrait by Solomon Trompetter c. 1927
10th Governor of Oklahoma E. W. (Ernest Whitworth) Marland (1874–1941, served 1935–1939), by sculptor / artist Jo Davidson, c.1928, Ponca City, Oklahoma
Protective by John Gregory: one of twelve Pioneer Woman models displayed at the Marland Mansion.
The Pioneer Woman statue was created by sculptor Bryant Baker and was unveiled in a public ceremony on April 22, 1930. Forty thousand guests came to hear Will Rogers pay tribute to Oklahoma's pioneers. The statue is 27 feet (8.2 m) high and weighs 12,000 pounds.
William Henry Davis Murray was an American educator, lawyer, and politician who served as the first Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, a U.S. Congressman from Oklahoma, and as the 9th G
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…Congress for a single two-years term, from 1933 to 1935. He declined reelection after entering the Democratic primary election to succeed ninth Governor William H. Murray. Marland won both the Democratic nomination and the general election in November 1934 to serve as the tenth governor of the state. On January 15, 1935…
Murray's friend and Oklahoma founding father Charles N. Haskell.
Governor Murray faced the beginnings of both the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl.
Murray lost the Democratic nomination to Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932. He later rejected FDR's New Deal.