William H. Murray
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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
Murray, c. 1910s
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.
Mary Alice Hearrell Murray
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Mary Alice Hearrell Murray was an American and Chickasaw woman who served as the First Lady of Oklahoma between 1931 and 1935. She was married to Governor William H. Murray and the mother of Johnston
William H. Murray
…started his political career with several failed runs for political office in his home state of Texas before moving to Indian Territory where he married Mary Alice Hearrell Murray, the niece of Chickasaw Nation Governor Douglas H. Johnston. Although not American Indian, he was appointed by Johnston as the Chickasaw delegate to…
Mary Alice with her husband William H. Murray and three of their children in 1907.