William Henry Davis "Alfalfa Bill" 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, a
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.
The Red River Bridge War was a boundary conflict between the U.S. states of Oklahoma and Texas over an existing toll bridge and a new free bridge crossing the Red River.
Historical marker about the controversy, located at Texas welcome center, just south of the Oklahoma border