22nd Oklahoma Legislature
# 22nd Oklahoma Legislature

The Twenty-second Oklahoma Legislature was a meeting of the legislative branch of the government of Oklahoma, composed of the Oklahoma Senate and the Oklahoma House of Representatives. The state legislature met in regular session at the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City from January 4, 1949, to May 27, 1949; and in special session for 17 days in November and December 1949, during the term of Governor Roy J. Turner.

## Dates of session

* Regular session: January 4, 1949 – May 27, 1949
* Special session: November–December 1949

Previous: 21st Legislature • Next: 23rd Legislature

## Party composition

### Senate

| Affiliation | Party (Shading indicates majority caucus) | Party (Shading indicates majority caucus) | Total |
| - | - | - | - |
| Affiliation | Democratic | Republican | Total |
| | 39 | 5 | 44 |
| Voting share | 88.6% | 11.4% | |

### House of Representatives

| Affiliation | Party (Shading indicates majority caucus) | Party (Shading indicates majority caucus) | Total |
| - | - | - | - |
| Affiliation | Democratic | Republican | Total |
| | 103 | 12 | 115 |
| Voting share | 89.6% | 10.4% | |

## Leadership

### Senate

* Senate President Pro Tem: Bill Logan.

### House of Representatives

* Speaker: Walter Billingsley
* Speaker Pro Tempore: John W. Russell Jr.
* Majority Floor Leader: Joe A. Smalley
* Chief Clerk: Thomas P. Holt

## Members

### Senate

| District | Name | Party |
| - | - | - |
| 1 | Dwight Leonard | Dem |
| 2 | A. E. Anderson | Dem |
| 2 | Orval Grim | Dem |
| 3 | Claude Seaman | Rep |
| 4 | Henry W. Worthington | Dem |
| 5 | Burr Speck | Dem |
| 6 | Carl Max Cook | Dem |
| 6 | Byron Dacus | Dem |
| 7 | Bill Ginder | Rep |
| 8 | Floyd Carrier | Rep |
| 9 | Perry Howell | Rep |
| 10 | J. Val Connell | Dem |
| 11 | Everett Collins | Dem |
| 12 | Louis Ritzhaupt | Dem |
| 13 | Oliver Walker | Dem |
| 13 | Boyd Cowden | Dem |
| 14 | Jim Rinehart | Dem |
| 14 | John Jarman | Dem |
| 15 | Tom Jelks | Dem |
| 15 | Don Baldwin | Dem |
| 16 | Roy C. Boecher | Dem |
| 17 | Phil Lowery | Dem |
| 17 | Bill Logan | Dem |
| 18 | Joe B. Thompson | Dem |
| 19 | James C. Nance | Dem |
| 19 | Herbert Hope | Dem |
| 20 | Keith Cartwright | Dem |
| 21 | J. Gladstone Emery | Dem |
| 22 | Paul Ballinger | Dem |
| 23 | Virgil Medlock | Dem |
| 24 | Leroy McClendon | Dem |
| 25 | M. O. Counts | Dem |
| 26 | Raymond D. Gary | Dem |
| 27 | Will Rogers | Dem |
| 27 | Roy White | Dem |
| 28 | Ray Fine | Dem |
| 29 | W. T. Gooldy | Dem |
| 30 | Perry Porter | Dem |
| 31 | Arthur Price | Rep |
| 32 | James Nevins | Dem |
| 33 | W. A. Waller | Dem |
| 34 | Frank Mahan | Dem |
| 35 | H. D. Binns | Dem |
| 36 | Joe Bailey Cobb | Dem |

* Table based on 2005 Oklahoma Almanac.

### House of Representatives

| Name | Party | County |
| - | - | - |
| W. H. Langley | Dem | Adair |
| W. E. Cordray | Rep | Alfalfa |
| Bob Trent | Dem | Atoka |
| Floyd Sumrall | Dem | Beaver |
| H. F. Carmichael | Dem | Beckham |
| Jack Dillon | Rep | Blaine |
| James Douglas | Dem | Bryan |
| Jack McGahey | Dem | Bryan |
| Wayne Brewer | Dem | Caddo |
| Walter Morris | Dem | Caddo |
| Jean Pazoureck | Dem | Canadian |
| R. Rhys Evans | Dem | Carter |
| Ernest Tate | Dem | Carter |
| S. Richard Smith | Dem | Cherokee |
| Hal Welch | Dem | Choctaw |
| Roy T. Nall | Dem | Cimarron |
| Joe Smalley | Dem | Cleveland |
| T. K. Kinglesmith | Dem | Coal |
| Charles Ozmun | Dem | Comanche |
| Dick Riggs | Dem | Comanche |
| Luther Boyd Eubanks | Dem | Cotton |
| W. Walter Bailey | Dem | Craig |
| Lou Stockton Allard | Dem | Creek |
| Streeter Speakman | Dem | Creek |
| William Shibley | Dem | Creek |
| Wayne Wallace | Dem | Custer |
| A. B. Johnston | Dem | Delaware |
| Jim Kouns | Dem | Dewey |
| A. R. Larason | Dem | Ellis |
| John Camp | Rep | Garfield |
| Richard Romang | Rep | Garfield |
| J. Cecil Long | Dem | Garvin |
| Ike Tolbert | Dem | Garvin |
| John Lance | Dem | Grady |
| Bill Wallace | Dem | Grady |
| William Card | Dem | Grant |
| Wade Shumate | Dem | Greer |
| Valdhe Pitman | Dem | Harmon |
| Ben Douglas | Rep | Harper |
| D. C. Cantrell | Dem | Haskell |
| Tom Anglin | Dem | Hughes |
| Guy Horton | Dem | Jackson |
| Jack Coleman | Dem | Jefferson |
| Marvin Brannon | Dem | Johnston |
| Guy Bailey | Dem | Kay |
| H. Everett Black | Rep | Kay |
| W. A. Burton | Dem | Kingfisher |
| Lloyd Reeder | Dem | Kiowa |
| E. T. Dunlap | Dem | Latimer |
| Dual Autry | Dem | LeFlore |
| Edd C. Hawthorne | Dem | LeFlore |
| Jesse Berry | Rep | Lincoln |
| John Wagner | Rep | Lincoln |
| Lewis Wolfe | Rep | Logan |
| Thomas Anderson | Dem | Love |
| J. Howard Lindley | Rep | Major |
| Roy Biles | Dem | Marshall |
| Gus Bethell | Dem | Mayes |
| James R. Williams | Dem | McClain |
| James Dyer | Dem | McCurtain |
| Paul Harkey | Dem | McCurtain |
| Wilford Bohannon | Dem | McIntosh |
| L. B. Peak | Dem | Murray |
| Joe Cannon | Dem | Muskogee |
| Bill Haworth | Dem | Muskogee |
| Edwin Langley | Dem | Muskogee |
| F. C. Seids | Dem | Noble |
| Otis Munson | Dem | Nowata |
| William L. Jones | Dem | Okfuskee |
| Dwain Box | Dem | Oklahoma |
| Ben Brickell | Dem | Oklahoma |
| Robert Cunningham | Dem | Oklahoma |
| J. D. McCarty | Dem | Oklahoma |
| Norman Reynolds | Dem | Oklahoma |
| Robert Sherman | Dem | Oklahoma |
| W. R. Wallace | Dem | Oklahoma |
| Edgar Boatman | Dem | Okmulgee |
| John Russell Jr. | Dem | Okmulgee |
| Charles Bacon | Dem | Osage |
| Bill Burkhart | Dem | Osage |
| Jess Fronterhouse | Dem | Ottawa |
| Robert Reynolds Jr. | Dem | Ottawa |
| Ray D. Henry | Dem | Pawnee |
| Robert L. Hert | Dem | Payne |
| Lonnie Brown | Dem | Pittsburg |
| Kirksey Nix | Dem | Pittsburg |
| Gene Stipe | Dem | Pittsburg |
| J. W. Huff | Dem | Pontotoc |
| H. P. Sugg | Dem | Pontotoc |
| Frank Brown | Dem | Pottawatomie |
| A. J. Ownby | Dem | Pottawatomie |
| William Tiffany | Dem | Pottawatomie |
| Curtis Roberson | Dem | Pushmataha |
| S. S. McColgin | Dem | Roger Mills |
| Dave L. Smith | Dem | Rogers |
| Walter Billingsley | Dem | Seminole |
| N. Blaylock | Dem | Seminole |
| Charles Sims | Dem | Seminole |
| Owen Taylor | Dem | Sequoyah |
| James Bullard | Dem | Stephens |
| Harold Garvin | Dem | Stephens |
| Leon B. Field | Dem | Texas |
| D. H. Laing | Dem | Tillman |
| Harvey Allen | Dem | Tulsa |
| S. H. Andrews | Dem | Tulsa |
| James G. Davidson | Dem | Tulsa |
| Wesley V. Disney | Dem | Tulsa |
| Grant Forsythe | Dem | Tulsa |
| Al Jennings | Dem | Tulsa |
| Richard T. Oliver | Dem | Tulsa |
| Carlisle Duke | Dem | Wagoner |
| Laton Doty | Rep | Washington |
| Dale Griffin | Dem | Washita |
| Ben Easterly | Dem | Woods |
| Clarence Meigs | Rep | Woodward |

* Table based on government database.
