21st Oklahoma Legislature
# 21st Oklahoma Legislature

The Twenty-first 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 from January 7 to May 8, 1947, during the term of Governor Roy J. Turner. The session was marked by a gunfight on the Senate floor, in which a state representative shot Tom Anglin, a state senator and former Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, in the hip, on May 7, 1947.

James C. Nance served as President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate and C. R. Board served as Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.

## Dates of session

* Session: January 7, 1947 – May 8, 1947

Previous: 20th Legislature • Next: 22nd Legislature

## Party composition

### Senate

| Affiliation | Party (Shading indicates majority caucus) | Party (Shading indicates majority caucus) | Total |
| - | - | - | - |
| Affiliation | Democratic | Republican | Total |
| | 38 | 6 | 44 |
| Voting share | 86.4% | 13.6% | |

### House of Representatives

| Affiliation | Party (Shading indicates majority caucus) | Party (Shading indicates majority caucus) | Total |
| - | - | - | - |
| Affiliation | Democratic | Republican | Total |
| | 95 | 22 | 117 |
| Voting share | 81.2% | 18.8% | |

## Leadership

### Senate

James C. Nance served as President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate.

### House of Representatives

C. R. Board served as Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives and Claud Thompson served as Speaker Pro Tempore. R. Rhys Evans served as the House Majority Floor Leader. Bob Barr served as the Chief Clerk of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.

## 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 | L.E. Wheeler | Dem |
| 6 | Byron Dacus | Dem |
| 7 | Bill Ginder | Rep |
| 8 | Floyd Carrier | Rep |
| 9 | Perry Howell | Rep |
| 10 | Sherman Trussel | Rep |
| 11 | Everett Collins | Dem |
| 12 | Louis Ritzhaupt | Dem |
| 13 | Mead Norton | Dem |
| 13 | Boyd Cowden | Dem |
| 14 | Jim A. Rinehart | Dem |
| 14 | Robert Burns | Dem |
| 15 | Tom Jelks | Dem |
| 15 | Theodore Pruett | Dem |
| 16 | E. B. Grennell | Rep |
| 17 | Phil Lowery | Dem |
| 17 | Bill Logan | Dem |
| 18 | Fred Chapman | Dem |
| 19 | James C. Nance | Dem |
| 19 | Homer Paul | Dem |
| 20 | Bayless Irby | Dem |
| 21 | J. Gladstone Emery | Dem |
| 22 | Tom Anglin | Dem |
| 23 | Virgil Medlock | Dem |
| 24 | Thomas Finney | 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 |
| Harold Toaz | Dem | Atoka |
| W. T. Quinn | Rep | Beaver |
| H. C. Hathcoat | Dem | Beckham |
| Jack Dillon | Rep | Blaine |
| Keith Cartwright | Dem | Bryan |
| Clark White | Dem | Bryan |
| Don Baldwin | Dem | Caddo |
| Walter Morris | Dem | Caddo |
| Jean Pazoureck | Dem | Canadian |
| R. Rhys Evans | Dem | Carter |
| Wilson Wallace | Dem | Carter |
| S. Richard Smith | Dem | Cherokee |
| Hal Welch | Dem | Choctaw |
| C. R. Board | Dem | Cimarron |
| Joe Smalley | Dem | Cleveland |
| Owen Summers | Dem | Coal |
| Charles Ozmun | Dem | Comanche |
| Dick Riggs | Dem | Comanche |
| G. G. Upchurch | Dem | Cotton |
| W. Walter Bailey | Dem | Craig |
| Lou Stockton Allard | Dem | Creek |
| Streeter Speakman | Dem | Creek |
| William Shibley | Dem | Creek |
| William Dunn | Dem | Custer |
| Mattison Sparkman | Dem | Delaware |
| Jim Kouns | Dem | Dewey |
| A. R. Larason | Dem | Ellis |
| John Camp | Rep | Garfield |
| Martin Garber | Rep | Garfield |
| Easter Brown | Dem | Garvin |
| Ike Tolbert | Dem | Garvin |
| C. C. Chastain | Dem | Grady |
| A. E. Hennings | Dem | Grady |
| J. C. Hoffsommer | Rep | Grant |
| Wade Shumate | Dem | Greer |
| Wilburn Medaris | Dem | Harmon |
| C. F. Miles | Dem | Harper |
| D. C. Cantrell | Dem | Haskell |
| Paul Ballinger | Dem | Hughes |
| Jimie Scott | Dem | Hughes |
| Guy Horton | Dem | Jackson |
| D. L. Jones | Dem | Jackson |
| Jack Coleman | Dem | Jefferson |
| Marvin Brannon | Dem | Johnston |
| C. B. McCLean | Rep | Kay |
| James McNeese | Rep | Kay |
| W. A. Burton Jr. | Dem | Kingfisher |
| Ralph Farrar | Dem | Kiowa |
| E. T. Dunlap | Dem | Latimer |
| Dual Autry | Dem | LeFlore |
| Edd C. Hawthorne | Dem | LeFlore |
| C. L. Mills | Rep | Lincoln |
| Lloyd McGuire | Rep | Logan |
| Joe Thompson | Dem | Love |
| Sam Alexander | Rep | Major |
| Roy Biles | Dem | Marshall |
| Gus Bethell | Dem | Mayes |
| Purman Wilson | Dem | McClain |
| James Dyer | Dem | McCurtain |
| Paul Harkey | Dem | McCurtain |
| Clinton White | Dem | McIntosh |
| Jack Barron | Dem | Murray |
| Carl Frix | Dem | Muskogee |
| H. P. Watkins | Dem | Muskogee |
| David Wood | Dem | Muskogee |
| Henry Bellmon | Rep | Noble |
| James Staten | Dem | Nowata |
| Dwight Tolle | Dem | Okfuskee |
| Dwain Box | Dem | Oklahoma |
| Harold Carey | Dem | Oklahoma |
| Ben Gullett | Dem | Oklahoma |
| John Jarman | Dem | Oklahoma |
| B. B. Kerr | Dem | Oklahoma |
| J. D. McCarty | Dem | Oklahoma |
| Paul Washington | Dem | Oklahoma |
| John W. Russell Jr. | Dem | Okmulgee |
| Bill Shipley | Dem | Okmulgee |
| B. L. Williams | Dem | Okmulgee |
| Charles Bacon | Dem | Osage |
| Bill Burkhart | Dem | Osage |
| Grace Mitchelson | Dem | Ottawa |
| Mona Jean Russell | Dem | Ottawa |
| Jo Ferguson | Rep | Pawnee |
| J. H. Arrington | Dem | Payne |
| Lonnie Brown | Dem | Pittsburg |
| C. Plowboy Edwards | Dem | Pittsburg |
| Garland Jordan | Dem | Pittsburg |
| Thomas Holt | Dem | Pontotoc |
| H. P. Sugg | Dem | Pontotoc |
| James Densford | Dem | Pottawatomie |
| John Levergood | Dem | Pottawatomie |
| William Tiffany | Dem | Pottawatomie |
| Claud Thompson | Dem | Pushmataha |
| S. S. McColgin | Dem | Roger Mills |
| E. W. Meads | Dem | Rogers |
| Walter Billingsley | Dem | Seminole |
| N. Blaylock | Dem | Seminole |
| Con Long | Dem | Seminole |
| Owen Taylor | Dem | Sequoyah |
| James Bullard | Dem | Stephens |
| D. A. Segrest | Dem | Stephens |
| Leon B. Field | Dem | Texas |
| E. H. Shelton | Dem | Tillman |
| Robert Alexander | Rep | Tulsa |
| George Campbell | Rep | Tulsa |
| Joe Harshbarger | Rep | Tulsa |
| Richard McDermott | Rep | Tulsa |
| Joe Musgrave | Rep | Tulsa |
| C. R. Nixon | Rep | Tulsa |
| A. E. Williams | Rep | Tulsa |
| John T. Waggoner | Dem | Wagoner |
| Laton Doty | Rep | Washington |
| A. R. Ash | Dem | Washita |
| Ben Easterly | Dem | Woods |
| Clarence Meigs | Rep | Woodward |

* Table based on government database.
