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Brower, John Morehead
(1845-1913) — also
known as John M. Brower — of Mt. Airy,
Surry County, N.C.; Boswell, Choctaw County, Okla. Born in Greensboro, Guilford
County, N.C., July 19, 1845. Republican. Merchant;
tobacco grower; member of North Carolina state senate, 1876-78;
U.S. Representative from North Carolina 5th
District, 1887-91; member of North Carolina state house of representatives,
1896-98. Died in Paris, Lamar County,
Tex., August 5, 1913. Interment at Oakdale Cemetery, Mt. Airy, N.C.
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BROWER, John Morehead, (1845 - 1913), a
Representative from North Carolina; born in Greensboro, Guilford County,
N.C., July 19, 1845; moved to Surry County, N.C.,
with his parents, who settled in Mount Airy in 1845; educated
by private tutors and attended the Mount Airy Male
Academy; engaged in agricultural pursuits, the raising and processing
of tobacco, and mercantile pursuits; delegate to
all Republican State conventions from 1872 to 1896; member of
the State senate 1876-1878; elected as a Republican to
the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1887-March
3, 1891); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in
the Post Office Department (Fifty-first Congress); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1890 to the
Fifty-second Congress; member of the State house of representatives 1896-1898;
resumed his former agricultural and business
pursuits; moved to Oklahoma and settled in Boswell, Choctaw County,
in 1907 and engaged in the manufacture of lumber,
agricultural pursuits, and stock raising; died in Paris, Lamar
County, Tex., August 5, 1913; interment in Oakdale
Cemetery, Mount Airy, N.C.
Babb, H. A. — of Hugo,
Choctaw County,
Okla. Republican. Delegate to Republican
National Convention from Oklahoma, 1932. Presumed deceased. Burial location
unknown. [Submitted by Norm Gentry]
Brewer, O. A. — of
Hugo, Choctaw County,
Okla. Democrat. Delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Oklahoma, 1944. Still living as of 1944.
Harris, Carmon Coleman
(b. 1904) — also
known as Carmon C. Harris — of Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma County, Okla. Born in Boswell, Choctaw County, Okla., November
27, 1904. Republican. Lawyer; served in the U.S.
Army during World War II; candidate for U.S. Representative from
Oklahoma 5th District, 1946, 1948. Christian. Member,
Lions; Sigma Phi Epsilon. Presumed deceased. Burial location
unknown. [Submitted by Norm Gentry]
Warren, Robert K. - We,
members of the
Bar of the Eastern District of Oklahoma,
moved by our high regard for the life and public service of the late Robert
King Warren, County Attorney of Choctaw County,
Oklahoma, who departed this life on the 24th day of March, 1926,
desiring to record the high respect and esteem we
entertained for our departed brother and to express our regret
for the loss which the Court, the Bar and the people
of Oklahoma have sustained in his untimely death, adopt the
following
Robert King Warren
was born July 10, 1867 at Lavinia, Carroll County, Tennessee, being the son of
John B. Warren
and Minerva Elizabeth (Smith) Warren. He was
educated in the public schools of his native village. He then entered
Hendricks College at McKenzie, Tennessee, and
remained there unto his junior year. In 1887 he received an appointment
in the United States Indian Service and was
stationed in what was then Washington Territory. He alter returned
to Tennessee and entered the law department of
Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee, graduating with the
class of ’89. He then entered into the practice of his
profession at Huntington, Tennessee, the county seat
of
Carroll County, with Judge Joseph Hawkins for a period
of four years. Suffering a serious illness, which for
the
time being undermined his health he came west and
followed other occupations until 1911 when he opened a law office
at Fort Towson, in Choctaw County. In 1912 he was
elected County Attorney of Choctaw County, at a time when he
had been a resident of the county but a little over a
year. He was re-elected to the same office in 1914. In 1916
he was elected a member of the Sixth Legislature of
the State of Oklahoma, in which body he served with
marked
distinction. After the adjournment of that
Legislature he resumed the private practice of law at Hugo, which he
continued until his election as County Attorney in 1924.
Though a sick man at the time of his election he assiduously
remained at his post of duty until within a few
days of his death.
In the discharge of his duties as a
prosecuting attorney he possessed to a remarkable degree a desire that justice
might be done. The thought of personal glory or
renown for a successful prosecution was ever absent from his mind.
His record will long stand as being a great
prosecutor but likewise will his record of fairness to an accused.
He never brought shame to Oklahoma by stooping to
conquer. As a lawyer at the bar in private practice he was to
be feared by any opponent but he never forgot his duty
to the court or to the traditions of his profession.
The
memory of Robert K. Warren will long live in the hearts
of the people of this State. By every standard he is worthy
of our esteem and love and its expression in a
permanent form.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Bar
of the Eastern District of Oklahoma that in the death of Robert K. Warren
the Bar and the people of his community have
sustained a great loss. We express our deep sympathy to his relatives
and that this memorial be presented to the United
States District Court with the request that it be recorded in
its journal.
Filed
Jun. 14, 1926.
W. V. McClure,
Clerk U.
S. District Court.
Attest: A true copy of above order,
W. Y. McClure, Clerk.
By Maggie Dagley, Deputy.
[Source:
"Chronicles of Oklahoma" Volume 4, No. 3, September,
1926 -
Submitted by Linda Craig]
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