Garfield County, Oklahoma Biographies

Garfield County, Oklahoma Biographies

CALLAHAN, James Yancy, a Delegate from the Territory of Oklahoma; born on a farm near Salem, Dent County, Mo., December 19, 1852; attended the common schools; entered the ministry in 1880; engaged in agricultural pursuits, saw-milling, and mining; moved to Stanton County, Kans., in 1885; elected register of deeds in 1886; reelected in 1888 and served until December 1889, when he resigned; returned to Dent County, Mo.; moved to Oklahoma in 1892 and settled near Kingfisher, Kingfisher County, and engaged in agricultural pursuits; elected on the Free Silver ticket to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1899); was not a candidate for renomination in 1898; published the Jacksonian at Enid, Garfield County, Okla., until January 1, 1913; retired from active business pursuits and resided in Enid, Okla., until his death there on May 3, 1935; interment in Enid Cemetery. [-- Contributed by A. Newell]

CAMP, John Newbold Happy, a Representative from Oklahoma; born in Enid, Garfield County, Okla., May 11, 1908; attended elementary and high schools in Blackwell, Douglas, and Waukomis, Okla.; attended Phillips University, Enid, Okla.; engaged in the business of banking; president, Waukomis State Bank; member, State of Oklahoma Legislature, 1942-1962; chairman, Oklahoma State Board of Public Affairs, 1967-1968; served as Republican Party precinct chairman, Garfield County Young Republican chairman, and Oklahoma committee member; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-first and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1969-January 3, 1975); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; was a resident of Waukomis, Okla., until his death in Enid, Okla., on September 27, 1987; interment in Waukomis Cemetery. [-- Contributed by A. Newell]