Thomas, Elmer, 1876-1965
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1876-09-08 - 1965-09-19
Biography
John William Elmer Thomas was a native of Indiana who moved to Oklahoma Territory in 1901, where he practiced law in Lawton. After statehood, he was elected to the first state senate, representing the Lawton area.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Politics and politicians
File
Identifier: 2006.012.13
Scope and Contents
From the File:
An artificial collection that consists of materials pertaining to Oklahoma and Oklahomans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is not part of any other collection.The Oklahoma Collection subsumes the old Oklahoma Ephemera, Oklahoma Historical Photos and Docs and Oklahoma Maps collections. Ephemera was a remnant of the McFarlin Reference Department's vertical files, the larger portion having been sent to the Tulsa City-County Library, which was kept during the late 1940s...
Dates:
1864 - 1991