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Continuously since 1928 selected individuals have been inducted every year, with 648 being inducted to date. Anyone who meets the criteria can be nominated for induction each year. Individuals who have been inducted have come from a wide range of professions the most being Actors, Singer, Athletics, Aviation, TV/Radio and many others. Some the more notable inductees are Gene Autry who was a will known singer and actor, Jim Thorpe who was a well known athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics, Mickey Mantle who was a will known baseball player who played for the New York Yankees from 1951 to 1968, and Wiley Post who was a will known aviator. Busts and paintings of the inductees can be seen at the Gaylord-Pickens Oklahoma Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. Among the 635 members are[1]
Members
1928
Picture | Name | Birth | Death | Contribution | Notes |
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Dennis T. Flynn | February 13, 1861 | June 19, 1939 | Congressman | ||
Elizabeth Fulton Hester | January 1839 | August 2, 1929 | Civic Leader |
1929
Picture | Name | Birth | Death | Contribution | Notes |
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James S. Buchanan | October 14, 1864 | March 20, 1930 | Educator | Fourth president of the University of Oklahoma. | |
Charles F. Colcord | August 18, 1859 | December 10, 1934 | Oilman | The community of Colcord, Oklahoma is named for him. | |
Alice M. Robertson | January 2, 1854 | July 1, 1931 | Congresswomen | The second woman to serve in the United States Congress, and the first from the state of Oklahoma. | |
R.A. Sneed | Unknown | Unknown | Public Servant | Oklahoma Secretary of State from 1923 to 1927. |
1930
Picture | Name | Birth | Death | Contribution | Notes |
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David Ross Boyd | 1853 | November 17, 1936 | Educator | First president of the University of Oklahoma. | |
Alice Brown Davis | September 10, 1852 | June 21, 1935 | Seminole Chief | First female Principal Chief of the Seminole Tribe of Oklahoma, and served from 1922–1935. | |
E.K. Gaylord | March 5, 1873 | May 30, 1974 | Publisher | Was the owner and publisher of The Oklahoman. | |
Annette Ross Hume | March 8, 1858 | January 19, 1933 | Civic Leader | ||
Graves Leeper | May 23, 1854 | March 2, 1931 | Public Servant | Oklahoma Secretary of State from 1927 to 1931. | |
Frank Phillips | November 28, 1873 | August 23, 1950 | Oilman | Founded Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville, Oklahoma in 1917, along with his brother, Lee Eldas "L.E." Phillips, Sr. | |
Joseph W. Scroggs | October 26, 1852 | Unknown | Educator |
1931
Picture | Name | Birth | Death | Contribution | Notes |
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Charles F. Barrett | Military | ||||
Laura Clubb | philanthropist | ||||
100px | Gregory Gerrer | July 23, 1867 | August 24, 1946 | Artist | Benedictine Priest at Sacred Heart Abbey (later, St. Gregory's Abbey} |
Roy A. Hoffman | Military | ||||
Douglas H. Johnston | October 13, 1856 | June 28, 1939 | Chickasaw Chief | Governor of the Chickasaw Nation from 1898 to 1902 and from 1904 to 1939. | |
E.W. Marland | May 8, 1874 | October 3, 1941 | Oilman | Served as the tenth Governor of Oklahoma. | |
Benjamin F. Nihart | Educator | ||||
Joseph B. Thoburn | Historian |
References
- ^ "Oklahoma Hall of Fame By Name". Oklahoma Heritage Association. Retrieved November 3, 2010.