| Politicians buried
here: |
| | 
Milton Cline Garber (1867-1948) —
also known as Milton C. Garber —
of Enid, Garfield
County, Okla.
Born in Humboldt
County, Calif., November
30, 1867.
Son of Martin Garber and Lucy A. (Rife) Garber.
Republican. Lawyer; newspaper
publisher; co-founder, along with his father and brother, of
Garber, Okla.; Garfield
County Probate Judge, 1902-06; justice of
Oklahoma territorial supreme court, 1906-07; appointed 1906;
district judge in Oklahoma 20th District, 1908-12; mayor of
Enid, Okla., 1919-21; U.S.
Representative from Oklahoma 8th District, 1923-33; defeated,
1932.
Disciples
of Christ. Member, Eagles.
Died in Alexandria, Douglas
County, Minn., September
12, 1948 (age 80 years, 287
days).
Interment at Memorial Park Cemetery.
|
| |
Page Henry Belcher (1899-1980) —
also known as Page Belcher —
of Enid, Garfield
County, Okla.
Born in Jefferson, Grant
County, Okla., April 21,
1899.
Son of George Harvey Belcher and Jessie (Ray) Belcher.
Republican. Lawyer;
secretary to U.S. Rep. Ross
Rizley, 1941; U.S.
Representative from Oklahoma, 1951-73 (8th District 1951-53, 1st
District 1953-73).
Methodist.
Member, Kiwanis;
American
Legion; Odd
Fellows.
Named to Oklahoma Hall of
Fame.
Died in Midwest City, Oklahoma
County, Okla., August 2,
1980 (age 81 years, 103
days).
Interment at Memorial Park Cemetery.
|
| |
George Howard Wilson (1905-1985) —
also known as George H. Wilson —
of Enid, Garfield
County, Okla.
Born in Mattoon, Coles
County, Ill., August
21, 1905.
Democrat. Colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; U.S.
Representative from Oklahoma 8th District, 1949-51; defeated,
1950; superior court judge in Oklahoma, 1952-68; district judge in
Oklahoma, 1969.
Died in Enid, Garfield
County, Okla., July 16,
1985 (age 79 years, 329
days).
Interment at Memorial Park Cemetery.
|
|
The Political Graveyard
is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries.
Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source
for American political biography, listing 234,420
politicians, living and dead. |
| |
| |
The coverage of the site includes (1) the President, Vice President,
members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in
all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and
the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying
municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for
any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges;
(4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet,
diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys,
collectors of customs and internal revenue, and members of major
federal commissions; and (5) state and national political party officials,
including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in
national party nominating conventions. |
|
| |
The listings are incomplete; development of the database
is a continually ongoing project. |
|
| |
Information on this page — and on all other pages of this
site — is believed to be accurate, but is not
guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources
before relying on any information here. |
|
| |
The official URL for this page is: http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OK/GA-buried.html. |
|
| |
Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page
are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes
change as the site develops. |
|
| |
If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the
alphabetical index of
politicians. |
|
| |
More information: FAQ;
privacy policy;
cemetery links. |
|
| |
If you find any error or omission in The Political Graveyard,
or if you have information to share, please see the
biographical checklist and
submission guidelines. |
|
|
Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained
by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure
and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard,
P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by
HDL. —
The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996;
the last full revision was done on
May 12, 2012.
|
|
Copyright notice: Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist
v. Rural Telephone. Original material, programming, selection and
arrangement are © 1996-2011 Lawrence Kestenbaum. This work is also
licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons
License. |
![[Amazon.com]](http://politicalgraveyard.com/images/a150X70b.gif)
