Charles West was an American politician who served as the first attorney general of Oklahoma from 1907 to 1915.

Biography

Charles West was born in

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on March 16, 1872. He graduated from

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hem ...

in 1891 and pursued post-graduate work at the

University of Leipzig Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 Decemb ...

. He was admitted to the

Oklahoma Territory The Territory of Oklahoma was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 2, 1890, until November 16, 1907, when it was joined with the Indian Territory under a new constitution and admitted to the Union as th ...

bar in 1895 and practiced in Pound Creek and Enid. He served in the Oklahoma National Guard between 1898 and 1910. He was the first attorney general of Oklahoma between 1907 and 1915. He was the president of the National Association of Attorneys General from 1911 to 1912. He is one of the only public attorneys to represent a

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as an official act of office in the United States.

Electoral history

References

{{s-end 1872 births Oklahoma attorneys general Oklahoma lawyers People from Oklahoma Territory People from Savannah, Georgia Johns Hopkins University alumni Leipzig University alumni Year of death missing 20th-century Oklahoma politicians