Frank M. Wooden was an American politician who served as the 12th

Mayor of Tulsa This is a list of mayors of Tulsa, a city in the U.S. state In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a s ...

between 1912 and 1916. He is the only mayor of

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to be

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and removed from office.

Biography

Frank M. Wooden, a member of the

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, was elected

in 1912 after he defeated the Republican nominee John Simmons. He was later indicted by a

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for failing to enforce

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and bans on

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. In 1916 he became the first, and only, mayor of Tulsa to be impeached and removed from office. He later served as a county commissioner and as the state school land commission appraiser.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wooden, Frank M. 20th-century mayors of places in Oklahoma Tulsa County Commissioners Mayors of Tulsa, Oklahoma Oklahoma Democrats Year of birth missing Year of death missing