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2006 Oklahoma Elections
The Oklahoma state elections were held on November 7, 2006. The primary election was held on July 25. The runoff primary election was held August 22.2006 Election Results Oklahoma State Election Board (accessed May 8, 2013) The 2006 elections marked the first time in 80 years that the Republican Party gained a majority of seats in the . Overview Executive Branch Before Election Legislature Before Election Executive Branch After E ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandy Garrett
Sandy Garrett is a retired American Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Garrett is the former Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction. She was first elected to this office in 1990, and again in 1994, 1998, 2002, and 2006. Garrett was the first woman to hold the office of Superintendent and is the only woman to hold a statewide office for five consecutive terms. In 2010, Garrett announced that she would not seek a sixth term in office. Biography Sandy Garrett was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and later graduated from Stilwell High School. She received her bachelor's degree in 1966 and a master's degree in guidance counseling in 1968 from Northeastern State University. Garrett briefly pursued but did not complete postgraduate education at the University of Oklahoma and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She later returned to Muskogee, where she spent 15 years as a teacher and a gifted programs coordinator in Muskogee County sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Pruitt
Edward Scott Pruitt (born May 9, 1968) is an American attorney, lobbyist and Republican Party (United States), Republican politician from the state of Oklahoma. He served as the 14th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from February 17, 2017, to July 9, 2018, during the First presidency of Donald Trump, Donald Trump presidency, resigning while under at least 14 federal investigations. Pruitt Climate change denial, denies the scientific consensus on climate change. Pruitt represented Tulsa County, Oklahoma, Tulsa and Wagoner County, Oklahoma, Wagoner counties in the Oklahoma Senate from 1998 until 2006. In 2010, Pruitt was elected Attorney General of Oklahoma. In that role, he opposed abortion, Same-sex marriage in the United States, same-sex marriage, the Affordable Care Act, and environmental regulations as a self-described "leading advocate against the EPA's activist agenda." He sued the EPA at least 14 times in the role. Pruitt was elected as chairman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Todd Hiett
Todd Hiett (born 1967) is an American rancher and politician who has served on the Oklahoma Corporation Commission since 2015. A rancher from Kellyville, Oklahoma, Hiett was elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives in 1994 and served until term limited in 2006. He was elected the Republican minority leader in 2002 and became Speaker of the House in 2005 when Republicans won control of the chamber. Hiett was the first Republican to hold that position in over eight decades. In 2006, he launched a campaign to succeed Mary Fallin as the Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma. Hiett lost the 2006 race to the Democratic nominee Jari Askins. In 2014, Hiett was elected to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission and he was reelected in 2020. In April 2019 his fellow commissioners elected him chairman of the commission. He resigned the chairmanship in August 2024. Education and family Todd Hiett graduated from Oklahoma State University. He is married with three children and lives on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert J
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown, godlike" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin.Reaney & Wilson, 1997. ''Dictionary of English Surnames''. Oxford University Press. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe, the name entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Istook
Ernest James "Ernie" Istook Jr. (born February 11, 1950) is a retired American lawyer and politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 5th congressional district. He held his congressional seat for 14 years, completing seven terms in the House. Currently, Istook is a Distinguished Fellow at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., and also a talk radio host. In 2010, Istook became a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School leading a study on Propaganda in American Politics. He was a member of the Appropriations and the Homeland Security committees. He was the Republican gubernatorial nominee in 2006, running against incumbent Democratic governor Brad Henry. Istook lost the gubernatorial race by a very wide margin, getting only 33.5% of the vote to Henry's 66.5%. Early life and career Istook's grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Hungary through Ellis Island and spoke Hungarian at home. He graduated from Cast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Fields
Lloyd L. Fields (born September 10, 1957) is an American politician who was Oklahoma Commissioner of Labor from 2007 to 2011. A Democrat, he was elected in 2006, receiving 456,373 votes, a narrow margin of 50.15%. He defeated 12-year incumbent Republican Brenda Reneau, who received 49.85%, or 453,645 votes, after having lost to her in the 2002 election. Fields was defeated for reelection to a second term by Republican Mark Costello in the 2010 election. Controversy Alleged theft and intoxication In February 2008, Fields asked "for forgiveness" from the people of Oklahoma for allegedly stealing a guitar from a professional bull rider while intoxicated at a rodeo. He was later taken into police custody and spent the night at a Public Inebriate Alternative Center just north of Bricktown. He was not arrested or charged, however. Lawsuit In May 2009, Fields settled a federal lawsuit that accused the Labor Commissioner's office of forcing out a Republican employee because of her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jari Askins
Jari Askins (born April 27, 1953) is an American judge, lawyer, and Democratic politician from the state of Oklahoma. She was the 15th lieutenant governor of Oklahoma, being the second woman, the first female Democrat, and the most recent Democrat to hold that position. Askins won the Oklahoma Democratic Party's 2010 gubernatorial nomination by defeating Attorney General Drew Edmondson. She was defeated in the general election by Republican Congresswoman Mary Fallin. Early life, education and career Jari Askins was born on April 27, 1953, in Duncan, Oklahoma. She was raised there and graduated from Duncan High School in 1971. She went on to attend the University of Oklahoma and earned a Bachelor of Arts in journalism in 1975. While at OU, she was a member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority. Askins earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 1980. After graduating from OU, she entered into private practice. In 1982, Askins was appointed Special Distri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oklahoma Senate
The Oklahoma Senate is the upper house of the two houses of the Legislature of Oklahoma, the other being the Oklahoma House of Representatives. The total number of senators is set at 48 by the Oklahoma Constitution.Section V-9A: Senatorial districts - Tenure a Oklahoma Public Legal Research System (accessed August 1, 2018) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Anthony
Robert Anthony (born May 15, 1948) is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma who briefly served on the Oklahoma City Council and who is the longest serving statewide elected official in state history after serving 36 years on the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. After serving on the Oklahoma City Council from 1979 to 1980, Anthony was elected to the corporation commission in 1989. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate in 2004, and unsuccessful candidate for United States Congress running against Glenn English in 1990. He served six consecutive six year terms on the commission and was term limited in 2024. With the retirement of Doug La Follette as Wisconsin Secretary of State in 2023, Anthony became the earliest serving statewide elected official in the United States, not counting federal offices, having held the same office since 1989. Anthony officially left office in January 2025. Early life and career Anthony was born at St. Anth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oklahoma Corporation Commission
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission is the public utilities commission of the U.S state of Oklahoma run by three statewide elected commissioners. Authorized to employ more than 500 employees, it regulates oil and gas drilling, utilities and telephone companies. History The commission was established in 1907 and the First Oklahoma Legislature gave the commission authority to regulate public service corporations.Annual Report - History and Responsibilities (accessed May 22, 2013) Railroad, telephone and telegraph companies were the companies first regulated by the commission, which also collected records of the stockholders, officers and directors of corporations chartered or licensed to do business in Oklahoma. Record collection duties were later split; the commission k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Holland
Kim Holland (born August 6, 1955) is an American politician and insurance professional from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. She served as the Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner from 2005 until January 2011. She was appointed insurance commissioner by Governor Brad Henry in 2005, following the impeachment and resignation of her predecessor, Carroll Fisher. The second woman to serve as the state insurance commissioner, she was re-elected in 2006 to a full four-year term. In 2010, attempting to gain her second full term in office, Holland faced Republican nominee John D. Doak, who defeated her in November's general election. Doak assumed office on January 10, 2011.Insurance commissioner will seek another term " ''The Oklahoman'', February 2, 2010 (accessed February 12, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
