About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 50. Chapters: Jerry Falwell, Allen G. Thurman, Robert Latham Owen, Andrew Sledd, Charles Vess, Phil Vassar, Carl Anderson, Samuel Untermyer, Kenan Thompson, Skeet Ulrich, Desmond Doss, Brandon Inge, Romeo Crennel, Lucius Shepard, Vic Hall, Connie Britton, Brad Butler, Leland D. Melvin, Jay Busbee, Cedric Peerman, David Hobbs, Walter G. Alexander, William T. Clement, James W. Watts, Samuel Garland, Jr., Paris Lenon, Chuck Taylor, Dylan Baker, Ray Pillow, Daniel Weisiger Adams, Robert Walter Johnson, Anthony Poindexter, Bill Chambers, Donna Andrews, Shannon R. Valentine, Greg Best, Meg Christian, R. K. Johnson, George Adams, Robert Ridgway, Anthony Clark, Thomas Whitehead, Steve Hood, T. Scott Garrett, Travis Bowyer, Luke Jordan, Chiswell Langhorne, Carrie Allen McCray, Mike Barr, Hopkins Holsey, Cary DeVall Langhorne, J. Eddie Peck, Watkins Moorman Abbitt, Archibald Stuart, George H. Walker, Martha Hamlett, Tim Sandidge, Denice D. Lewis, Ben Betts, Rashad Jennings, Frank Wright, Jr., Chuck Carrington, Curt Finch, Zeb Turner, Johnnie Moore, Jr., Lloyd Rutherford Craighill, Elizabeth Tyler. Excerpt: Robert Latham Owen, Jr. (February 2, 1856 - July 19, 1947) was one of the first two U.S. senators from Oklahoma. He served in the Senate between 1907 and 1925. He earlier came to public notice as a successful lawyer of part-Cherokee ancestry, who in 1906 won a major court case on behalf of the Eastern Cherokees seeking compensation from the US Government for eastern lands the Cherokees had given up at the time of the Indian removals. A Democrat active in many progressive causes, including efforts to strengthen public control of government, and the fight against child labor, Owen is especially remembered as the Senate sponsor of the Glass-Owen Federal Reserve Act of 1913, which created the Federal Reserve System. He subsequently became hi...
