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Alfalfa Bill Murray
Author | : Keith L. Bryant |
Publsiher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2016-02-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780806154398 |
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William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray is the most important figure in the political history of Oklahoma. No other individual contributed so greatly to the formation of its political institutions—and there was never a more colorful or controversial character on the state’s political scene. Flamboyant, unpredictable, and stubborn, Alfalfa Bill became a legend. President of the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention, speaker of the first House of Representatives, two-term congressman, and governor of Oklahoma, the Texas-born Murray made an indelible mark on his adopted state. But he also made enemies. During the struggle for statehood he waged a hard battle over the constitution, taking on President Theodore Roosevelt and Secretary of War William Howard Taft. As Oklahoma governor, Murray challenged the oil industry, newspaper interests, and the state of Texas. To enforce his programs, he relied on the National Guard. While governor, Murray called out the guard forty-seven times for duties ranging from policing ticket sales at University of Oklahoma football games, to patrolling oil fields, to guarding the Red River Bridge during the infamous Bridge War with Texas. In 1932 he ran for the Democratic nomination for president, and his fame spread across the nation. When candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt offered a program for national recovery, Murray countered with “Bread, Butter, Bacon, and Beans.” In describing Murray’s frustrated efforts to preserve the agricultural American of the nineteenth century, Bryant has written a perceptive biography presenting the first clearly defined portrait of this determined but inflexible man.
Alfalfa Bill
Author | : Robert L. Dorman |
Publsiher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2018-10-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780806162201 |
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In this masterful biography, Robert L. Dorman traces the career of William H. “Alfalfa Bill” Murray from his hardscrabble childhood in post–Civil War Texas to his remarkable ascendancy as a nationally known political figure in the mid-twentieth century. The first comprehensive portrait of Murray to be published in fifty years, Alfalfa Bill is both the exploration of a larger-than-life personality and an illuminating account of the birth of political conservatism in Oklahoma. As Dorman reveals, no political label readily fit Murray. The core conservatism of his Texas years was caught up in the ferment of three major periods of American reform—the Populist uprising, the Progressive Era, and the New Deal. Over his long career, Murray strongly advocated for states’ rights, limited government, and strict constitutionalism, yet he was also a consistent foe of corporations and concentrated wealth. The society he sought was small-scale, decentralized, agrarian—and racially segregated. Although he claimed to represent high principles, Murray as a politician was an opportunist, loved a good fight, had a flair for the theatrical, and hungered for power. Dorman depicts Murray from his days as a political operative in the Chickasaw Nation to his leadership of the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention, and from the Speaker’s chair of the Oklahoma legislature to the halls of Congress. The book follows Murray’s quixotic attempt to found an agricultural colony in Bolivia, and chronicles his amazing Oklahoma comeback in the 1930 gubernatorial election. The final chapters detail Murray’s legendary term as state governor, his failed candidacy for president, and his emergence as a fierce critic of New Deal liberalism and racial desegregation. Unlike earlier biographies of Murray, Alfalfa Bill brings issues of race, class, and gender to the forefront, often in surprising ways. On the surface, the Murray saga was an American success story, yet his rise came at a price for Murray himself, his family, and the people of the state he helped to create. An indelible portrait emerges of an ambitious, domineering, relentless, and unapologetically racist figure whose tarnished legacy seems painfully relevant in America’s current political climate.
Alfalfa Bill Murray
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Author | : Keith L. Bryant |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0598207333 |
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Alfalfa Bill
Author | : Gordon Hines |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1932 |
Genre | : Governors |
ISBN | : UCAL:B4470806 |
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Biography of William Henry (Alfalfa Bill) Murray.
Alfalfa Bill Murray
Author | : Keith L. Bryant |
Publsiher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2016-02-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780806154381 |
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William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray is the most important figure in the political history of Oklahoma. No other individual contributed so greatly to the formation of its political institutions—and there was never a more colorful or controversial character on the state’s political scene. Flamboyant, unpredictable, and stubborn, Alfalfa Bill became a legend. President of the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention, speaker of the first House of Representatives, two-term congressman, and governor of Oklahoma, the Texas-born Murray made an indelible mark on his adopted state. But he also made enemies. During the struggle for statehood he waged a hard battle over the constitution, taking on President Theodore Roosevelt and Secretary of War William Howard Taft. As Oklahoma governor, Murray challenged the oil industry, newspaper interests, and the state of Texas. To enforce his programs, he relied on the National Guard. While governor, Murray called out the guard forty-seven times for duties ranging from policing ticket sales at University of Oklahoma football games, to patrolling oil fields, to guarding the Red River Bridge during the infamous Bridge War with Texas. In 1932 he ran for the Democratic nomination for president, and his fame spread across the nation. When candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt offered a program for national recovery, Murray countered with “Bread, Butter, Bacon, and Beans.” In describing Murray’s frustrated efforts to preserve the agricultural American of the nineteenth century, Bryant has written a perceptive biography presenting the first clearly defined portrait of this determined but inflexible man.
Memoirs of Governor Murray and True History of Oklahoma
Author | : William Henry Murray |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 866 |
Release | : 1945 |
Genre | : Oklahoma |
ISBN | : UOM:39015027812935 |
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Oklahoma a History of Five Centuries
Author | : Arrell Morgan Gibson |
Publsiher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806117583 |
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Located in the Oklahoma Collection.
The Speeches of William Henry Murray
Author | : William Henry Murray,A. L. Beckett |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1494055376 |
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This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.