Volume 12 , Issue 38

This Day In History - Oklahoma

Taking a trip down the roads of Oklahoma history takes us to September 21, 2010 Distinctly Oklahoma Moments, concerning Robert Samuel Kerr, born in the Chickasaw Indian Territory, Oklahoma, near the present town of Ada, September 11, 1896.

Robert attended public schools; taught school; graduated fromEast Central Normal School, Ada, Oklahoma, in 1911. He studied law at the University of Oklahoma. During the First World War. Kerr served as a second lieutenant with the First Field Artillery.

Kerr went on to be a drilling contractor and oil producer; chairman of the board of Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc., and was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1948. Kerr was reelected in 1954, and again in 1960, and served from January 3, 1949, until his death in Washington, D.C., January 1, 1963.

Robert S. Kerr was chairman, SElect Committee on National Water Resources (eighty-sixth Congress); Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences (eighty-seventh congress); interment in Rose Hill Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and subsequently at the Kerr family homestead near Ada, Oklahoma. This NW Okie has some political photographs of Senator Robert S. Kerr and other Democrats.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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