| 21st Oklahoma Legislature | |
| Coa Pic: | File:Flag of Oklahoma (1941–1988).svg |
| Leader1 Type: | President of the Senate |
| Leader1: | James E. Berry (D) |
| Leader2 Type: | President Pro Tem of the Senate |
| Leader2: | James C. Nance (D) |
| Leader3 Type: | Speaker of the House |
| Leader3: | C. R. Board (D) |
| Leader5 Type: | Composition: |
| Leader5: | Senate 38 6 House 95 22 |
The Twenty-first Oklahoma Legislature was a meeting of the legislative branch of the government of Oklahoma, composed of the Oklahoma Senate and the Oklahoma House of Representatives. The state legislature met in regular session from January 7 to May 8, 1947,[1] during the term of Governor Roy J. Turner. The session was marked by a gunfight on the Senate floor, in which a state representative shot Tom Anglin, a state senator and former Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, in the hip, on May 7, 1947.[2]
James C. Nance served as President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate and C. R. Board served as Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.
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| Affiliation | Party (Shading indicates majority caucus) | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Republican | ||||||
| nowrap style="font-size:80%" | 38 | 6 | 44 | ||||
| Voting share | 86.4% | 13.6% | |||||
| Affiliation | Party (Shading indicates majority caucus) | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Republican | ||||||
| nowrap style="font-size:80%" | 95 | 22 | 117 | ||||
| Voting share | 81.2% | 18.8% | |||||
James C. Nance served as President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate.[3]
C. R. Board served as Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives and Claud Thompson served as Speaker Pro Tempore.[1] R. Rhys Evans served as the House Majority Floor Leader.[1] Bob Barr served as the Chief Clerk of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.[1]
| District | Name | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dwight Leonard | Dem | |
| 2 | A. E. Anderson | Dem | |
| 2 | Orval Grim | Dem | |
| 3 | Claude Seaman | Rep | |
| 4 | Henry W. Worthington | Dem | |
| 5 | Burr Speck | Dem | |
| 6 | L.E. Wheeler | Dem | |
| 6 | Byron Dacus | Dem | |
| 7 | Bill Ginder | Rep | |
| 8 | Floyd Carrier | Rep | |
| 9 | Perry Howell | Rep | |
| 10 | Sherman Trussel | Rep | |
| 11 | Everett Collins | Dem | |
| 12 | Louis Ritzhaupt | Dem | |
| 13 | Mead Norton | Dem | |
| 13 | Boyd Cowden | Dem | |
| 14 | Jim A. Rinehart | Dem | |
| 14 | Robert Burns | Dem | |
| 15 | Tom Jelks | Dem | |
| 15 | Theodore Pruett | Dem | |
| 16 | E. B. Grennell | Rep | |
| 17 | Phil Lowery | Dem | |
| 17 | Bill Logan | Dem | |
| 18 | Fred Chapman | Dem | |
| 19 | Dem | ||
| 19 | Homer Paul | Dem | |
| 20 | Bayless Irby | Dem | |
| 21 | J. Gladstone Emery | Dem | |
| 22 | Tom Anglin | Dem | |
| 23 | Virgil Medlock | Dem | |
| 24 | Thomas Finney | Dem | |
| 25 | M. O. Counts | Dem | |
| 26 | Dem | ||
| 27 | Will Rogers | Dem | |
| 27 | Roy White | Dem | |
| 28 | Ray Fine | Dem | |
| 29 | W. T. Gooldy | Dem | |
| 30 | Perry Porter | Dem | |
| 31 | Arthur Price | Rep | |
| 32 | James Nevins | Dem | |
| 33 | W. A. Waller | Dem | |
| 34 | Frank Mahan | Dem | |
| 35 | H. D. Binns | Dem | |
| 36 | Joe Bailey Cobb | Dem |
| Name | Party | County | |
|---|---|---|---|
| W. H. Langley | Adair | ||
| W. E. Cordray | Alfalfa | ||
| Harold Toaz | Dem | Atoka | |
| W. T. Quinn | Rep | Beaver | |
| H. C. Hathcoat | Dem | Beckham | |
| Jack Dillon | Rep | Blaine | |
| Dem | Bryan | ||
| Clark White | Dem | Bryan | |
| Don Baldwin | Dem | Caddo | |
| Walter Morris | Dem | Caddo | |
| Jean Pazoureck | Dem | Canadian | |
| R. Rhys Evans | Dem | Carter | |
| Wilson Wallace | Dem | Carter | |
| S. Richard Smith | Dem | Cherokee | |
| Hal Welch | Dem | Choctaw | |
| C. R. Board | Dem | Cimarron | |
| Joe Smalley | Dem | Cleveland | |
| Owen Summers | Dem | Coal | |
| Charles Ozmun | Dem | Comanche | |
| Dick Riggs | Dem | Comanche | |
| G. G. Upchurch | Dem | Cotton | |
| W. Walter Bailey | Dem | Craig | |
| Lou Stockton Allard | Dem | Creek | |
| Streeter Speakman | Dem | Creek | |
| William Shibley | Dem | Creek | |
| William Dunn | Dem | Custer | |
| Mattison Sparkman | Dem | Delaware | |
| Jim Kouns | Dem | Dewey | |
| A. R. Larason | Dem | Ellis | |
| John Camp | Rep | Garfield | |
| Martin Garber | Rep | Garfield | |
| Easter Brown | Dem | Garvin | |
| Ike Tolbert | Dem | Garvin | |
| C. C. Chastain | Dem | Grady | |
| A. E. Hennings | Dem | Grady | |
| J. C. Hoffsommer | Rep | Grant | |
| Wade Shumate | Dem | Greer | |
| Wilburn Medaris | Dem | Harmon | |
| C. F. Miles | Dem | Harper | |
| D. C. Cantrell | Dem | Haskell | |
| Paul Ballinger | Dem | Hughes | |
| Jimie Scott | Dem | Hughes | |
| Guy Horton | Dem | Jackson | |
| D. L. Jones | Dem | Jackson | |
| Jack Coleman | Dem | Jefferson | |
| Marvin Brannon | Dem | Johnston | |
| C. B. McCLean | Rep | Kay | |
| James McNeese | Rep | Kay | |
| W. A. Burton Jr. | Dem | Kingfisher | |
| Ralph Farrar | Dem | Kiowa | |
| E. T. Dunlap | Dem | Latimer | |
| Dual Autry | Dem | LeFlore | |
| Edd C. Hawthorne | Dem | LeFlore | |
| C. L. Mills | Rep | Lincoln | |
| Lloyd McGuire | Rep | Logan | |
| Joe Thompson | Dem | Love | |
| Sam Alexander | Rep | Major | |
| Roy Biles | Dem | Marshall | |
| Gus Bethell | Dem | Mayes | |
| Purman Wilson | Dem | McClain | |
| James Dyer | Dem | McCurtain | |
| Paul Harkey | Dem | McCurtain | |
| Clinton White | Dem | McIntosh | |
| Jack Barron | Dem | Murray | |
| Carl Frix | Dem | Muskogee | |
| H. P. Watkins | Dem | Muskogee | |
| David Wood | Dem | Muskogee | |
| Rep | Noble | ||
| James Staten | Dem | Nowata | |
| Dwight Tolle | Dem | Okfuskee | |
| Dwain Box | Dem | Oklahoma | |
| Harold Carey | Dem | Oklahoma | |
| Ben Gullett | Dem | Oklahoma | |
| Dem | Oklahoma | ||
| B. B. Kerr | Dem | Oklahoma | |
| J. D. McCarty | Dem | Oklahoma | |
| Paul Washington | Dem | Oklahoma | |
| Dem | Okmulgee | ||
| Bill Shipley | Dem | Okmulgee | |
| B. L. Williams | Dem | Okmulgee | |
| Charles Bacon | Dem | Osage | |
| Bill Burkhart | Dem | Osage | |
| Grace Mitchelson | Dem | Ottawa | |
| Dem | Ottawa | ||
| Jo Ferguson | Rep | Pawnee | |
| J. H. Arrington | Dem | Payne | |
| Lonnie Brown | Dem | Pittsburg | |
| C. Plowboy Edwards | Dem | Pittsburg | |
| Garland Jordan | Dem | Pittsburg | |
| Thomas Holt | Dem | Pontotoc | |
| H. P. Sugg | Dem | Pontotoc | |
| James Densford | Dem | Pottawatomie | |
| John Levergood | Dem | Pottawatomie | |
| William Tiffany | Dem | Pottawatomie | |
| Claud Thompson | Dem | Pushmataha | |
| S. S. McColgin | Dem | Roger Mills | |
| E. W. Meads | Dem | Rogers | |
| Walter Billingsley | Dem | Seminole | |
| N. Blaylock | Dem | Seminole | |
| Con Long | Dem | Seminole | |
| Owen Taylor | Dem | Sequoyah | |
| James Bullard | Dem | Stephens | |
| D. A. Segrest | Dem | Stephens | |
| Leon B. Field | Dem | Texas | |
| E. H. Shelton | Dem | Tillman | |
| Robert Alexander | Rep | Tulsa | |
| George Campbell | Rep | Tulsa | |
| Joe Harshbarger | Rep | Tulsa | |
| Richard McDermott | Rep | Tulsa | |
| Joe Musgrave | Rep | Tulsa | |
| C. R. Nixon | Rep | Tulsa | |
| A. E. Williams | Rep | Tulsa | |
| John T. Waggoner | Dem | Wagoner | |
| Laton Doty | Rep | Washington | |
| A. R. Ash | Dem | Washita | |
| Ben Easterly | Dem | Woods | |
| Clarence Meigs | Rep | Woodward |