David Myers | |
Birth Name: | David F. Myers |
State Senate: | Oklahoma |
District: | 20th |
Term Start: | 2002 |
Term End: | 2011 |
Predecessor: | Paul Muegge |
Successor: | Ann "AJ" Griffin |
Birth Date: | 18 July 1938 |
Birth Place: | Ponca City, Oklahoma |
Death Place: | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |
Nationality: | American |
Party: | Republican Party |
Spouse: | Sara |
Residence: | Ponca City, Oklahoma |
Alma Mater: | Oklahoma State University, B.S. chemical engineering Louisiana State University Darden School, University of Virginia |
Profession: | Chemical engineer, politician |
David F. Myers (July 18, 1938 - November 11, 2011) was a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. He was a member of the Oklahoma Senate, representing an electoral district that includes Alfalfa, Garfield, Grant, Kay, and Noble counties.
Myers retired from ConocoPhillips in Ponca City, where he worked as a chemical engineer in the oil refining industry for 33 years. Until his death, he worked as an independent consultant for the oil industry.[1]
Myers was elected to the Oklahoma Senate on November 5, 2002, beating both Democratic Party candidate Tom Leonard and independent candidate Den Coates. Myers received 11,010 votes.[2]
Myers was among the supporters of a tort reform bill in 2007.[3] He was the 2008 author of a bill to expand a smoking ban to all public places.[4]
Myers first served as the vice chair of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee before serving as chair of the committee in 2011.[5] He died of pneumonia on November 11, 2011.[6]