Home About Chat Users Issues Party Candidates Polling Firms Media News Polls Calendar Key Races United States President Senate House Governors International

New User Account
"A comprehensive, collaborative elections resource." 
Email: Password:

  Bassett, Mabel L.
CANDIDATE DETAILS
AffiliationDemocratic  
 
NameMabel L. Bassett
Address
Sapulpa, Oklahoma , United States
EmailNone
WebsiteNone
Born August 16, 1875
DiedAugust 02, 1953 (77 years)
ContributorChronicler
Last ModifedDavid
Apr 30, 2020 05:55pm
Tags
InfoMrs. Mabel Bourne Bassett served as Oklahoma's third commissioner of charities and corrections for six consecutive terms (1923-47). Born in Chicago, Illinois, on August 16, 1876, Mabel was the only child of Stephen Bourne, merchant and Civil War veteran, and Martha Ellen Bourne, suffragist and one of the first women in the country to edit a newspaper. Mabel graduated from the Missouri School of Social Economy in St. Louis and married Joseph Bassett, a railroad conductor. The couple had three children. In 1902 the Bassetts moved to Sapulpa, Indian Territory, and by 1910 Mabel had organized one of the state's first humane organizations, the Creek County Humane Society.

As commissioner, Bassett worked to promote fair living conditions and opportunities for the state's inmates. Notable advances included bills requesting a new building for woman prisoners at McAlester and the removal of delinquent African American boys from the penitentiary to a more suitable home in Boley. She ran on the Democratic ticket for Congress in 1932 but was defeated by a Moore schoolteacher named Will Rogers. After losing the office of commissioner to Buck Cook, she retired. When Mabel Bassett died in 1953, acting Gov. James E. Berry ordered that her body lie in state at the State Capitol Blue Room so the public could mourn her passing.

[Link]

JOB APPROVAL POLLS

BOOKS
Title Purchase Contributor

EVENTS
Start Date End Date Type Title Contributor

NEWS
Date Category Headline Article Contributor

DISCUSSION
Importance? 0.00000 Average

FAMILY

INFORMATION LINKS
RACES
  07/25/1950 OK Commissioner of Charities and Corrections - D Runoff Lost 37.62% (-24.76%)
  07/04/1950 OK Commissioner of Charities and Corrections - D Primary Won 41.67% (+0.00%)
  07/23/1946 OK Commissioner of Charities and Corrections - D Runoff Lost 45.52% (-8.97%)
  07/02/1946 OK Commissioner of Charities and Corrections - D Primary Won 43.07% (+31.15%)
  11/03/1942 OK Commissioner of Charities and Corrections Won 55.81% (+12.40%)
  07/09/1940 OK District 4 - D Primary Lost 21.43% (-46.48%)
  11/08/1938 OK Commissioner of Charities and Corrections Won 65.94% (+32.75%)
  07/12/1938 OK Commissioner of Charities and Corrections - D Primary Won 38.42% (+10.40%)
  11/06/1934 OK Commissioner of Charities and Corrections Won 66.22% (+35.08%)
  07/26/1932 OK - District At Large - D Runoff Lost 34.15% (-31.70%)
  07/05/1932 OK - District At Large - D Primary Won 15.28% (+0.00%)
  11/04/1930 OK Commissioner of Charities and Corrections Won 66.65% (+33.30%)
  11/02/1926 OK Commissioner of Charities and Corrections Won 58.18% (+17.09%)
  11/07/1922 OK Commissioner of Charities and Corrections Won 61.62% (+24.47%)
ENDORSEMENTS