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  Rizley, Roscoe "Ross"
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  2021-01-01  
 
NameRoscoe "Ross" Rizley
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Guymon, Oklahoma , United States
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Born July 05, 1892
DiedMarch 04, 1969 (76 years)
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Infoa Representative from Oklahoma; born on a farm near Beaver, Okla., July 5, 1892; attended the public schools; taught in the rural schools of Beaver County, Okla., in 1909 and 1910; served as a deputy register of deeds of Beaver County, Okla., in 1911 and 1912; was graduated from the law department of the University of Kansas City, Kansas City, Mo., in 1915; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Beaver, Okla.; elected county attorney of Beaver County in 1918 and served until 1920, when he resigned and moved to Guymon, Texas County, Okla., and resumed the practice of law; member of the Guymon Board of Education 1924-1932; city attorney of Guymon 1928-1938; member of the State senate 1931-1934; unsuccessful candidate for election as Governor of Oklahoma in 1938; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1949); chairman, Special Committee on Campaign Expenditures (Eightieth Congress); delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1932, 1936, and 1948; was not a candidate for renomination in 1948 but was unsuccessful for election to the United States Senate; solicitor for the Post Office Department, Washington, D.C., from March to December 1953; Assistant Secretary of Agriculture from December 1953 until his resignation December 16, 1954; member of the Civil Aeronautics Board from February 25, 1955, until April 15, 1956, when he resigned; judge of the United States District Court for the western district of Oklahoma from 1956 until his death in Oklahoma City, Okla., March 4, 1969; interment in Elmhurst Cemetery, Guymon, Okla.

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Son Robert S. Rizley 1923-2006

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RACES
  11/02/1948 OK US Senate Lost 37.40% (-24.89%)
  07/06/1948 OK US Senate - R Primary Won 68.42% (+60.51%)
  11/05/1946 OK District 08 Won 54.79% (+9.58%)
  07/02/1946 OK District 8 - R Primary Won 77.19% (+54.39%)
  11/07/1944 OK District 08 Won 57.56% (+15.93%)
  11/03/1942 OK District 08 Won 60.31% (+21.25%)
  11/05/1940 OK District 08 Won 53.83% (+8.08%)
  07/09/1940 OK District 08 - R Primary Won 52.64% (+12.76%)
  11/08/1938 OK Governor Lost 29.31% (-40.73%)
  07/12/1938 OK Governor - R Primary Won 46.05% (+16.63%)
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