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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | George P. Nigh |
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma , United States |
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June 09, 1927
(96 years)
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| Contributor | User 490 |
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| Info | George Patterson Nigh, Democrat. Served from 1979 to 1987. Nigh was born in McAlester, Oklahoma June 9, 1927. He attended public schools in McAlester and Eastern Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College at Wilburton, Oklahoma. From June 1945 through September 1946, he served in the U.S. Navy. He was granted a Bachelor of Arts degree from East Central State College, Ada, Oklahoma in 1950. From 1952 to 1958, he taught at McAlester High School. Nigh served in the House of Representatives from the Twenty-third through the Twenty-sixth Oklahoma Legislatures. He was elected Lieutenant Governor, the youngest in the State's history, in 1958. In 1963, Nigh became the 17th Governor of Oklahoma, filling an unexpired 9-day term following the resignation of Gov. J. Howard Edmondson. He was elected Lieutenant Governor again in 1966, 1970 and 1974. He was elected governor November 7, 1978, and was sworn in January 3, 1979. Nigh became the 22nd Governor of Oklahoma, serving five days to fill an unexpired term following the resignation of Governor David Boren. He began his regular term as 22nd Governor of Oklahoma January 8, 1979, having been elected in fall of 1978, and was re-elected in 1982. Nigh was most recently president of the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, a position from which he retired in 1997. Please note: George Nigh also served from January 6 until January 14, 1963 (Record Group 8-P1-1), when Henry Bellmon resumed office.
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