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THOMAS P. GORE

     Thomas P. Gore A Senator from Oklahoma; born near Embry, Webster County, MS, December 10, 1870; by accident lost the sight of both eyes as a boy; attended the public schools; graduated from the normal school at Walthall, MS in 1890; taught school in 1890 and 1891; graduated from the Law Department of Cumberland University, Lebanon, TN, in 1892; was admitted to the bar in 1892 and commenced practice in Walthall, MS; moved to Corsicana, TX, in 1895; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1898 to the Fifty-sixth Congress; moved to Lawton, OK, in 1901 and continued the practice of law; member Oklahoma Territorial Council, 1903-1905; upon the admission of OK as a State into the Union was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate for the term ending March 3, 1909; reelected in 1908 and again in 1914, and served from December 11, 1907 to March 3, 1921; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1920; Chairman, Committee on Railroads (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Agriculture and Forestry (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice (Sixty-sixth Congress); member of the Democratic National Committee, 1912-1916; appointed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1913 as a member of the Commission to Investigate and Study Rural Credits and Agricultural Cooperative Organizations in European Countries; again elected to the United States Senate in 1930, and served from March 4, 1931 to January 3, 1937; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936; Chairman, Committee on Interoceanic Canals (Seventy-third and Seventy-fourth Congresses); practiced law in Washington, D.C. until his death on March 16, 1949. [Photo: Thomas Pryor Gore Collection, Carl Albert Center, University of Oklahoma]