Oklahoma Corporation Commission

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University of Oklahoma professor. Correspondence (1913-1930) from the Oklahoma Bureau of Geology regarding its publications and operations, and the geological and mineral characteristics of Oklahoma counties; geological reports (1913-1930) with accompanying maps; oil well logs (1905-1925), organized by county; and registers of student grades (1915-1951) maintained by Dr. Williams while a member of the University of Oklahoma faculty.

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Correspondence (1905-1937) to and from Russell regarding the Oklahoma Corporation Commission of which he was a member; political posters (ca. 1920-1930) from Russell's election campaigns for the Corporation Commission and to Congress; speeches (ca. 1920-1930); by-laws and the certificate of incorporation (1933) for the Self-Help Exchange, a Depression-era unemployed persons league; and publications (1919-1936), including newspapers (1919-1925) printed by Russell for propaganda purposes, and transcripts (n.d.) of Oklahoma State Supreme Court proceedings.

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Governor of Oklahoma, 1923. Personal and official correspondence (1916-1948) regarding Walton's gubernatorial campaign, his term as governor, his impeachment, and his campaign against the Oklahoma Ku Klux Klan; election campaign literature and paraphernalia (1919-1938); speeches (1922-1938); newspaper clippings (1919-1943); transcripts (1823) of legal testimony from numerous military trials in Oklahoma concerning racist and other Klan-sponsored incidents, and from Walton's impeachment trials; and publications (1923-1924) regarding the Klan, politics and government, etc.

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State regulatory agency. Copies of monthly reports from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, including Oklahoma Allocated Pools Allotment Reports (1945-1948), Daily Allocation Reports (1946-1947), Pipie Line Runs (1946-1947), Notifications of Intentions to Drill (1946-1947), and Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells (1946-1947); and copies of monthly reports (1934-1937) on the Oklahoma labor market, from the Oklahoma Labor Department.

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Lawyer. Correspondence and publications of the American Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma; court records; testimony; transcripts; prisoners' petitions; and prison records, all relating to Jones' service as General Counsel to the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma and his successful representation of Bobby Battle in the case, Battle vs. Park Anderson. Materials relating to Jones' campaign for Oklahoma State Attorney General, and U.S. Congress. Investigative materials pertaining to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, and the Penn Square Bank. Court dockets and related materials concerning Roger Dale Stafford and the Lorenz and Sirloin Stockade murders.