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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Alice M. Robertson |
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Muskogee, Oklahoma , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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January 02, 1854
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| Died | July 01, 1931
(77 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | ROBERTSON, Alice Mary, a Representative from Oklahoma; born at Tullahassee Mission, Creek Nation, Indian Territory (now Tullahassee, Okla.), January 2, 1854; self-taught in early life under the supervision of missionary parents; attended Elmira College, Elmira, N.Y.; clerk in the Indian Office, Washington, D.C., 1873-1879; returned to Indian Territory and taught in the school at Tullahassee and later in the Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1880-1882; again returned to Indian Territory and established Nuyaka Mission; engaged in teaching at Okmulgee, Okla., and had charge of a boarding school for Indian girls, which developed into Henry Kendall College (now the University of Tulsa); Government supervisor of Creek Indian schools 1900-1905; postmaster of Muskogee, Okla., 1905-1913; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; appointed by President Harding a welfare worker at Veterans’ Hospital No. 90 at Muskogee in May 1923; died in Muskogee, Okla., on July 1, 1931; interment in Greenhill Cemetery.
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