- Source: Oklahoma Hall of Fame
The Oklahoma Hall of Fame was founded in 1927 by Anna B. Korn to officially celebrate Statehood Day, recognize Oklahomans dedicated to their communities, and provide educational programming for all ages. The first Oklahoma Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony was held the next year, inducting the first two members into the hall of fame. In the 1970s, the Hefner Mansion was donated to the association to house the exhibits and busts or portraits of the inductees, and the organization changed its name to the Oklahoma Heritage Association in 1971. It then moved into the former Mid-Continent Life Insurance building in Oklahoma City in 2007 and opened the Gaylord-Pickens Museum with interactive exhibits. In 2015, the organization changed its name for the final time to the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, in order to better represent the goals and mission of the organization.
To be eligible for induction, an individual must satisfy the following criteria:
Reside in Oklahoma or be a former resident of the state.
Have performed outstanding service to humanity, the State of Oklahoma and the United States.
Be known for their public service throughout the state.
In 2000, the rules were changed to allow for posthumous nominations.
Portraits of the inductees can be seen at the Gaylord-Pickens Museum in Oklahoma City. As of 2020, 714 members have been inducted since 1928, with more inducted annually.
Notable inductees
= 1920s
=1928
Dennis Thomas Flynn (U.S. congressman), representative for Oklahoma Territory's at-large congressional district (1893–1897)
Elizabeth Fulton Hester (civic leader)
1929
James S. Buchanan (educator), 4th president of the University of Oklahoma (1924–1925)
Charles Francis Colcord (oilman)
Alice Mary Robertson (U.S. congressman), representative for Oklahoma's 2nd congressional district (1921–1923)
Richard A. Sneed (military), Confederate Army veteran and Oklahoma Secretary of State (1923–1927; 1931–1935) and Oklahoma State Treasurer (1927–1931)
= 1930s
=1930
David Ross Boyd (educator), 1st president of the University of Oklahoma (1892–1908)
Alice Brown Davis (Seminole chief), chief of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma 1922–1935
Edward K. Gaylord (publisher)
Annette Ross Hume (civic leader)
John Graves Leeper (public servant)
Frank Phillips (oilman)
Joseph W. Scroggs (educator)
1931
Charles F. Barrett (military)
Laura A. Clubb (philanthropist)
Gregory Gerrer (artist/religious leader)
Roy V. Hoffman (military)
Douglas H. Johnston (Chickasaw governor)
Ernest W. Marland (governor)
Benjamin Nihart (educator)
Joseph B. Thoburn (historian)
1932 (25th anniversary of Oklahoma)
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937 (30th anniversary of Oklahoma)
1938
1939
= 1940s
=1940
1941
Ella Lamb Classen (civic leader)
Julien Charles Monnet (educator)
Robert L. Owen (U.S. senator)
William Mark Sexson (religious leader)
Edgar Sullins Vaught (jurist)
1942
Stanley Vestal (historian)
Houston B. Teehee (public servant)
Lewis Haines Wentz (oilman)
1943
Gladys Anderson Emerson (educator)
O.C. Newman (physician)
Waite Phillips (oilman)
Janie Stewart (educator)
1944
John R. Abernathy (religious leader)
Kenneth C. Kaufman (author/educator)
Burton Rascoe (author)
Paul Sears (botanist)
1945
Joseph P. Blickensderfer (educator)
Roy Gittinger (historian)
Raymond S. McLain (military)
Paul A. Walker (educator)
1946
Robert Burns (public servant)
Frances Dinsmore Davis (fine arts instructor)
Charles Evans (educator)
Mark R. Everett (physician)
1947 (40th anniversary of Oklahoma)
William Green Beasley (religious leader)
Yvonne Chouteau (ballerina)
Daniel Luther Edwards (religious leader)
John Elmer Mabee (oilman)
1948
Roy Temple House (literature)
Mattie O. Watts Kimes (artist)
Fred Lookout (Osage chief)
Edward H. Moore (oilman)
Lynn Riggs (playwright)
1949
Nina Kay Gore (civic leader)
Robert A. Hefner (oilman)
Oscar Jacobson (artist/educator)
Irene Bowers Sells (journalist)
Poe B. Vandament (publisher)
= 1950s
=1950
Angie Debo (historian)
Norris G. Henthorne (journalist)
Jay G. Puterbaugh (entrepreneur)
Waldo E. Stephens (internationalist)
Jim Thorpe (Olympian)
Louis A. Turley (medicine)
1951
Joseph Horace Benton (opera singer)
Eugene S. Briggs (educator)
George Lynn Cross (educator)
Luther Harrison (journalist)
Ernest Lachman (physician)
Perle Mesta (civic leader)
William H. Murray (governor)
C. I. Pontius (educator)
1952
George Lynn Bowman (public servant)
Joseph J. Clark (military)
Everette Lee DeGolyer (geologist)
Thomas Gilcrease (oilman)
J. Raymond Hinshaw Jr. (physician)
Richard Lloyd Jones (publisher)
Savoie Lottinville (author)
1953
C.B. Bee (public servant)
James E. Berry (public servant)
William J. Holloway (governor)
Roy Johnson (oilman)
James C. Nance (public servant)
Pearl M. Sayre (civic leader)
Nan Sheets (artist)
Gomer Griffith Smith (U.S. congressman)
1954
Felix M. Adams (physician)
J.R. Hinshaw (physician)
Louise Davis McMahon (music)
Maud Lorton Myers (civic leader)
John L. Peters (humanitarian)
Theodore 'T.H.' Henry Steffens (humanitarian)
1955
Annetta A. Childs (civic leader)
F. Hiner Dale (public servant/jurist)
Paul Harvey (radio commentator)
Gaston Litton (historian)
James Cash Penney (business executive)
Ross Rizley (U.S. congressman)
1956
Charles Blake Goddard (oilman)
Robert S. Kerr (governor)
Jesse Lee Rader (historian/librarian)
Robert Terry Stuart Sr. (insurance)
Nora Amaryllis Talbot (educator)
1957 (50th anniversary of Oklahoma)
Carl Albert (speaker of the House)
Robert H. Bayley (physician)
Stanley Carlisle Draper (civic leader)
Te Ata (historian/storyteller)
Erle P. Halliburton (oilman)
Roy Harris (music composer)
James A. Rinehart (attorney/public servant)
Anna T. Scruggs (mental health)
Roy J. Turner (governor)
1958
Boots Adams (oilman)
Willis Maxson Chambers (educator)
Alice Marriott (historian)
Dean Anderson McGee (oilman)
Lucile Page (civic leader)
John Wesley Raley (educator)
Oliver S. Willham (educator)
1959
C.R. Anthony (entrepreneur)
Della Duncan Brown (civic leader)
Harold Harvey Herbert (educator)
H.C. Jones (entrepreneur)
Alfred P. Murrah (jurist)
Bess Truitt (poet laureate)
Natalie Overall Warren (civic leader)
Mac Q. Williamson (public servant)
= 1960s
=1960
Stephen Sanders Chandler Jr. (jurist)
Ruth Wilson Hurley (civic leader)
Richard Kelvin Lane (business executive)
Joe C. Scott (educator/rancher)
Ned Shepler (publisher)
Joseph Richard Taylor (artist)
1961
Virgil Browne (entrepreneur)
Anna Lee Brosius Korn (founder/civic leader)
Joseph White McBride (publisher)
Mike Monroney (U.S. senator)
John Rogers (attorney)
Fred Earl Tarman (publisher)
William K. Warren Sr. (oilman)
1962
Jennie Dahlgren (public servant)
J. Howard Edmondson (public servant)
John Elson Kirkpatrick (philanthropist)
J.B. Perky (vocational agriculture)
William Angie Smith (religious leader)
1963
W.P. Atkinson (publisher/civic leader)
Orel Busby (jurist)
Gordon Cooper (aerospace)
Ben Graf Henneke (educator)
Herschel Hobbs (religious leader)
Carol Daube Sutton (civic leader)
Bud Wilkinson (coach)
1964
Merle Newby Buttram (civic leader)
Harvey Pettit Everest (entrepreneur)
Van Heflin (actor)
Mickey Mantle (baseball)
Tessie Mobley (opera singer)
Clarence H. Wright (business executive)
1965
Page Belcher (U.S. congressman)
T. Jack Foster (real estate)
Henry Iba (coach)
Jacob Johnson (educator)
Fred Jones (entrepreneur)
Mabelle Kennedy (civic leader)
1966
Anita Bryant (entertainer)
W. W. Keeler (oilman)
Donald S. Kennedy (business executive)
Edwin W. Parker (religious leader)
William Thomas Payne (oilman)
Lloyd E. Rader Sr. (public servant)
1967
Henry Bass (business executive)
Leta McFarlin Chapman (civic leader)
Hicks Epton (attorney)
Malcom E. Phelps (physician)
Harve Milt Phillips (publisher)
George Miksch Sutton (ornithologist)
James E. Webb (NASA administrator)
Raymond A. Young (entrepreneur)
= 2020s
=2020
Calvin J. Anthony (retired)
Gary Batton (chief, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)
Martha Burger (civic leader)
Charles Dennis 'Denny' Cresap (retired)
Terry Stuart Forst (general manager, Stuart Family Ranch)
Stephen M. Prescott (physician-scientist)
Francis Rooney (former chief executive officer, Manhattan Construction, Inc.)
John W. Smith (head coach, Oklahoma State University wrestling program)
2021
Roscoe Dunjee (publisher)
Stanley L. Evans (assistant dean, University of Oklahoma College of Law)
Scott Hendricks (record producer)
Hannibal B. Johnson (author/attorney/consultant)
Yvonne Kauger (justice)
Paula A. Marshall (CEO of a food manufacturing facility)
Harvey Pratt (law enforcement/artist)
Jim Stovall (entrepreneur/author)
2022
Sue Ann Arnall (attorney)
Bob Blackburn (historian/author)
Chet Cadieux (chairman & CEO of QuikTrip Corporation)
Patty Gasso (head softball coach, University of Oklahoma)
F. Roger Hardesty (entrepreneur)
Joy Harjo (writer/musician)
Pamela McCauley (engineer/educator)
Leon Russell (musician/songwriter)
2023
Dwight E. Adams (FBI special agent/educator)
John Barrett Jr. (chairman of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation)
Judith A. James (physician/scientist)
Bill Lance (secretary of state for the Chickasaw Nation)
J Mays (industrial and automotive designer)
Madeline Manning (Olympian/speaker/singer)
Barry Pollard (neurosurgeon)
Mary Golda Ross (engineer)
2024
Anita Golden Arnold (historian/author)
Greg Burns (visual artist)
Benton C. Clark III (space scientist)
Anne Morris Greenwood (philanthropist)
Drew Edmondson (attorney)
Tim DuBois (songwriter, music executive)
Amber Valletta (model, actress, entrepreneur, activist)
References
External links
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- Oklahoma Hall of Fame
- Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame
- National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum
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