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James Howard Edmondson (September 27, 1925 – November 17, 1971) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. He served as the 16th governor of Oklahoma from 1959 to 1963, and the appointed United States Senator from Oklahoma from 1963 to 1964, losing to Fred R. Harris in a 1964 Democratic primary election for the U.S. Senate.
edmondson, james howard (1925–1971). Oklahoma's sixteenth governor was born on September 27, 1925, in Muskogee, Oklahoma, to Edmond Augustus and Esther Pullen Edmondson. The elder Edmondson instilled a love of politics in both J. Howard and his older brother, Ed, a long-term congressman.
Edmondson overwhelmingly defeated him in the Democratic primaries and went on to carry each of Oklahoma's seventy-seven counties in a record victory in the general election. At the age of thirty-three, Edmondson thus became Oklahoma's youngest chief executive to that time and one of the youngest ever to govern an American commonwealth.
18 de nov. de 1971 · OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 17 (AP)—J. Howard Edmondson, who at the age of 33 became the youngest Governor in Okla homa's history and the young est in the country, died today of a heart attack at...
4 de mar. de 2022 · Riding the tide of telegenic young political stars spearheaded by successful Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy, Edmondson presented one of the most audacious reform programs ever rolled out by an Oklahoma governor.
In his four years as Governor, Edmondson managed to become about as unpopular a chief executive as Oklahoma ever had. On taking office, he kept his campaign promise to end Oklahoma’s...
James Edmondson At age thirty-three, J. Howard Edmondson became the youngest Governor in the history of Oklahoma. Born in Muskogee on September 27, 1925, Edmondson graduated from Muskogee High School then enrolled in the University of Oklahoma. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in March 1942, serving until December 5, 1945. Edmondson
