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Military personnel from Oklahoma

  • Stand WatieStand Watie was born on the 12th of December 1806 at Oothcaloga in the Cherokee Nation. His father Uwatie held African-American slaves as laborers and became…
  • Thomas P. StaffordThomas Patten Stafford was born on the 17th of September 1930, in Weatherford, Oklahoma. His father worked as a dentist and his mother had been a teacher…
  • Jim ThorpeJames Francis Thorpe was born in Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, between May 22 and May 28 of 1887. No birth certificate exists to confirm the exact date or…