Tom D. McKeown

Thomas Deitz "Tom" McKeown ( born June 4, 1878 in Blackstock, Chester County, South Carolina, † October 22, 1951 in Ada, Oklahoma ) was an American politician. Between 1917 and 1921, and from 1923 to 1935, he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas McKeown attended the public schools of his home and enjoyed time as well as private lessons. Thereafter he attended until 1898 lectures at Cornell University in Ithaca (New York). After studying law and his 1898 was admitted to the bar he began in Malvern (Arkansas ) to work in his new profession. In 1901, McKeown moved to Ada in the Indian Territory, which later became part of the State of Oklahoma. In his new home, he worked as a lawyer. In 1909, he became president of the local Bar Association. Between 1910 and 1916 McKeown judge was in various judicial districts of Oklahoma.

Politically McKeown was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1917 he was in the fourth district of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he replaced William H. Murray on March 4, 1917. After a re-election in 1918 he was initially able to exercise up to the March 3, 1923 from his position in Congress. In the elections of 1920 he was defeated by Republican Joseph C. Pringey. Two years later succeeded McKeown to regain his seat in Congress. After he won the next five elections, he was able to complete in 1935 six contiguous parliamentary terms in Congress between 4 March 1923 and January 3. For the elections of 1934 he was not nominated by his party.

After the end of his time in Congress McKeown moved to Chicago, where he worked as a lawyer. In 1937 he returned to Ada, where he was active both in agriculture and in the oil business. In 1942 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Oklahoma. Between April 1946 and January 1947 McKeown served as district attorney in Pontotoc County. Then he was up to his death in 1951, District Judge.