"The senator s own account of his service to Oklahoma and the nation through depression and war"

Elmer Thomas (18761965) represented the people of Oklahoma in the state s first legislature and in Congress. This memoir, written shortly after he left the U.S. Senate in 1951 but never before published, chronicles his long career and offers a wealth of information on people and events that helped shape the development of the state and the course of American history.

Thomas became one of Oklahoma s first state senators in 1907 and was involved with financing the construction of public...