Abraham Jefferson Seay

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Abraham Jefferson Seay

Abraham Jefferson Seay (born November 28, 1832 in Amherst , Amherst County , Virginia , †  December 12, 1915 in Long Beach , California ) was an American judge and governor of Oklahoma .

Life

AJ Seay was the eldest son of Cam and Lucy J. Seay. The family moved to Missouri in 1836 , where Seay attended public schools and later the Steelville Academy. His first job was pick and shovel building the Missouri Pacific Railroad . He later taught in schools and studied law and law books.

In 1861 Seay took part in the Civil War and fought for the Army of the Northern States . There he was a colonel at the end of the war and then joined the Republican Party . In gratitude for his apparently loyal party work, he was appointed assessor at the highest court of the Oklahoma teretorium and as a district judge in the Third District.

Seay regularly roamed the district holding court. Its territory, which was vast and poorly organized, stretched from the 98th to 100th meridians and from Kansas to Texas .

After his tenure as governor , the single man stayed in Kingfisher and invested in many different businesses. He also worked as a committed Republican and campaign assistant in his former judges' district. After an accident in 1903 he was plagued by many ailments and he spent his retirement years receiving medical care in Long Beach, California .

Political activity

In 1892 he became governor and actively promoted the local economy. In particular, he was committed to the settlement of Oklahoma and oversaw the opening of the previously protected Indian areas. He has been criticized for his concern for African Americans . For example, he still called for schools to be separated into white and black, but with the same qualified training that was given to whites.

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SURNAME Seay, Abraham Jefferson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1832
PLACE OF BIRTH Amherst , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1915
Place of death Long Beach , California