George W. Bellamy

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George W. Bellamy (December 1867 , Missouri , † 1920 ) was an American politician . Between 1907 and 1911 he was lieutenant governor of the state of Oklahoma .

Career

George Bellamy was born in Missouri in 1867 to William Henry and Mary Jane Bellamy. He later moved to the area of ​​the future state of Oklahoma, where he married Lou Blanche Jones in Stillwater in 1894 , with whom he was to have a daughter. His wife died in 1900. He worked as a pharmacist and in the meantime became secretary of the Oklahoma Pharmacists Association .

Politically, Bellamy joined the Democratic Party . In 1904 and 1912 he took part as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions . In 1907 he was elected the first lieutenant governor of the new state of Oklahoma alongside Charles N. Haskell . He held this office between 1907 and 1911. He was Deputy Governor and Chairman of the State Senate . He died in 1920. The exact date and place of death have not been recorded.

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