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Keeler was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1966. [12] He died in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, on August 24, 1987, after four years of failing health. [1] The W. W. Keeler Complex in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, is the seat of Cherokee tribal government, and was named in honor of the late chief. The executive and legislative branches are located ...
In 1971 an election was held. Principal Chief and incumbent, W.W. Keeler, who had been appointed by President Harry Truman in 1949, was elected. The constitution of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma was drafted in 1975 and ratified on June 26, 1976. [2] A new constitution was ratified in 2003 with the name of the tribe changed to simply "Cherokee ...
William Henry Keeler (March 4, 1931 – March 23, 2017) was an American cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Baltimore , Maryland, from 1989 to 2007 and was elevated to the College of Cardinals in 1994.
William Henry Keeler (March 3, 1872 – January 1, 1923), nicknamed "Wee Willie" because of his small stature, was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1892 to 1910, primarily for the Baltimore Orioles and Brooklyn Superbas in the National League, and the New York Highlanders in the American League.
While W.W. Keeler served as Chief of the Cherokee Nation, he also was Chairman of the TCAB Executive Committee. The TCAB was formed as a political organization in 1871 by William Penn Adair and Clement Neely Vann, for descendants of the Texas Cherokees and the Mount Tabor Community. They wanted to gain redress from treaty violations, stemming ...
Sarah Warren Keeler (1844-1899), American educator of the deaf-mute; William Henry Keeler (1931–2017), American Catholic archbishop and cardinal; W. W. Keeler, Chief of the Cherokee Nation, president of Philips Petroleum; Willie Keeler, Major League Baseball player; Jennifer Keeler-Milne, Australian artist
The Bowl (also Chief Bowls); John Watts Bowles (Cherokee: Di'wali) (ca. 1756 – July 16, 1839) was one of the leaders of the Chickamauga Cherokee during the Cherokee–American wars, served as a Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation–West, and was a leader of the Texas Cherokees (Tshalagiyi nvdagi).
He is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and served as Principal Chief [2] from 1975 to 1985, when he resigned to accept the position of Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, a bureau within the U.S. Department of the Interior.