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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2025. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference. January 2025 1 Viktor Alksnis, 74, Russian politician ...
Stratford is the self-proclaimed Peach Capital of the World. Stratford was originally the town of McGee, which was established in 1891. [5] At the time, it was part of Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation [6] in an unorganized geographic region of the United States known as Indian Territory [7] In 1906 the Oklahoma Central Railroad built the railroad two miles south of McGee. [5]
Garvin County is a county in south-central Oklahoma, United States.As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,656. [2] Its county seat is Pauls Valley. [3] In 1906, delegates to Constitution Convention formed Garvin County from part of the Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory.
Carl Albert (1908–2000), Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1977; born in McAlester, reared in Bugtussle, Oklahoma; Bob Ballinger (born 1974), Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives; reared in Tulsa; Dewey F. Bartlett, Sr. (1919–1979), Oklahoma governor and U.S. senator
A Jordanian-American man traveling from his home in Oklahoma City to visit family in Jordan on April 19, 1995, was detained and questioned by the FBI at the airport. Several Arab-American groups criticized the FBI for racial profiling , and the subsequent media coverage for publicizing the man's name.
The First National Bank Building in Stratford, Oklahoma, at 100 West Main, was built in 1907.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. [1]It is a two-story brick building with a patterned metal hipped roof, with two gabled dormers and six brick chimneys and two "small metal towerets and an ornamented ridge cap", as well as a two-story turret.
The Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma (or Absentee Shawnee [2]) is one of three federally recognized tribes of Shawnee people. [3] Historically residing in what became organized as the upper part of the Eastern United States, the original Shawnee lived in the large territory now made up of Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and neighboring states.
Pickett is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. [2] The CDP is in west-central Pontotoc County, along Oklahoma State Highway 19, which leads east 5 miles (8 km) to Ada, the county seat, and west 10 miles (16 km) to Stratford.